 | Auguste Levasseur - 1829 - 236 oldal
...to describe the majesty of this procession towards the city. The sea was covered with boats of eve* Where can one be better than in the bosom of his family ? Th» quartetto of Gretry is a great favourite among the French national air.v and is always played... | |
 | Ebenezer Mack - 1841 - 396 oldal
...of musick struck up the favourite French air, " Ou peut-on etre mieux qu'au sein de safamille" — Where can one be better than in the bosom of his family ? The immense flotilla, splendid and imposing beyond the power of language to describe, moved forward... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1843 - 1252 oldal
...road from Krasnoi to Liady, and prolong his left as far as the Dnieper; by which means the only line of retreat would have been barred to Napoleon, and...were the reasons which they urged, and so evident the disorganization of the French army, from the appearance and reports of the prisoners who were brought... | |
 | Ebenezer Mack - 1843 - 392 oldal
...band of music struck up the favorite French air, " Ou- peut-on etre mieux qu'au sein de safamille" — Where can one be better than in the bosom of his family ? The immense flotilla, splendid and imposing beyond the power of language to describe,. moved forward... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1856 - 396 oldal
...welcome which his faltering tongue refused to speak. For four days he remained in New York ; on the ""Where can one be better than in the bosom of his family." 20th, he left for Boston, attended by a large concourse of citizens, who thronged his way for miles.... | |
 | Louis Constant Wairy - 1900 - 474 oldal
...devotion and love of thousands of men to one. When the fire was hottest, the band played the air, " Where can one be better than in the bosom of his family?" Napoleon interrupted them, exclaiming, " Play rather, Let us watch over the safety of the Empire."... | |
 | Leander Jan De Bekker - 1909 - 774 oldal
...the peculiar song of the House of Bourbon. The words, taken from Gre'try's " Lucile," 1769, mean: " Where can one be better than in the bosom of his family?" Ouragan. Alfred Bruneau's fouract lyric drama, to book by Emile Zola, was first performed April 29,... | |
 | Louis Charles Elson - 1912 - 406 oldal
...the peculiar song of the House of Bourbon. The words, taken from Grétry's " Lucile," 1769. mean: " Where can one be better than in the bosom of his family?" Ouragan. Alfred Bruneau'a fouract lyric drama, to book by Emile Zola, was first performed April 29,... | |
 | Leander Jan De Bekker - 1924 - 784 oldal
...the peculiar song of the House of Bourbon. The words, taken from Grétry's " Lucile," 1769, mean: " Where can one be better than in the bosom of his family ? " OURAGAN. Alfred Bruneau's fouract lyric drama, to book by Emile Zola, was first performed April... | |
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MIEUX QU'AU SEIN DE SA FAMILLE " became a favourite song of the French Royalists during the Revolution, and is still regarded as the peculiar song of the House of Bourbon. The words, taken from Grétry's " Lucile," 1769, mean: " Where can one be better... 
