Eastern Europe and the Emperor Nicholas, Nide 2T. C. Newby, 1846 |
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Sivu 128 - Where, in his loneliness forgetting His broken sword, his ruin'd throne, With bitter grief, with vain regretting, On his fair Boy he mused alone. But shame, and curses without number, Upon that reptile head be laid, Whose insults now shall vex the slumber Of him — that sad discrowned shade ! No ! for his trump the signal sounded, Her glorious race when Russia ran ; His hand, 'mid strife and battle, founded Eternal liberty for man ! The next specimen for which we have to request the indulgence of...
Sivu 268 - IS37 and l!^5, after such treatment as nothing but the most conclusive evidence would render credible. Of the fourteen that remained, eight had either had their eyes torn out, or their limbs broken, and of the other six only four had strength to attempt, and fortune to effect their escape. If any doubts could be entertained of the truth of the minute and circumstantial account of the sufferings of these women, the assurance which, as Lord Aberdeen stated in his place in Parliament, the Emperor gave...
Sivu 268 - ... beside them, when the long protraction of seven years of suffering is considered. All the details of this inhuman persecution might have remained either utterly unknown beyond the Russian frontier, or merged in vague rumours of cruel treatment, but for the providential escape of four of the sufferers. To sum the facts briefly up, between the years 1837 and 1845, forty-four nuns perished at the hands of the Russian authorities, out of fiftyeight devoted to duties whose fulfilment appeals so directly...
Sivu 268 - Of the fourteen who remained, eight had either their eyes torn out or their limbs broken ; and out of the other six, only four had strength to attempt, or fortune to effect, their escape. A few more months, and the whole surviving fourteen, at last doomed to Siberia, might have been expiring on that weary road which the ten unhappy creatures left behind by the fugitives are at this moment (1846) being dragged or driven over, all lamed, blind, or ailing.
Sivu 145 - Gogol, and other petty writers, have followed in this respect in the footsteps of the veteran Kriloff. But though the genius of Kriloff is essentially caustic and satirical, he has always been restrained by prudential considerations ; and ever alarmed at his own daring, where he has shown any boldness in one of his fables, he directly publishes another which contains some common-place moral, palatable to the absolute spirit of his government. The author has not KrilofFs fables before him, and speaks...
Sivu 280 - After two more years' captivity of the fifty-eight nuns (thirty-four from Minsk, fourteen from Vitepsk, and ten from Polock,) only fourteen survived, and of these eight were either lame or blinded. The superior, Irena Mieceslas, who had fared the best, had an open wound, from which she was obliged to extract with her fingers the carious bones, and which afterwards becoming filled with worms, from want of dressing, caused her intense agony. At length some relaxation of vigilance having opened a prospect...
Sivu 274 - ... women — fifty-seven — were now brought up twice a week, on Wednesdays and Fridays, before a commission of the Russian authorities and clergy, and flogged before them, receiving fifty strokes a-piece. This was continued for months together, till the wounds upon their backs were an open sore, and pieces of the scabs, and then of the raw flesh, adhered to the instruments of torture. Three of their number died beneath this infliction. They were then fed on salt herrings, and refused drink (a...
Sivu 194 - There is no beast in the forest, no living thing in the air, which does not hasten up to the singer of Runes, to listen to his melodious voice, to revel in the harmony of his song. " The wolf quits the sedges in which he was prowling ; the bear emerges from his den in the roots of an overturned pine-tree ; they climb a hedge, the hedge is borne down by their weight ; the one ascends the trunk of the pine, the other climbs a birch-tree, whilst Wainamoinen sings and gives birth to joy ; the eagle descends...
Sivu 276 - Buckzynski by name, all upwards of seventy years of age, were at last, in the full severity of winter, stripped and placed under a pump, where, as the water was poured over them, it gradually congealed into a mass of ice, and froze them to death ; another, named the...