"Saint John" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... announced to the people by the sudden ascent of a balloon, from which fireworks were discharged. At half-past nine they reached the Htel de Ville. Nearly a thousand persons had gathered in the concert hall, almost three thousand in the record room, the Hall of Saint John, and in the semicircular place in front, opposite the spot, on the left bank of the Seine, where the fireworks were to be set off at a signal of Napoleon and Marie Louise. These fireworks were divided into three parts, representing a military scene, the Temple of Peace, and ...
— The Happy Days of the Empress Marie Louise • Imbert De Saint-Amand
... useless in a household. Unbelievers do not like music—a celestial language, developed by Catholicism, which has taken the names of the seven notes from one of the church hymns; every note being the first syllable of the seven first lines in the hymn to Saint John. ...
— Ursula • Honore de Balzac
... night before Saint John's, In the fullness of the moon, When that wild and spectral hunt Fills the ...
— Atta Troll • Heinrich Heine
... reciprocal. He who loves knows. He who knows loves. Saint John is the example of the first; ...
— Daily Thoughts - selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife • Charles Kingsley |
