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"Heloise" Quotes from Famous Books

... love-sick sister Ingrid, this Vadstene's Heloise, writes to her heart's beloved, Axel Nilsun—for the chronicles have preserved ...

— Pictures of Sweden • Hans Christian Andersen

... Beyond Byron and the Angel Change Charge of the "Black-Horse" Charge of Fremont's Body-Guard Charity Chickadee Christmas Eve [Illustrated] Daniel Do They Think of Us? Dust to Dust Fame Fido Gettysburg: Charge of the First Minnesota Heloise Hope Hurrah for the Volunteers! Isabel Lines on the Death of Captain Coats Love will Find Mauley [Illustrated] Men Minnetonka [Illustrated] Mrs. McNair My Dead My Father-Land My Heart's on the Rhine Night ...

— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon

... green and open fields of the country. One reads upon the tombs, however, the familiar historic names with vivid interest, such as Rossini, Moliere, Scribe, Alfred de Musset, Talma, Arago, and others. One remarkable tomb attracts us; it is that of Abelard and Heloise, upon which some hand has just placed fresh flowers. One cannot but respect the sentiment which would perpetuate the memory of this hero and heroine of seven hundred years ago. There are sixty thousand tombs, mausoleums, and ...

— Foot-prints of Travel - or, Journeyings in Many Lands • Maturin M. Ballou

... fairer than the fairest heroine of a novel," he thought. "She is like Heloise. Yes, the quaint old French fits ...

— Birds of Prey • M. E. Braddon

... of it, and they got enjoyment and profit from this. They knew that they were working for posterity. "Posterity will repeat our names like those of the immortal lovers whose two names are only one at present, like Romeo and Juliette, like Heloise and Abelard. People will never speak of one of us without speaking ...

— George Sand, Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings • Rene Doumic

Words linked to "Heloise" : mother superior, abbess, prioress