Excerpt from The Writings of Madame Swetchine Under the auspices of' this simple flower, I have placed the following thoughts. They, too, have ripened under the snows, and taken their hue, like this little red berry, from the fires of the interior sun. The most of them were committed to writing during the winter of 1811, which I passed in the country, in profound retirement. They are utterances which sprang from my own heart, but reached no other; impressions which clothed themselves in images to people my solitude. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.