"Envie" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "la dame a dit: 'Si le baron Kerver a vraiment envie que j'accepte son invitation, dites-lui de venir ...
— Contes et lgendes - 1re Partie • H. A. Guerber
... alle; God grante it mote wel befalle 340 Towardes him which hath the trowthe. Bot ofte is sen that mochel slowthe, Whan men ben drunken of the cuppe, Doth mochel harm, whan fyr is uppe, Bot if somwho the flamme stanche; And so to speke upon this branche, Which proud Envie hath mad to springe, Of Scisme, causeth forto bringe This newe Secte of Lollardie, And also many an heresie 350 Among the clerkes in hemselve. It were betre dike and delve And stonde upon the ryhte feith, ...
— Confessio Amantis - Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins, 1330-1408 A.D. • John Gower
... dominate the capital. The Russian revolution was, in fact, as much forced upon the Russian people as war was forced upon ourselves and America. Le peuple, wrote Sully three centuries ago, ne se soulve jamais par envie d'attaquer, mais par impatience de souffrir; and in Russia even hunger and Protopopov barely provoked the people to action. The revolution occurred not so much because they rose, as because the bureaucracy fell, and it ...
— A Short History of the Great War • A.F. Pollard
... escape from idleness; the Spaniards do; and, according to the French account, John Bull, the 'squire, hangs himself in the month of November; but the French, who are a very sensible people, attribute the action, "a une grande envie de se desennuyer;" he wishes to be doing something, say they, and having nothing better to do, he has recourse to ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow
... to understand; faire —, to give to understand. enti-er, -re, whole. entraner, to sweep on, away. entre, between, among, in, above. entre, f., entrance. envelopper, to wrap. envenim, venomous. envi; l'—, vieing with one another. envie, f., envy; porter — , to envy. envier, to envy. environner, to surround. envisager, to review, consider. envoyer, to send, send forth. pars, scattered. perdu, bewildered, helpless. pier, to spy. plor, ...
— Esther • Jean Racine
... venait de finir son long somme; sommeil de six mois seulement. "N'as-tu pas honte, lui dit l'homme, de dormir si profondement?—Tu n'en parles que par envie, repondit la marmotte, et tu me fais pitie. J'aime encore mieux dormir la moitie de ma vie, que d'en perdre en plaisirs comme ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann
... donne, 400 And thoughts of men do as themselves decay; But wise wordes taught in numbers for to runne, Recorded by the Muses, live for ay; Ne may with storming showers be washt away, Ne bitter-breathing windes with harmfull blast, 405 Nor age, nor envie, shall them ...
— The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 • Edmund Spenser
... thing, we confesse, worthie to have bene wished, that the author himselfe had liv'd to have set forth and overseen his owne writings; but since it hath bin ordain'd otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envie his friends the office of their care and paine to have collected and publish'd them; and so to have publish'd them, as where (before) you were abus'd with diverse stolne and surreptitious copies, maimed and deformed by the frauds and stealthes of injurious impostors that expos'd ...
— The Facts About Shakespeare • William Allan Nielson
... la meme dont je me suis servi depuis pour tirer de la tour de Segovie le seigneur de Santillane, ayant envie de rendre service a Don Ignacio, engagea sa maitresse a demander pour lui un benefice an Duc de Lerme. Ce ministre le fit nommer a l'archidiaconat de Granade, lequel etant en pays conquis; est a la ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various
... L'envie de me rendre utile, dont tout citoyen doit tre anim, m'a fait entreprendre l'ouvrage que je prsente au Public. S'il a le bonheur de mriter son approbation, quoiqu'il y ait peu de gloire attache au travail ingrat et fastidieux d'un Traducteur, je ...
— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing
... le Plaisir de Paris! Je vais vers les Amantes—que le Desir tourmente! Je vais, cherchant les coeurs qu'oubli a le bonheur. La-bas glanant le Rire, ici semant l'Envie, Prechant partout le droit de tous a la folie; Je suis le Procureur de la grande Cite! Ton humble ...
— Max • Katherine Cecil Thurston
... him all! Yes, sair, he shall write him six time more dan all, if la France a besoin. Que l'envie de ces Anglais se decouvre quand on parle des beaux genies ...
— The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas • James Fenimore Cooper |
