"Fondue" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... lovers with a ring of sapphire and silver. To translate Theocritus, wrote Sainte-Beuve, is as if one sought to carry away in one's hand a patch of snow that has lain forgotten through the summer in a cranny of the rocks of AEtna:—'On a fait trois pas a peine, que cette neige deja est fondue. On est heureux s'il en reste assez du moins pour donner le vif sentiment de la fraicheur.' But Mr. Lang has so rendered into English the graces of the loveliest of Dorian singers that he has earned the thanks of every lover of true literature. Every one ...
— Views and Reviews - Essays in appreciation • William Ernest Henley |
