"Tendre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... importable, A bonde of sorowe, a knott vnremuwable. For whoo is bounde or locked in maryage, Yif he beo olde, he falleth in dotage, And yong folkes, of theyre lymes sklendre, Grene and lusty, and of brawne but tendre, Phylosophres callen in suche aage A Chylde to wyve, a woodnesse or a ...
— The Disguising at Hertford • John Lydgate
... fois fus sur toutes femmes belle Mais par la mort suis devenue telle Machair estoit tres-belle fraische & tendre O'r est elle ...
— A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) • Philip Thicknesse
... the "tendre" country. The original map was inserted by Mdlle. de Scudery in her novel of "Clelie," Paris, 1654, et seq., 10 vols., 8vo, vol. i. p. 399. It was a map drawn by Clelia and sent by her to Herminius, and which "showed how to go from New Friendship to Tender." It was reproduced in ...
— The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare • J. J. Jusserand
... tendre et rveur, Erreur! L'amour dans le bruit et le vin! Divin! Que d'un brlant dsir Votre coeur s'enflamme Aux fivres du plaisir Consumez votre me Transports d'amour, Durez un jour! Au diable celui qui pleure Pour deux beaux yeux A nous l'ivresse meilleure Des chants joyeux! ...
— The Tales of Hoffmann - Les contes d'Hoffmann • Book By Jules Barbier; Music By J. Offenbach
... the sorwes and the teres Of olde folk, and folk of tendre years In all the toun for deth of this Theban: For him, ther wepeth bothe child and man: So gret a weping was there non certain, When Hector was ybrought, all fresh yslain To Troy: alas! the pitee that was there, Cratching of chekes, rending eke of here. Why woldest ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845 • Various
... longue souffrance, Et le cruel destin dont je subis la loy, Il est encor des biens pour moy, Le tendre amour ...
— In Chteau Land • Anne Hollingsworth Wharton
... him. Decidedly, it was better not to risk a quarrel with her, to be patient, to wait for her return. He spent his days in poring over a map of the forest of Compiegne, as though it had been that of the 'Pays du Tendre'; he surrounded himself with photographs of the Chateau of Pierrefonds. When the day dawned on which it was possible that she might return, he opened the time-table again, calculated what train she must have taken, ...
— Swann's Way - (vol. 1 of Remembrance of Things Past) • Marcel Proust |
