"Triste" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mi padre es mi abuelo. La madre de mi padre es mi abuela. Ellos viven todavia. Ellos son mis abuelos paternos. Mis abuelos maternos no viven, han muerto. Mi abuelo paterno es siempre feliz y alegre. Mi abuela paterna esta triste porque esta enferma. Mi abuelo paterno me cuenta muchos ...
— A First Spanish Reader • Erwin W. Roessler and Alfred Remy
... c'est-a-dire, depuis le retour de mon voyage. Les scrupules que vous faites touchant l'echange des livres, ont ete leves par vous-meme dans l'instant que vous en avez faites la proposition. Mais, malheureusement, la lettre qui devait apporter la confirmation du Prelat, n'a apportee que la triste nouvelle de sa mort. Vous sentez bien, que des ce moment il ne sauroit plus etre question de rien. Je ne doute pas, que quoique aucun livre ancien ne soit jusqu'a ce moment sorti de la Bibliotheque du Couvent, ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... actually arrived at Villejuif, only 6 miles from the capital; when he heard the result he turned about and appeared again at Fontainebleau at 9 the next morning. When he alighted, the person who handed him out, a sort of head-porter of the Palace, who was our guide, told me he looked "triste, bien triste"; he spoke to nobody, went upstairs as fast as he could, and then called for his plans and maps; his occupation during the whole time he staid consisted in writing and looking over papers, but to what ...
— Before and after Waterloo - Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802;1814;1814) • Edward Stanley
... de lune triste et beau, Qui fait rever les oiseaux dans les arbres, Et sangloter d'extase les jets d'eau, Les grands jets ...
— Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa • Edward Hutton
... not had already painful experience of the heat of the day, the donkey who lives below, in the court of the Palazzo Mignanelli, exhibits it most strikingly; there he stands, a fine subject for Pinelli, with a wo-begone countenance,—Sancho's ass not more triste—ruminating over a heap of fresh vegetables, which he feebly snuffs, and wants resolution to stoop his head and munch; whilst his adopted friend, the large house-dog, totally regardless of his charge, sleeps heavily in the opposite corner ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. • Various
... publication. Especially when not about Public Men, but about their Families. It is slaying the Innocent with the Guilty. But of all this you have doubtless heard in London more than enough. 'Pauvre et triste humanite!' One's heart opens again to him at the last: sitting alone in the middle of her Room—'I want to die'—'I want—a Mother.' 'Ah, Mamma Letizia!' Napoleon is said to have murmured as he lay. By way of pendant to this, recurs to me the Story that when Ducis was wretched his mother ...
— Letters of Edward FitzGerald to Fanny Kemble (1871-1883) • Edward FitzGerald
... foy, amigos, que nesta triste carreyra desta vida pera os mui perigosos perigos dos immigos ouuesse alg[u]a maneyra de guarida. 2 Porque a humana transitoria natureza vay cansada em varias calmas nesta carreyra da gloria meritoria foi necessario pensada pera as almas. [p] Pousada com ...
— Four Plays of Gil Vicente • Gil Vicente
... nous eumes cesse nos ebats, Laurent, en ce triste repaire Pour le disposer au trepas, Voit entrer Monsieur le Vicaire. Apres un sinistre regard, Le front de sa main il se frotte, Disant tout haut, "Venez plus tard!" Et tout has, "Vilaine calotte!" Puis son verre ...
— Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs - and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] • John S. Farmer
... specimen of his vituperative ability his denunciation of Marcion may be quoted—"Sed nihil tam barbarum ac triste apud Pontum quam quod illic Marcion natus est, Scythia tetrior, Hamaxobio instabilior, Massageta inhumanior, Amazona audacior, nubilo obscurior, hieme frigidior, gelu fragilior, Istro fallacior, Caucaso abruptior."—Adversus Marcionem, lib. i. ...
— The Ancient Church - Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution • W.D. [William Dool] Killen
... formed too low an estimate of the benefits to be derived from a thoughtful study of the religions of mankind when he writes of Buddhism: 'Le seul, mais immense service que le Bouddhisme puisse nous rendre, c'est par son triste contraste de nous faire apprecier mieux encore la valeur inestimable de nos croyances, en nous montrant tout ce qu'il en coute a l'humanite qui ne les partage point.' This is not all. If a knowledge of other countries and a study of the manners and ...
— Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I - Essays on the Science of Religion • Friedrich Max Mueller
... ferita del povero tuo core ho riaperto! Tu m'hai detto che hai l'anima triste! Un fratello amato Un caro fidanzato La Silvia t'ha rubato! Non temi sol per me, tu sei gelosa! I will obey you. But if it should happen ...
— Zanetto and Cavalleria Rusticana • Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti, Guido Menasci, and Pietro Mascagni |
