"Vers" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thus I am constrenyt, as neir I may, To hald his vers & go nane other way, Les sum history, subtill word, or the ryme Causith me make digressione ...
— Early Theories of Translation • Flora Ross Amos
... vers Quechuas, Introd., p. xxxvi (Paris, 1878). There was a class of diviners in Peru who foretold the future by inspecting the fat of animals; they were called Vira-piricuc. Molina, Fables ...
— American Hero-Myths - A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent • Daniel G. Brinton
... enfant de la patrie, La jour de gloire est arrive. De la Paix, de la Paix cherie, L'etendard brillant est leve! (bis) Entendez-vous vers nos frontieres, Tous les peuples ouvrant leurs bras, Crier a nos braves soldats: Soyons unis, nous sommes freres! Plus d'armes, citoyens, rompez vos bataillons! Chantez, Chantons! Et que la Paix feconde ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. • Various
... de la Revolution d'Amerique, une des foudroyantes proclamations du roi d'Angleterre excita de vives discussions dans une societe a Philadelphie. II y avait un membre du congres qui ecoutait les debats sans y prendre part. Il se tourne vers une jeune personne qui paraissait y prendre beaucoup d'interet, et lui dit: "Eh bien! mademoiselle, les rugissements du lion anglais, ont-ils porte la terreur dans votre ame?—Point du tout, monsieur, car j'ai appris dans l'histoire ...
— French Conversation and Composition • Harry Vincent Wann
... Dr. Englaender points out (Mazeppa, 1897, p. 73), it is probable that Byron derived his general conception of the scenery of the Ukraine from passages in Voltaire's Charles XII., e.g.: "Depuis Grodno jusqu'au Borysthene, en tirant vers l'orient ce sont des marais, des deserts, des forets immenses" (Oeuvres, 1829, xxiv. 170). The exquisite beauty of the virgin steppes, the long rich grass, the wild-flowers, the "diviner air," to which the Viscount de Voguee testifies so eloquently in his Mazeppa, were not in the "mind's ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 • Lord Byron
... threads and a piece of cloth, or a lump of clay and a jar, are distinctly not of one and the same kind. The difference of words supplies a second argument; nobody applies to mere threads the word 'piece of cloth,' or vice vers. A third argument rests on the difference of effects: water is not fetched from the well in a lump of clay, nor is a well built with jars. There, fourthly, is the difference of time; the cause is prior in time, the effect posterior. There is, fifthly, the difference of form: ...
— The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja - Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 • Trans. George Thibaut
... Vers. 4-15: "Parable of the Sower, and explanation," come on pp. 90-93, being composed of the narratives of the other two Evangelists interpolated with ...
— Little Gidding and its inmates in the Time of King Charles I. - with an account of the Harmonies • J. E. Acland
... full importance of what this great man did in this sphere one has only to read modern "libre vers." After Walt Whitman, Paul Fort, for instance, seems simply an eloquent prose writer. And none of them can get the trick of it. None of them! Somewhere, once, I heard a voice that approached it; a ...
— Visions and Revisions - A Book of Literary Devotions • John Cowper Powys
... Bourne? Surely not. Nor was Boileau so ignorant or tasteless as to be incapable of appreciating good modern Latin. In the very letter to which Johnson alludes, Boileau says—"Ne croyez pas pourtant que je veuille par la blamer les vers Latins que vous m'avez envoyes d'un de vos illustres academiciens. Je les ai trouves fort beaux, et dignes de Vida et de Sannazar, mais non pas d'Horace et de Virgile." Several poems, in modern Latin, have been praised by Boileau quite as liberally ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 2 • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... me—these joys assured, in calm repose, With trembling hope, I wait my end of woes. Long vers'd in sufferings, I no more complain, Nor shall one tear my former patience stain. Long, long, has time, slow rolling, swept away The dear companions of my earlier day; So long, that memory scarce their names retains, And blank oblivion o'er my bosom reigns. Ernestus, ...
— Gustavus Vasa - and other poems • W. S. Walker
... and first centuries B.C., the Roman dominion was spreading over Greek territory, and the structures erected subsequent to the conquest partake of the Roman character and mingle Roman conceptions with Greek details and vice vers. The temple of the Olympian Zeus at Athens (Fig. 39), amighty dipteral Corinthian edifice measuring 354 by 171 feet, standing on a vast terrace or temenos surrounded by a buttressed wall, was begun by Antiochus Epiphanes (170 B.C.) on the ...
— A Text-Book of the History of Architecture - Seventh Edition, revised • Alfred D. F. Hamlin
... d'un excellent ouvrage, Dedans un portrait racourcy, Representer le paisage Du petit Olympe d'Issy, Pourven que la grande princesse, La perle et fleur de l'univers, A qui cest ouvrage s'addresse, Veuille favoriser mes vers. ...
— Recollections of My Youth • Ernest Renan
... basse maree sur tout l'etendue des cotes. Art. 3.—Pour les baies, la mer territoriale suit les sinuosites de la cote, sauf qu'elle mesuree a partir d'une ligne droite tiree en travers de la baie, dans la partie la plus rapprochee de l'ouverture vers la mer, ou l'ecart entre les deux cotes de la baie est de douze milles marins de largeur, a moins qu'un usage continu et seculaire n'ait consacre une largeur plus grande. Art. 4.—En cas de guerre, l'etat riverain ...
— Letters To "The Times" Upon War And Neutrality (1881-1920) • Thomas Erskine Holland
... (says he) that a Diatessaron, Diapente, and Diapason have one to another in a Consort of Music: And that there was as great care requir'd, not to mingle [53]Sapores minime consentientes, jarring and repugnant Tastes; looking upon him as a lamentable Ignorant, who should be no better vers'd in Democritus. The whole Scene is very diverting, as Athenaeus presents it; and to the same sense Macrobius, Saturn. lib. I. cap. I. In short, the main Skill of the ...
— Acetaria: A Discourse of Sallets • John Evelyn
... "Son ombre vers mon lit a paru se baisser Et moi, je lui tendais les mains pour l'embrasser; Mais je n'ai plus trouve q'un horrible melange D'os et de chair meurtris et traines dans la fange, Des lambeaux pleins de sang, et des membres affreux Que les chiens ...
— The Pit • Frank Norris
... battrai pas; je te cede la place. Si Venus est ma soeur, L'Amour est de ma race. Je sais faire des vers. Un instant de perdu N'offense pas ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... Henry III. frequently flattered him with their presence. Baif elaborated a system for regulating French versification by quantity. In this he was not a pioneer. Jacques de la Taille had written in 1562 the Maniere de faire des vers en francais comme en grec et en latin (printed 1573), and other poets had made experiments in the same direction. The 16th-century poets did not realize the [v.03 p.0215] incompatibility of the system of ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 - "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" • Various
... Europe. Permettez moi, madame, de vous remercier encore une fois do toutes vos bonts, de vous demander un peu de part dans votre souvenir, et laissez moi vous dire que mes voeux se porteront dans tous les terns de ma vie vers vous, vers le capitaine, vers vos enfans. Vous allez avoir en Amrique un serviteur bien zl; je ne reviendrai pas en Europe sans arriver dans le Surrey: tout ce qui, pour mon esprit et pour mon coeur, a ...
— The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay Volume 3 • Madame D'Arblay
... dem blauen Schleier sein? Er trumte sich in den Gedanken hinein und zuletzt ward[7-13] der Schleier bei seiner Flatterhaftigkeit[7-14] festgehalten und mittelst einer Stecknadel ihm ein beschriebener Zettel angesteckt. Der Vers war von den dreien ...
— Eingeschneit - Eine Studentengeschichte • Emil Frommel
... des Femmes." He wrote two comedies—"L'Oublieux" in 1691, and "Les Fontanges." These were not printed till 1868. They added nothing to his reputation. Between 1691 and 1697 were composed the immortal "Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passe" and the "Contes en Vers." Toward the end of his life he busied himself with the "Eloges des Hommes Illustres du Siecle de Louis XIV." The first of these two stately volumes came out in 1696 and the second in 1700. They were illustrated by a hundred and ...
— The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault • Charles Perrault
... Fir'd by this wish, His country left, he journey'd to the town Of him, who erst was great Alcides' host: And as he sought to learn what founder first These Grecian walls rear'd on Italia's shore, Thus an old 'habitant, well vers'd in tales Of yore, reply'd.—"Jove's son, rich in the herds "Iberia bred, his prosperous journey bent "By ocean unto fair Lacinia's shores: "Enter'd himself the hospitable roof "Of mighty Croto, while his cattle' stray'd "Amid the tender ...
— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid
... Dryden condemns: "Il semble qu'on entende Henriette d'Angleterre elle-meme parlant au marquis de Vardes. La politesse de la cour de Louis XIV., l'agrement de la langue Francaise, la douceur de la versification la plus naturelle, le sentiment le plus tendre, tout se trouve dans ce peu de vers." After Dryden had broken away from the heroic style, he speaks out more plainly. In the Preface to his "All for Love," in reply to some cavils upon "little, and not essential decencies," the decision about which he refers to a master of ceremonies, ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell
... regime flourished, is worth your perusal. A particularly good version of this tale is rendered by Baron Vaerst in his book "Gastrosophie," Leipzig, 1854, who has based his version on the original translation from the Greek, entitled, Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu du quatrieme siecle avant l'ere vulgaire par J. J. Barthelemy, Paris, 1824. Vaerst has amplified the excerpts from the young traveler's observations by quotations from other ancient Greek writers upon the subject, thus giving us a most beautiful and authentic ...
— Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome • Apicius
... traitements furent d'abord plus rares que les mauvais precedes, ainsi les imputations d'imbecillite, de stupidite, furent prodiguees a Madame D——- le droit de raisonner, de prendre l'art a la conversation lui fut interdit... des relations avec d'autres femmes furent connues de l'epouse,et vers le mois de Decembre, 1828, ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks
... come! Thou smiledst; on that circling, which in thee Seem'd as reflected splendour, while I mus'd; For I therein, methought, in its own hue Beheld our image painted: steadfastly I therefore por'd upon the view. As one Who vers'd in geometric lore, would fain Measure the circle; and, though pondering long And deeply, that beginning, which he needs, Finds not; e'en such was I, intent to scan The novel wonder, and trace out the form, How to the ...
— The Divine Comedy, Complete - The Vision of Paradise, Purgatory and Hell • Dante Alighieri
... in Nyons kept goats for milk, and, quaintly enough, they fed them on the dried mulberry leaves the silkworms had left over. For every one reared silkworms too, a most lucrative industry. The French speak of "making" silkworms (faire des vers-a-soie). Lucrative as it is, it would never succeed in England even if the white mulberry could be induced to grow, for successful silkworm rearing demands such continual watchfulness and meticulous attention as only French people can give; English people ...
— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton
... largely of "Case 1, a young man of 28," "Case 2, a woman of thirty," etc. These things were instructive, and sometimes interesting. But when "Case 1" is expanded to a novel of three or four hundred pages, or "Case 2" expressed in the form of hectic vers libre, a feeling of lassitude comes o'er us which is more ...
— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor
... priai M. de Breme de m'introduire a Lord Byron, je me trouvai le lendemain a diner chez M. de Breme, avec lui, et le celebre Monti, l'immortel auteur de la Basvigliana. On parla poesie, on en vint a demander quels etaient les douze plus beaux vers faits depuis un siecle, en Francais, en Italien, en Anglais. Les Italiens presens s'accorderent a designer les douze premiers vers de la Mascheroniana de Monti, comme ce que l'on avait fait de plus beau dans leur langue, ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. III - With His Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore
... form the main skeleton of the island. M. Bailly ("Voyage aux Terres Australes" tome 1 page 54.) states that they all "se developpent autour d'elle comme une ceinture d'immenses remparts, toutes affectant une pente plus ou moins enclinee vers le rivage de la mer; tandis, au contraire, que vers le centre de l'ile elles presentent une coupe abrupte, et souvent taillee a pic. Toutes ces montagnes sont formees de couches paralleles inclinees du centre de l'ile vers la mer." These statements have been disputed, though not ...
— Volcanic Islands • Charles Darwin
... The Talk, the Pride, and Envy of the Town is Lady Rodomont, whose Wit surprizes, whose Beauty ravishes, and a clear Estate of Six thousand a Year distracts the admiring Train; but the Misfortune is, she has Travell'd, had Experience, well vers'd in Gallantries of various Courts; she admits Coquets, and rallies each Pretender, so resolutely fond of Liberty, she slights the most accomplish'd of Mankind, there Collonel is a Siege to prove a ...
— The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) • Thomas Baker
... Cases a rendu compte a l'Empereur de la conversation qu'il a eue ce matin a votre bord. S. M. se rendra a la maree de demain, vers quatre ou cinq heures du matin, a bord de votre vaisseau. Je vous envoye Monsieur le Comte de Las Cases, Conseiller d'Etat, faisant fonction de Marechal de Logis, avec la liste des personnes composant la suite de S. M. Si l'Amiral, ...
— The Surrender of Napoleon • Sir Frederick Lewis Maitland
... "Yankee Frenchman" resembled such a typical eighteenth century figure as Voltaire. Like Voltaire, he was tolerant—except toward Calvinism and Homeopathy. In some of the tricks of his prose style he is like a kindlier Sterne. His knack for vers de societe was caught from Horace, but he would not have been a child of his own age without the additional gift of rhetoric and eloquence which is to be seen in his patriotic poems and his hymns. For Holmes possessed, ...
— The American Spirit in Literature, - A Chronicle of Great Interpreters, Volume 34 in The - Chronicles Of America Series • Bliss Perry
... vers. 11, 12. 'She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house. Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait at every ...
— The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain • George Borrow
... Memorables de la Companie des Indes orientales des Provinces Unies vers les Empereurs du Japan, ...
— History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 - Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens • George W. Williams
... une autre maniere de filsoufes, et dient-il: 'Il n'est mie ne Diex ne Kerma ne courance vers le bien, ne Providence, ne Creerres, ne Sauvours, ne saintete ne pechies ne conscience de pechie, ne proyere ne response a proyere, il n'est nulle riens fors que trop minime grain ou paillettes qui ont a nom atosmes, et de tiex grains devient chose qui vive, et chose ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... xii. 212) describes this book as 'Une Philippique contre Dieu.' He wrote to M. Saurin:—'Ce maudit livre du Systeme de la Nature est un peche contre nature. Je vous sais bien bon gre de reprouver l'atheisme et d'aimer ce vers: "Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer." Je suis rarement content de mes vers, mais j'avoue que j'ai une tendresse de pere pour celui-la.' Ib. ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 5 • Boswell
... galement vers dans la plupart des matires sur lesquelles il importe le plus des tres raisonnables d'avoir une opinion arrte, M. le baron d'Holbach portait dans leur discussion un jugement sain, une logique svre, et une analyse exacte et prcise. Quelque fut l'objet ...
— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing
... follows: "Cependant Mr. de la Salle continua son chemin par une riviere qui va de l'est a l'ouest; et passe a Onontaque (Onondaga), puis a six ou sept lieues au-dessous du Lac Erie; et estant parvenu jusqu'au 280me ou 83me degre de longitude, et jusqu'au 4lme degre de latitude, trouva un sault qui tombe vers l'ouest dans un pays has, marescageux, tout couvert de vielles souches, don't il y en a quelquesunes qui sont encore sur pied. Il fut done contraint de prendre terre, et suivant une hauteur qui le pouvoit mener loin, ...
— France and England in North America, a Series of Historical Narratives, Part Third • Francis Parkman
... silver-fire verse of L'Imitation de Notre-Dame la Lune, wherein he asks—Mais ou sont les Lunes d'Antan. This Pierrot lunaire, this buffoon of new and dusty eternities, wrote a sort of vers libres, which, often breaking off with a smothered sob, modulates into prose and sings the sorrows and complaints of a world peopled by fantastic souls, clowns, somnambulists, satyrs, poets, harlots, dainty girls, ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker
... the Trumpeter Swan, Cygnus buccinator. They were especially found in Sagard's time about Lake Nipissing. "Mais pour des Cignes, qu'ils appellent Horhev, il y en a principalement vers les Epicerinys." Vide Le Grand Voyage av Pays des Hurons par Fr. Gabriel Sagard, Paris, 1632, ...
— Voyages of Samuel de Champlain V3 • Samuel de Champlain
... November 1757).... I have been obliged to have the Abbe arrested [De Prades, of whom enough, long since]; he has been playing the spy, and I have many evident proofs of it. That is very infamous and very ungrateful.—I have made a prodigious quantity of verses (PRODIGIEUSEMENT DE VERS). If I live, I will show them you in Winter-quarters: if I perish, they are bequeathed to you, and I have ordered that they be put ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVIII. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great—Seven-Years War Rises to a Height.—1757-1759. • Thomas Carlyle
... Circumstances. His Language, especially his Prose, is full of Latin Words indeed, but much fuller of Latin Phrases: and his Mastery in the Tongue made this unavoidable. On the contrary, Shakespeare, who, perhaps, was not so intimately vers'd in the Language, abounds in the Words of it, but has few or none of its Phrases: Nor, indeed, if what I affirm be true, could He. This I take to be the truest Criterion to determine ...
— Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) • Lewis Theobald
... which he advised him by Messengers, not to oppose him in his march against Carchemish, are said to have proceeded from the mouth of God; and that Josiah not hearkning to them, was slain in the battle; as is to be read 2 Chron. 35. vers. 21,22,23. It is true, that as the same History is related in the first book of Esdras, not Pharaoh, but Jeremiah spake these words to Josiah, from the mouth of the Lord. But wee are to give credit to the Canonicall Scripture, whatsoever be written ...
— Leviathan • Thomas Hobbes
... que Thomas Brouart, qui demeure en sa maison, ayant appelle le fils de Collas Becquet, sorcier, il arriva qu'il fut un jour trouve au lict du djt Thomas grand nombre de vers, et les ayant le djt Sieur de Ljsle veus, les jugea comme une formioniere, tant estoyent mouvans et espais, et a peine en peuvent vuider le dit enfant, l'ayant mis en plusieurs endroits; qu'appres fut le djt enfant accueillis ...
— Witchcraft and Devil Lore in the Channel Islands • John Linwood Pitts
... de Rene Descartes sur un certain placard imprime aux Pays Bas vers la fin de l'annee, 1647.—Descartes, OEuvres. ...
— Hume - (English Men of Letters Series) • T.H. Huxley
... the crowns that are presented him. The "Papillotos" were formerly scattered in three costly volumes; they have now been collected in one handsome duodecimo, with an accompanying French translation of the principal pieces,—a translation which called from Ampere the remark,—"A defaut des vers de Jasmin, on ferait cent ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 7, Issue 41, March, 1861 • Various
... vers librist said. "Whatever pops into my head I write, and have but one small fetter: I start each line with a ...
— Something Else Again • Franklin P. Adams
... que nous puissions faire, Je souffre; il est trop tard; le monde s'est fait vieux. Une immense esperance a traverse la terre; Malgre nous vers le ciel il faut ...
— A Selection From The Lyrical Poems Of Robert Herrick • Robert Herrick
... Zier ist eine reine Freude dir. 20 Sie machen es mit vieler Ssse und messen gut der Verse Fsse, Ob kurz, ob lang sie mssen sein, auf dass es wrde glatt und fein. Auch darauf stets ihr Trachten geht, dass jede Silbe sicher steht, Und dass ein jeder Vers so klingt, wie jeder Versfuss es bedingt. Sie zhlen mit Genauigkeit die Lng' und Krze jeder Zeit, 25 Und sichre Grenzen sind gezogen, wonach das Silbenmass gewogen. Auch subern sie's mit rechter Reinheit und auch mit ausgesuchter Feinheit, So wie ein Mann mit Fleiss ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... many experiments have been made in America, and in Georgia particularly, and silk has been raised continuously for over a century, these diseases (maladies des vers a soile) have never ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 • Various
... last embrace; Strange to relate, from young Iulus' head A lambent flame arose, which gently spread Around his brows, and on his temples fed. Amaz'd, with running water we prepare To quench the sacred fire, and slake his hair; But old Anchises, vers'd in omens, rear'd His hands to heav'n, and this request preferr'd: 'If any vows, almighty Jove, can bend Thy will; if piety can pray'rs commend, Confirm the glad presage which thou art pleas'd to send.' Scarce had he said, when, on our left, we hear A peal of rattling thunder roll in air: There ...
— The Aeneid • Virgil
... L'Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers L'Empereur de la Chine, traduit par Jean le Charpentier ...
— The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer
... effets qui en resulterent.' (Ancien Regime, iii. i.) Thus Senac de Meilhan writes in 1795;—'C'est quand la Revolution a ete entamee qu'on a cherche dans Mably, dans Rousseau, des armes pour sustenter le systeme vers lequel entrainait l'effervescence de quelques esprits hardis. Mais ce ne sont point les auteurs que j'ai cites qui ont enflamme les tetes; M. Necker seul a produit cet effet, et determine l'explosion,' ...
— On Compromise • John Morley
... (1) Born at Boston, February 9, 1874. Educated at private schools. She has been prominently identified with the "Imagist" movement in poetry and with the technical use of 'vers libre'. These movements, however, were not yet influencing poetry when "The Little Book of Modern Verse" was edited, and Miss Lowell is, therefore, represented by a lyric in her earlier and less characteristic manner. ...
— The Little Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
... against mortal terror, and grasping with a feeble hand the word of God, and the memory of all his past deliverances. It is precisely this conflict of faith and fear which the psalm sets before us. It falls into three portions, the first and second of which are closed by a kind of refrain (vers. 4, 10, 11)—a structure which is characteristic of several of these Sauline persecution psalms (e.g., lvii. 5, 11; lix. 9, 17). The first part of each of these two portions is a vivid description of his danger, from which he rises to the faith expressed in the ...
— The Life of David - As Reflected in His Psalms • Alexander Maclaren
... j'ai appris par une estafette que les ennemis avaient joint l'Electeur de Baviere avec 26,000 hommes, et que M. de Villeroi a passe la Meuse avec la meilleure partie de l'armee des Pays Bas, et qu'il poussait sa marche en toute diligence vers la Moselle, de sorte que, sans un prompt secours, l'empire court risque d'etre entierement abime."—MARLBOROUGH, aux Etats Generaux; Bonn, 2 Mai ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 • Various
... words to say the right thing, one sometimes achieves the | | impossible, or, rather, from the flame of frantic friction | | (of 'Rhyming Dictionary' leaves) rises, phoenix-like, | | another idea, somewhat like the first, its illegitimate | | child, so to say, and thus more beautiful. | | | | "With vers libre one experiences the mortification one | | sometimes feels in having roared out one's agony in | | perfectly fit terms. With rhymed poetry one feels the | | satisfaction of a wit who gives the nuance of his meaning by | | ...
— The Principles of English Versification • Paull Franklin Baum
... ussere Form des Originals in allen Einzelheiten wiedergebe. Aber dieweil diese so mhsam an der Schale knacken, entschlpft ihnen nicht selten der Kern. Mein Bestreben war demnach keineswegs, z.B. jeden Vers ngstlich dem Originale nachzubilden, so dass die genaueste bereinstimmung zwischen der Silbenzahl und den Hebungen oder gar dem Klange der Verse Statt fnde. Das wre ohnehin, ohne der deutschen Sprache die schreiendste Gewalt anzuthun, unmglich gewesen. Ich habe vielmehr darnach ...
— The Translations of Beowulf - A Critical Biography • Chauncey Brewster Tinker
... de Grammont, par monsieur le comte Antoine Hamilton. Nouvelle edition, augmentee d'un discours preliminaire mele de prose et de vers, par le meme auteur, et d'un avertissement contenant quelques anecdotes de la vie du comte Hamilton. A Paris, chez la veuve Pissot, Quay de Conti, a la croix d'or. 1746." ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 • Various
... vu que le grand saint avait mis fin suivant les rites a son pieux sacrifice, les Dieux, Indra a leur tete, s'evanouissent dans le vide des airs et se rendent vers l' architecte des mondes, le souverain des creatures, le donateur des biens, vers Brahma enfin, auquel tous, les mains jointes, ils adressent les paroles suivantes: "O Brahma, un rakshasa, nomme Ravana, tourne su mal les graces, qu'il a recues de toi. Dans ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI
... planted trees, walked, read, loitered in his garden, and kept up his old friendships, while he made that of the great Gordon. Compliments passed between him and Victor Hugo, who had entertained Lionel Tennyson in Paris, and wrote: "Je lis avec emotion vos vers superbes; c'est un reflet de gloire que vous m'envoyez." Mr Matthew Arnold's compliment was very like Mr Arnold's humour: "Your father has been our most popular poet for over forty years, and I am of opinion that he fully deserves his reputation": such was "Mat's sublime waggery." Tennyson heaped ...
— Alfred Tennyson • Andrew Lang
... dans l'eglise l'armoire ou on enfermoit les livres, contre la coutume des autres monasteres de l'ordre, qui avoient cette armoire dans le cloitre. On y lit ces vers d'un caractere qui peut avoir ...
— The Care of Books • John Willis Clark
... vu le cheval rose ouvrir ses ailes d'or, Et, flairant le laurier que je tenais encor, Verdoyant a jamais, hier comme aujourd'hui, Se cabrer vers le Jour et ruer vers ...
— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse
... post, p. 177. For the despatches, &c., see G. Penn, Memorials of Penn, II. 322-333, 344-350. He also quotes a work published at Amsterdam in 1668 which says: 'Le Comte de Sandwich separa la flotte Hollandaise en deux vers l'une heure du midi.' He explains that by the order for the rear to tack first, Sandwich was leading, forgetting Coventry's despatch (ibid. p. 328), which tells how by that time the duke had taken Sandwich's place and was leading ...
— Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 - Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. • Julian S. Corbett
... ma chere Mam'selle Alide, que ce Monsieur le marin se fachait a cause de la gloire, et des beaux vers de notre ...
— The Water-Witch or, The Skimmer of the Seas • James Fenimore Cooper
... point, feeling shrouds and back-stays, and preventers, in order to ascertain the degree of strain on each, or examining how the purchases stood. As for the crew, they cheered at their toil, incessantly, passing from capstan bars to the handspikes, and vice vers. They, too, felt that their task was increasing in resistance as it advanced, and now found it more difficult to gain an inch, than it had been at first to gain a foot. They seemed, indeed, to be heaving their own vessel out, instead of heaving the other craft up, and ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper
... the Duc d'Orleans, of Charles IX., HE is traite en subalterne, and is jealous of a frocked or unfrocked manant like Maitre Francoys! And then this amazing Fleury falls foul of thine epitaph on Maitre Francoys and cries, "Ronsard a voulu faire des vers mechants; il n'a fait que de mechants vers." More truly saith M. Sainte-Beuve, "If the good Rabelais had returned to Meudon on the day when this epitaph was made over the wine, he would, methinks, have laughed heartily." But what shall be said of a Professor like the egregious M. Fleury, ...
— Letters to Dead Authors • Andrew Lang
... Still less do they mean those mental habits of suspicion, mystery and indirectness, which may infect communities as well as individuals. For these there is neither extenuation nor excuse. Rousseau has finely said: 'Le premier pas vers le vice est de mettre du mystere aux actions innocentes; et quiconque aime a se cacher, a tot ou tard raison de se cacher. Un seul precepte de morale peut tenir lieu de tous les autres, c'est celui-ci: Ne fais, ni ne dis jamais rien que tu ne veuilles que tout le monde voie et ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 - Volume 23, Number 4 • Various
... saint exemple Que la Ninon donne a tous les mondains, En se logeant avecque les nonais, Combien de pleurs la pauvre jouvencelle A repandus quand sa mere, sans elle, Cierges brulants et portant ecussons, Pretres chantant leurs funebres chanson, Voulut aller de linge enveloppee Servir aux vers ...
— Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos, - the Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century • Robinson [and] Overton, ed. and translation.
... a ce reveil du jour que Dieu renvoie, Vers un ciel qui sourit s'eleve sar sa joie, Et de ces dons nouveaux rendant grace au Seigneur, Murmure en s'eveillant son hymne interieur, Demande un jour de paix, de bonheur, d'innocence, Un jour qui pese entier dans la sainte balance, Quand la main qui les pese a ses poids ...
— Two Knapsacks - A Novel of Canadian Summer Life • John Campbell
... indigne de vos bonnes graces et de votre souvenir que d'avoir manque fort longtemps a vous ecrire; il falloit encore retarder quinze jours a me donner l'honneur de repondre a votre lettre. En verite, Madame, cela me fait paroitre si coupable, que vers tout autre que vous j'aimeroix mieux l'etre en effet que d'entreprendre une chose si difficile qu' est celle de me justifier. Mais je me sens si innocente dans mon ame, et j'ai tant d'estime, de respect et d'affection pour vous, qu'il me semble que vous devez le connoitre a cent lieues de ...
— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot
... in character, and, true to his humanitarian ideals, was resolved to be fully prepared this time to care for as many people as he might disable. Giuseppe Jones, who was quieter now, although at times still irrationally babbling incendiary vers libre poems, was removed to the Annabel Lee, where Miss Medley, quite worn out, turned him over to a ...
— The Cruise of the Jasper B. • Don Marquis
... Unies a present sous l'obeissance de sa dite Majeste le Roi d'Espagne; et pour leur procurer d'autant plus sur convoi, m'ait desire, comme Ambassadeur Extraordinaire de son Altesse Monseigneur le Protecteur de la Republique d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse, et d'Irlande, vers sa Majeste la Reine de Suede, de lui donner passeport: ces presents sont pour requerir tous ceux qui ont commandement par mer ou par terre, et tous officiers et autres de la dite Republique auxquels il peut appartenir, de permettre le porteur ...
— A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. • Bulstrode Whitelocke
... ordinarily found it judg'd inconsistent with the Duty of a private Subject, to propose his Doubts or his Reasons to the Publick in a modest way, concerning the Repeal of any Law which he may think of ill Consequence by its Continuance. If he be a Man of Ability, and well vers'd in the Argument, he will deserve some Attention; but if he mistakes his Talent, and will be busy with what he very little understands, Contempt and Odium will be his unavoidable and just Allotment." And you say, ...
— A Discourse Concerning Ridicule and Irony in Writing (1729) • Anthony Collins
... allait me suivre. Je le precedai, et comme il ne me suivait pas je m'arretai, pour l'attendre sur un terte exhausse d'ou l'on decouvre tout le pays. Je contemplais le canton que je dominais, plonge dans une douce reverie. J'en fus tire par des cris et je me retournai vers l'endroit d'ou ils partaient. Je vis M. le Baron d'Holbach environne d'une vieille femme et de deux villageois, l'un vieux comme elle et l'autre jeune. Tous trois, les larmes aux yeux, l'embrassaient hautement. ...
— Baron d'Holbach • Max Pearson Cushing
... resolved; but had not power To hold the humour "half an hour"— And critics, vers'd in Cupid's laws, Pretended they had found a clause, In an old volume on the shelf;— Which said, if arrows chanc'd to fly, When no bright nymph was passing by, And lighted on a vacant breast; The swain, Narcissus-like ...
— Vignettes in Verse • Matilda Betham
... celebre Marie eut, au XIIIe siecle, donne une assez ample histoire du Purgatoire de St.-Patrice, puisqu'elle est de plus de trois mille vers, deux autres Trouveres anglo-normands qui probablement ne connaissaient pas son poeme, volurent dans le siecle suivant ...
— The Purgatory of St. Patrick • Pedro Calderon de la Barca
... es say' ep'ic ep'och de cease' dis ease' bea'con beck'on de scent' dis sent' coffin cough'ing de vice' de vise' grist'ly gris'ly huz za' hus sar' di'vers di'verse in tense' in tents' cho'ral cor'al a loud' al lowed' gant'let gaunt'let im merse' a merce' mu'sic mu'cic af fect' ef fect' rad'ish red'dish e lude' al lude' sculp'tor sculpt'ure ...
— McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book • W. H. McGuffey
... belongs to that school of which the other chief representatives, in English or American literature, have been Praed, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Mr Austin Dobson. It has always been the fashion to class him with the first named of the trio as a writer of "occasional verse" or "vers de societe." These titles, like other parts of the nomenclature of the poetic art, are not satisfying. Why "smoothly written verse, where a boudoir decorum is or ought always to be preserved: where sentiment ...
— London Lyrics • Frederick Locker
... a steeplelike structure labeled "cest li masons don orologe" (this is the house of a clock), a device including a rope, wheel and axle (fig. 20), marked "par chu fait om un angle tenir son doit ades vers le solel" (by this means an angel is made to keep his finger directed towards the sun), and a perpetual motion wheel which we shall reserve for ...
— On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass • Derek J. de Solla Price
... Dedaigneusement dire: Eh, que veut celui-ci? Qu'ai-je donc de commun avec un vil artiste? Un ouvrier francais, un Bibliopegiste? Ose-t-on ravaler un Ministre a ce point? Que me veut ce Lesne? Je ne le connais point. Je crois me souvenir qu'a mon voyage en France, Avec ses pauvres vers je nouai connaissance. Mais c'est si peu de chose un poete a Paris! Savez-vous bien, Monsieur, pourquoi je vous ecris? C'est que je crois avoir le droit de vous ecrire. Fussiez-vous cent fois plus ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... a vecu en Odeur de Saintete dans sa Religion, vers la Fin du premier et le Commencement du second Siecle," no part of which, except the "Philosophe," can apply to ...
— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam
... vielle, le soir a la chandelle Assise aupres du feu devisant et filant, Direz, chantant mes vers en vous esmerveillant, Ronsard m'a celebre du temps que ...
— Ballads • William Makepeace Thackeray
... People whatsoever: And These owing their immediate Birth to the peculiar Genius of each Age, an infinite Number of Things alluded to, glanced at, and expos'd, must needs become obscure, as the Characters themselves are antiquated and disused. An Editor therefore should be well vers'd in the History and Manners of his Author's Age, if he aims at doing him ...
— Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare • D. Nichol Smith
... in this instance—had arrived. A committee was appointed to wait upon the captain next day. The following morning the excitement was at its highest pitch. It was not safe for an American to be seen conversing with an Englishman, or vice vers. ...
— In a Steamer Chair And Other Stories • Robert Barr
... de vivre et de combattre en citoyens d'un peuple libre, de marcher resolument dans l'ouragan de fer vers la paix qui se levera comme une belle aurore sur l'Europe affranchie des menaces de ses tyrans, et verra renaetre, faibles et timides encore, la JUSTICE et L'HUMANITE etouffees par le ...
— Defenders of Democracy • The Militia of Mercy
... enthusiastic mystics, or from the poetic half-prose of the pastoral poet Salomon Gessner, they were, in any case, something new and peculiar, and their nature has not been grasped in the least degree by the French in their "vers libres," or at any rate only since the half-Germanic Fleming Verhaeren. They received an interesting development through Goethe and Heinrich Heine, while most of the other poets who made use of them, even the greatest one, Novalis, often deteriorated either into a regular, ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke
... had been extracted from copies of the two first Parnassian books; it was printed on parchment paper and preceded by this title: Quelques vers de Mallarme, designed in a surprising calligraphy in uncial letters, illuminated and relieved with gold, as ...
— Against The Grain • Joris-Karl Huysmans
... boire.... Mettez-moi la face au vent du nord sur le bord de l'eau et que sa fraicheur calme mon coeur" (Maspero, Etudes egyptiennes, I, 1881, p. 189). "Oh, si j'avais de l'eau courante a boire et si mon visage etait tourne vers le vent du nord" (Naville,op. cit., p. 174). On a funerary stele in the Brussels museum (Capart, Guide, 1905, p. 71) is inscribed, "Que les dieux accordent de boire l'eau des sources, de respirer les doux vents du nord."—The very material origin of this wish ...
— The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism • Franz Cumont
... machen und kuenstliche Vers' ein Beduerfnis, Fehlt mir ein eigenes Lied, so uebersetz' ...
— The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany • Arthur F. J. Remy
... of Moliere's invention, but is to be found in Les Oeuvres galantes en prose et en vers de M. Cotin, Paris, 1663. It is called, Sonnet a Mademoiselle de Longueville, a present Duchesse de Nemours, sur sa fievre quarte. As, of necessity, the translation given above is not very literal, I append ...
— The Learned Women • Moliere (Poquelin)
... most deseseth; It is the cuppe whom he serveth, Which alle cares fro him kerveth And alle bales to him bringeth: In joie he wepth, in sorwe he singeth, For Dronkeschipe is so divers, It may no whyle stonde in vers. 70 He drinkth the wyn, bot ate laste The wyn drynkth him and bint him faste, And leith him drunke be the wal, As him which is his bonde thral And al in his subjeccion. And lich to such condicion, ...
— Confessio Amantis - Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins, 1330-1408 A.D. • John Gower
... supra in Le Bulletin des Recherches Historiques, Vol. II, p. 136, it is said: "Une annonce publiee dans la Gazette de Quebec vers: cette epoque (i.e., 1797) represente un negre courant a toutes jambes. 'Il est offert une recompense honnete a qui remenera a son maitre marchand de Trois Rivieres son esclave fugitif' Ce pauvre diable pensait ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 • Various
... mind and power of adapting himself to every circumstance were never more strikingly shown than in that great address to the quick-witted Athenians. It falls into three parts: the conciliatory prelude (vers. 22, 23); the declaration of the Unknown God (vers. 24-29); and the proclamation of the God-ordained ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts • Alexander Maclaren
... of scholarship. In his search for beautiful form, he stood upon the ancient ways, patient and serene, moving steadily to his appointed end. 'Ainsi procède le génie grec, moins soucieux du nouveau que du mieux, il reporte vers l'épuration des formes l'activité que d'autres dépensent en innovations souvent stériles, jusqu'à ce qu'enfin il atteigne l'exquise mesure dans les efforts, et dans les expressions l'absolue justesse.'[143] There have been rare periods since, when Architecture ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various
... a Man that had good Learning, and was well vers'd in the Sciences. What Avenpace[9] says at the end of his Discourse concerning the UNION, is worth your Observing; There he, says That 'twill appear plainly to any one that understands the design of his ...
— The Improvement of Human Reason - Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan • Ibn Tufail
... said that in the word Holy we have the central thought of the high-priestly prayer. As the Father's attribute (John xvii. 11), as the Son's work for Himself and us (ver. 19), as the direct work of the Father through the Spirit (vers. 17, 20), it is the revelation of the glory of God in Himself and in us. Let us enter into the Holiest of all, and as we bow with our Great High Priest, let the deep, unceasing cry go up for all the Church of God, 'Holy Father! make ...
— Holy in Christ - Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy • Andrew Murray
... commissaire general m'a repondu qu'il a donne des ordres pour que ces ballots soient recus et emmagasines au Havre; et il s'entendra avec vous pour les expedier vers leur destination, a mesure que les occasions viendront ...
— Movement of the International Literary Exchanges, between France and North America from January 1845 to May, 1846 • Various
... blanche, chatte sans tache, Je te demande dans ces vers Quel secret dort dans tes yeux verts, Quel sarcasme sous ...
— Concerning Cats - My Own and Some Others • Helen M. Winslow
... elaborate or tedious, would either require much skill, or exercise his patience. And yet that this sort of Experiments is exceedingly Numerous, and might more than a little inrich the History of Colours, those that are vers'd in Chymical processes, will, I presume, easily ...
— Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) • Robert Boyle
... d'elegance, et toute sa maison est aussi bien tenue que celle de Millais, par exemple. Nous avons cause de beaucoup de choses, entre autres precisement de cette curieuse question de priere selon Comte. Elle soutient que c'est raisonnable dans le sens d'expression de vif desir, de concentration de l'esprit vers son but. Son argument etait bien fortement soutenu par sa maniere energique de raisonner, mais je lui ai tenu tete avec beaucoup d'obstination, et nous avons eu une veritable lutte. Elle a une singuliere puissance, quelque chose qui ne se trouve ...
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al
... ingeniously to the much study given to the Greek drapery of the Elgin marbles by the English School, since the days of the Pre-Raphaelites. Elsewhere, taking as his text the picture The Spirit of the Summit, he says: "Des sujets qui elevent la pensee vers les sommets de la vie ou de l'histoire, de sorte qu'on ne puisse se rappeler un nez ou une jambe sans se souvenir de quelque haute lecon evangelique, ou de moins de quelque grande necessite sociale, voila ...
— Frederic Lord Leighton - An Illustrated Record of His Life and Work • Ernest Rhys
... Leconte de Lisle. See his "Discours de Réception." Is it possible to imagine anything more absurdly arid? Rhetoric of this sort, "des vers d'or sur une éclume d'airain" and such sententious platitudes as this (speaking of the realists), "Les épidémies de cette nature ...
— Confessions of a Young Man • George Moore
... De quelque cote qu'un tourne la torche, la flamme se redresse et monte vers le ciel.'" ("A favorite thought of Cosima's: Whichever way you may turn the torch, the flame turns on itself and still ...
— The Loves of Great Composers • Gustav Kobb
... d'un banquet, Ne vous vienne donner un avis indiscret, Ecartez ce facheux qui vers vous s'achemine, Rien ne doit deranger ...
— Pelham, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... mere improviser or dilettante, wishes his work to endure.[Footnote: See Anatole France: Le Lys Rouge. "Moi, dit Choulette, je pense si peu a l'avenir terrestre que j'ai ecrit mes plus beaux poemes sur les feuilles de papier a cigarettes. Elles se sont facilement evanuies, ne laissant a mes vers qu'une espece d'existence metaphysique." C'etait un air de negligence qu'il se donnait. En fait, il n'avait jamais perdu une ligne de son ecriture.] Having put his substance into it, he desires its preservation as he does his own. His immortality ...
— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker
... been suggested by Chapelain, aroused unbounded ridicule. In scene iv of Moliere's Les Precieuses Ridicules (1659), Cathos cries, 'Je m'en vais gager qu'ils n'ont jamais vu la carte de Tendre, et que Billets-Doux, Petits-Soins, Billets-Galante, et Jolis-Vers sont des terres inconnues pour eux.' This imaginary land is divided by the River of Inclination: on the one side are the towns of Respect, Generosity, A Great Heart, and the like; on the other Constant Friendship, Assiduity, Submission, ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn - Volume IV. • Aphra Behn
... vertus et des vices D'un astre imperieux doit suivre les caprices? Et Delphes malgre nous conduit nos actions Au plus bizarre effet de ses predictions? L'ame est donc toute esclave; une loi soveraine Vers le bien ou le mal incessamment l'entraine; Et nous recevons ni crainte ni desir, De cette liberte qui n'a rien a choisir; Attaches sans relache a cet ordre sublime, Vertueux sans merite, et vicieux sans crime; Qu'on massare les rois, qu'on brise les autels, C'est la faute des dieux, ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 6 (of 18) - Limberham; Oedipus; Troilus and Cressida; The Spanish Friar • John Dryden
... Con-vers like Lords and Lydies," said Dickie, in the accents of the gutter, "and your noble benefacteriness made me seek to express my feelinks with the best ...
— Harding's luck • E. [Edith] Nesbit
... tost, demande si on n'a point entendu ses cris: tout le monde dit que non, horsmis deux ieunes hommes ses parens, qui disent auoir ouy des plaintes fort sourdes, et comme de loing. O qu'ils le firent aise! Se tournant vers moy, il se mit rire, disant: Voyez cette robe noire, qui nous vient dire qu'il ne faut tuer personne. Comme ie regardois attentiuement l'espe et le poignard, il me les fit presenter: Regarde, dit-il, qu'est cela? C'est du sang, repartis-ie. ...
— The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century • Francis Parkman
... Zug vers le milieu de la nuit. Il se flattait d'occuper sans resistance le defile de Morgarten qui ne percait qu'avec difficulte entre le lac Aegre et le pied d'une montagne escarpee. Il marchait a la tete de sa gendarmerie. Une colonne profonde d'infanterie le suivait de pres, et les uns et les ...
— Gibbon • James Cotter Morison
... of daily verse our times produce this volume utters itself with a range and brilliancy wholly remarkable. I cannot see that Miss Lowell's use of unrhymed 'vers libre' has been surpassed in English. Read 'The Captured Goddess', 'Music', and 'The Precinct. Rochester', a piece of mastercraft in this kind. A wealth of subtleties and sympathies, gorgeously wrought, full of macabre effects (as many of the poems are) and brilliantly worked out. The things of ...
— A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass • Amy Lowell
... elle se fit religieuse a l'Hotel-Dieu. L'epouse de Jean Juchereau de la Ferte fut Marie nee en France, puisque son contrat de mariage en 1645 la dite "agee de 17 ans environ" ce qui reporte sa naissance vers 1628. Charles assiste et signe un contrat. Ce n'est pas Robert Giffard, mais son fils Joseph, dont le corps fut transporte a la ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine
... after another, and ouerraked the waste of the shippe like a mightie riuer running ouer it, whereas in faire weather it was neere 20. foote aboue the water, that nowe wee might cry out with the princely Prophet Psalme 107. vers. 26. They mount vp to heauen, and descend to the deepe, so that their soule melteth away for trouble: they reele too and fro, and stagger like a drunken man, and all their cunning is gone. With this extremitie ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, v. 7 - England's Naval Exploits Against Spain • Richard Hakluyt
... au regime, et notre faux malade, Soigne par l'accouchee, en son lit fait couvade: On ferme avec grand soin portes, volets, rideaux; Immobile, on l'oblige a rester sur le dos, Pour etouffer son lait, qui gene dans sa course, Pourrait en l'etouffant remonter vers sa source. Un mari, dans sa couche, au medecin soumis, Recoit, en cet etat, parents, voisins, amis, Qui viennent l'exhorter a prendre patience Et font des voeux au ciel ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... most susceptible of Religion, as if it sprung and derived its credit from our weakness."[83] And we find M. Comte himself complaining, somewhat bitterly, that his quondam friend, the celebrated St. Simon, had exhibited, as he advanced in years (cette tendance banale vers une vague religiosite), a tendency towards something like Religion.[84] Cases of this kind are utterly fatal to his supposed law of individual development, and they must be equally fatal to his theory of the progress ...
— Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws • James Buchanan
... art; je dirai dans mes vers, Combien il eprouva de changemens divers; Je dirai ce que fut cet art en sa naissance; Je dirai ses progres, et, de sa decadence. Je nommerai sans fard les ineptes auteurs: Oui, je vais derouler aux yeux des amateurs: Des mauvais procedes la deplorable liste. Je ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... que pour trainer des chanes, Un coeur que pour l'ennui, des sens que pour les peines, Pour lui, plus de beaux jours, de ruisseau, de gazon; Cette voute est son ciel, ces murs son horizon, Son regard, eleve vers les flambeaux celestes, Vient mourir dans la nuit de ses cachots funestes; Rien n'egaie a ses yeux leur morne obscurite; Ou si, par des barreaux avares de clarte, Un faible jour se glisse en ces antres funebres, Il redouble pour lui les horreurs des tenebres, Et, le coeur consume d'un ...
— A Visit to the Monastery of La Trappe in 1817 • W.D. Fellowes
... different from his own. For poetry, more than all forms of literature, loses most by translation—especially from Gascon into English. Villemain, one of the best of critics, says: "Toute traduction en vers est ...
— Jasmin: Barber, Poet, Philanthropist • Samuel Smiles
... philosophie parmi les peuples de l'antiquite; il n'a une grande position ni politique ni militaire. Ses institutions sont purement conservatrices; les prophetes, qui representent excellemment son genie, sont des hommes essentiellement reactionnaires, se reportant toujours vers un ideal anterieur. Comment expliquer, au sein d'une societe aussi etroite et aussi peu developpee, une revolution d'idees qu'Athenes et Alexandrie n'ont pas reussi ...
— Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I - Essays on the Science of Religion • Friedrich Max Mueller
... si le savant, a mesure qu'il tend vers une connaissance plus complete du reel, n'adopte pas, en un certain sens, le point de vue propre au poete. Boileau disait de la physique de Descartes qu'elle avait coupe la gorge a la poesie. La raison en est qu'elle s'en tenait au pur mecanisme et ne definissait la matiere ...
— Nature Mysticism • J. Edward Mercer
... sous vos casques, Quels poings noueux et noirs vers le nord vous tendiez! "Les cerisiers!" criaient avec fureur les Basques; Et ceux du ...
— Everyman's Land • C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
... l'exterieur de la montagne, ou contre la vallee." Again, on the Pass of the Gries, Sec. 1738: "Le rocher presente des couches d'un schiste micace raye comme une etoffe; comme de l'autre cote ils surplombent vers le dehors de la montagne." Without referring to other passages I think Saussure's simple words, "suivant l'usage," are enough to justify my statement in Chap. XIV. Sec. 3; only the reader must of course always remember that every conceivable position ...
— Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) • John Ruskin
... assez de mauvais vers. Let us finish with a word or two in honest prose, tho' indeed I shall so soon be back again and, if you be in town as I hope, so soon get linked again down the Lothian road by a cigar or two and a liquor, that it is perhaps scarce worth the postage to send my letter on before me. I have just been ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... donc ton seule asile! Ah! dans la tombe, au moins, repose enfin tranquille! Ce beau lac, ces flots purs, ces fleurs, ces gazons frais, Ces pales peupliers, tout t'invite a la paix. Respire, donc, enfin, de tes tristes chimeres. Vois accourir vers toi les epoux, et les meres. Contemple les amans, qui viennent chaque jour, Verser sur ton tombeau les larmes de l'amour! Vois ce groupe d'enfans, se jouant sous l'ombrage, Qui de leur liberte viennent te rendre hommage; Et dis, en contemplant ce spectacle enchanteur, Je ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. V - Tales of a Fashionable Life • Maria Edgeworth
... Scatter'd among many Chymical Books. And to Find these Associated Experiments so Deliver'd as that an Ordinary Reader, if he be but Acquainted with the usuall Chymical Termes, may easily enough Understand Them; and even a wary One may safely rely on Them. These Things I add, because a Person any Thing vers'd in the Writings of Chymists cannot but Discern by their obscure, Ambiguous, and almost AEnigmatical Way of expressing what they pretend to Teach, that they have no Mind, to be understood at all, but by the Sons of Art (as they call ...
— The Sceptical Chymist • Robert Boyle
... n'etait guerre autre chose qu'une haine deguisee et une declaration de guerre a la societe et a la religion. Il n'y a pai trace du sentiment legitime et profond qui attire l'artiste et le poete vers les splendeurs de la creation, revelatrices du monde invisible. Ne demandez pas an dix-huiteme siecle la poesie de la Nature, pas plus que celle du coeur.' Buffon shews 'l'etat poetique des sciences de la Nature,' but his brilliant ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese
... that people praise "Archy the Vers Libre Cockroach" and clamour for more; while "Hermione," a careful and cutting satire on the follies of pseudokultur near the Dewey Arch, elicits only "a mild, mild ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley
... des brouillards maudits. Vers la France, sainte mere et nourrice! Reviens a Lutece, de l'art vrai paradis, Je t'evoque, O ...
— The Cook's Decameron: A Study in Taste: - Containing Over Two Hundred Recipes For Italian Dishes • Mrs. W. G. Waters
... acaulis raises its three leaflets at night; whilst Amorpha fruticosa,* Dalea alopecuroides, and Indigofera tinctoria depress them. Ducharte** states that Tephrosia caribaea is the sole example of "folioles couches le long du ptiole et vers la base;" ...
— The Power of Movement in Plants • Charles Darwin
... bye, Garrick," Carlisle remarked slyly, when he had recovered, "Mrs. Crewe was vastly taken with the last 'vers' you left on ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... entre les etrangers, comme il y en a plusieurs qui se melent d'ecrire et qui pourraient prendre occasion d'y repondre, je vous prie qu'il n'en soit rien imprime ni en francais ni en Latin, mais si vous en avez retenu quelque chose, le garder vers vous (Charles IX. to the President de Cely, March 24, 1573; Revue ...
— The History of Freedom • John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton
... "Vers l'Eternel des oppressez le pere Je m'en iray, luy monstrant l'impropere Que l'on me faict, luy ferai ma priere A haulte voix, qu'il ne jette en arriere Mes piteux cris, car en ...
— Books Fatal to Their Authors • P. H. Ditchfield
... de la croisade centre les heretiques Albigeois. Ecrite en vers provencaux par un poete contemporain. (Aiso es la consos de la crozada contr els ereges ...
— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park
... roots which at that early time were used in common by the ancestors of the Aryan and Semitic races, acertain portion may have been lost by each, so that the fact that there are roots in Hebrew of which no trace exists in Sanskrit, and vice vers, would again be perfectly natural ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... sont point de ces grands vers pompeux, Mais de petits vers! "Le Misanthrope," Acte ...
— Ballads in Blue China and Verses and Translations • Andrew Lang
... at the same time he wrote here to Formay: 'Votre roi est toujours un homme unique, etonnant, inimitable; il fait des vers charmants dans de temps ou un autre ne pourrait faire un ligne de prose, il ...
— Frederick The Great and His Family • L. Muhlbach
... cent vers a copier!" said M. Bonzig, and his eyes quiveringly glittered through his ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier
... imitation from Horace, book iii., ode ix., vers. 17 and 18. Quid? si prisca redet Venus Diductosque ...
— The Love-Tiff • Moliere
... in angels as giving motion to the planets, see Lenormant; also Lethaby, 13-21; also Schroeder, Jensen, Lukas, et al. For the contribution of the pseudo-Dionysius to mediaeval cosmology, see Dion. Areopagita, De Coelesti Hierarchia, vers. Joan. Scoti, in Migne, Patr. Lat., cxxii. For the contribution of Peter Lombard, see Pet. Lomb., Libr. Sent., II, i, 8,-IV, i, 6, 7, in Migne, tome 192. For the citations from St. Thomas Aquinas, see the Summa, ed. Migne, especially ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White
... even for Transatlantic criticism. Nobody who lays claim to the slightest knowledge of literature and the forms of literature should ever bring the two names into conjunction. Mr. Locker has written some pleasant vers de societe, some tuneful trifles in rhyme admirably suited for ladies' albums and for magazines. But to mention Herrick and Suckling and Mr. Austin Dobson in connection with him is absurd. He is not a poet. Mr. Dobson, ...
— Reviews • Oscar Wilde |
