"Vivant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... me repliqua que vivant Elizabeth il n'a espoir a la tranquillite du Royaulme, que quant a luy si chascun alloit si rondement en besoyn comme il fait, les choses se porteroient mieux.—Renard to the Emperor, April 3: Rolls House MSS. From these dark plotters, ...
— The Reign of Mary Tudor • James Anthony Froude
... crater parvule! How my soul yearns for thee! Make me now merry, O potus optime, Claret or hock or sherry! Et vos concinite: Vivant socii! ...
— Wine, Women, and Song - Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse • Various
... seven verses of this discourse, I cannot help seeing a gentle allusion to Schopenhauer's habits as a bon-vivant. For a pessimist, be it remembered, Schopenhauer led quite an extraordinary life. He ate well, loved well, played the flute well, and I believe he smoked the best cigars. What follows ...
— Thus Spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None • Friedrich Nietzsche
... dist Messires Marc: 'Encore une foiz, biaus sires, li Bacsi de Tebet et de Kescemir et li prestre de Seilan, qui si dient que l'arme vivant doie trespasser par tous cez changes de vestemens; si com se treuve escript ou livre Maistre Rusticien que Sagamoni Borcan mourut iiij vint et iiij foiz et tousjourz resuscita, et a chascune foiz d'une diverse maniere de beste, et a la derreniere foyz mourut hons et devint diex, ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... jeter d'effroi. Sur ce trne sacr, qu'environne la foudre, J'ai cru vous voir tout prt me reduire en poudre. 650 Hlas! sans frissonner, quel coeur audacieux Soutiendrait les clairs qui partaient de vos yeux? Ainsi du Dieu vivant la colre ...
— Esther • Jean Racine
... But she gives a similar description of Marguerite's stay on the island, after his death, and says, that although she lived what might seem a bestial life as to her body, it was a life wholly angelic as regarded her soul (ainsi vivant, quant au corps, de vie bestiale, et quant a l'esprit, de vie angelicque). She had, the princess also says, a mind cheerful and content, in a body emaciated and half dead. She was afterwards received with great honor in France, according to the princess, and ...
— Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic • Thomas Wentworth Higginson
... great ecclesiastic of their choice advance on bare feet from the Church of St. Herbland and receive the episcopal ring from the Abbess of St. Amand, with the words, "Messire, je le donne a vous vivant, vous me le rendrez mort." As he came nearer to the western gates, Masselin, the "Grand Doyen," formally presented to him the Cathedral, and received his promise of loyalty and honest government, sworn on the books of ...
— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook |
