Works: A Contemporary Version, Volumen20St.Hubert Guild, 1901 |
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... célèbre qu'il a illustré , et qui revit aujourdhui si dignement en Vous ! en Vous , Mes- * The translator's dedication of the work to the French Academy . 6 sieurs , les premiers dépositaires , les conservateurs perpetuels.
... célèbre qu'il a illustré , et qui revit aujourdhui si dignement en Vous ! en Vous , Mes- * The translator's dedication of the work to the French Academy . 6 sieurs , les premiers dépositaires , les conservateurs perpetuels.
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... French tongue , and in particular with the naïve style of " La Pucelle " of Voltaire , are best enabled to appre- ciate the arduous task I have so long toiled to accom- plish ; and to whom , therefore , could I more consistently address ...
... French tongue , and in particular with the naïve style of " La Pucelle " of Voltaire , are best enabled to appre- ciate the arduous task I have so long toiled to accom- plish ; and to whom , therefore , could I more consistently address ...
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... our " Pucelle " by British authors who neither were nor are masters of the French tongue . How much it is to be regretted that men will not take the trouble of examining what occurs within the scope 12 Epistolary Preface .
... our " Pucelle " by British authors who neither were nor are masters of the French tongue . How much it is to be regretted that men will not take the trouble of examining what occurs within the scope 12 Epistolary Preface .
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... French Academy , and the same which has uniformly met the public eye since that epoch . If we may be permitted , Sir , to form an idea of the merits of a work from its rapid and extensive sale ( and for my own part I do not know that ...
... French Academy , and the same which has uniformly met the public eye since that epoch . If we may be permitted , Sir , to form an idea of the merits of a work from its rapid and extensive sale ( and for my own part I do not know that ...
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... every page of this grand serio - comic production . I am , my Lord , Your most obedient , and very humble Servant , W. H. IRELAND . LETTER OF MONSIEUR VOLTAIRE TO THE FRENCH ACADEMY . GENTLEMEN 22 Epistolary Preface .
... every page of this grand serio - comic production . I am , my Lord , Your most obedient , and very humble Servant , W. H. IRELAND . LETTER OF MONSIEUR VOLTAIRE TO THE FRENCH ACADEMY . GENTLEMEN 22 Epistolary Preface .
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Página 239 - Lag of a brother? Why bastard? wherefore base? When my dimensions are as well compact, My mind as generous, and my shape as true, As honest madam's issue? Why brand they us , With base?
Página 279 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils ; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted.
Página 155 - And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
Página 120 - Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tost And flutter'd into rags ; then reliques, beads, Indulgences, dispenses, pardons, bulls, The sport of winds : all these, upwhirl'd aloft, Fly o'er the backside of the world far off, Into a limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown Long after, now unpeopled, and untrod.
Página 55 - That's empty when the moon is full ; Such as take lodgings in a head That's to be let unfurnished. He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice ; As if Divinity had...
Página 75 - He was in logic a great critic, Profoundly skilled in analytic; He could distinguish and divide A hair 'twixt south and south-west side; On either which he would dispute, Confute, change hands, and still confute. He'd undertake to prove, by force Of argument, a man's no horse; He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl, And that a lord may be an owl, A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Página 89 - Has not this present Parliament A ledger to the devil sent, Fully impower'd to treat about Finding revolted witches out? And has not he, within a year, Hang'd threescore of them in one shire...
Página 107 - Bourbon-Orleans, is descended from Philip, duke of Orleans, son of Louis XIII., and younger brother of Louis XIV. His son Philip II., duke of Orleans, was regent of France during the minority of Louis XV.
Página 217 - A blazing star seen in the west, By six or seven men at least. Two trumpets she does sound at once, But both of clean contrary tones ; But whether both with the same wind, Or one before, and one behind, We know not, only this can tell, The one sounds vilely, the other well; And therefore vulgar authors name The one Good, the other Evil Fame.
Página 95 - As an ancient oracle had declared that Troy would never be taken if the horses of Rhesus drank the waters of the Xanthus and fed upon the grass of the Trojan plains...