The Eton First French Reading Book, Being an Entirely New Arrangement of 'Tarver's New Method'. by H. and F. Tarver

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ...me donnait and gave me, ceux those, de plusieurs excellents poetes of several beautiful poets, favorises des "M.use$favoured by the Muses. Lorsqu' il etait revetu when he ivas clothed, de sa longue robe with his long robe, d'une eclatante blancheur of dazzling while, et qu'il prenait en main and took in hand, sa lyre d'ivoire his ivory lyre, les tigres the tigers, les lions, the lions, et les ours and the bears, venaient came, le flatter tofawn upon him, et lecher ses pieds and lick hisfeet; les Satyres the Satyrs, sortaient des forets came outfrom theforests, pour danser to dance, autour de lui around him; les arbres memes the very trees, paraissaient seemed, emus excited; et vous auriez cru and you could have supposed, que les rochers attendris that the melted rocks, allaient descendre were about to come down, du haut des montagnes from the tops of the mountains, au charme de ses doux accents at the spell of his sweet accents. 11 ne chantait que he sang but, la grandeur des dieux of the greatness of the gods, la vertu des heros the virtue of heroes, et la sagesse des hommes and the wisdom of nen, qui preferent who prefer la gloire glory, aux plaisirs to pleasure. Il me disait souvent he often told me, que je devais that I ought, prendre courage to take courage, et que les dieux and that the gods, n'abandonneraient would abandon, ni Ulysse neither Ulysses, ni son fils nor his son. Enfin lastly, il m'assura he assured me, que je devais that I ought, a l'exemple d'Apollon ofter the example of Apollo, enseigner to teach, aux bergers the shepherds, a cultiver les Muses to cultivate the Musas. LECON 46. Apollon Apolh, disait-il he said, indigne de ce que angry...