The Paris Sketch Book, Volume 2D. Appleton, 1852 |
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Page 159 - Et sur un âne, pas à pas, Parcourait son royaume. Joyeux, simple et croyant le bien, Pour toute garde il n'avait rien Qu'un chien. Oh ! oh ! oh ! oh ! ah ! ah ! ah ! ah ! &c.
Page 170 - Posséder dans sa hutte Une table, un vieux lit, Des cartes, une flûte, Un broc que Dieu remplit ; Un portrait de maîtresse, Un coffre et rien dedans ; Eh gai ! c'est la richesse Du gros Roger-Bontemps.
Page 160 - On conserve encor le portrait De ce digne et bon prince ; C'est l'enseigne d'un cabaret Fameux dans la province. Les jours de fête, bien souvent, La foule s'écrie en buvant Devant : Oh ! oh ! oh ! oh ! ah ! ah ! ah ! ah ! Quel bon petit roi c'était là ! La, la.
Page 91 - O awful, awful name of God ! Light unbearable ! Mystery unfathomable ! Vastness immeasurable ! Who are these who come forward to explain the mystery, and gaze unblinking into the depths of the light, and measure the immeasurable vastness to a hair? O name, that God's people of old did fear to utter ! O light, that God's prophet would have perished had he seen ! Who are these that are now so familiar with it...
Page 159 - Peu connu dans l'histoire; Se levant tard, se couchant tôt, Dormant fort bien sans gloire, Et couronné par Jeanneton D'un simple bonnet de coton, Dit-on. Oh! oh! oh! oh!
Page 160 - Aux filles de bonnes maisons Comme il avait su plaire, Ses sujets avaient cent raisons De le nommer leur père ; D'ailleurs il ne levait de ban Que pour tirer , quatre fois l'an , Au blane.
Page 160 - Fut un voisin commode, Et, modèle des potentats, Prit le plaisir pour code. Ce n'est que lorsqu'il expira Que le peuple, qui l'enterra, Pleura.
Page 164 - THERE was a king in Brentford, — of whom no legends tell, But who, without his glory, — could eat and sleep right well. His Polly's cotton nightcap — it was his crown of state, He slept of evenings early, — and rose of mornings late.
Page 30 - The genius of Cervantes was transferred into the novels of Fielding, who painted the characters and ridiculed the follies of life with equal strength, humour and propriety. The field of history and biography was cultivated by many writers of ability, among whom we distinguish the copious Guthrie, the circumstantial Ralph, the laborious Carte, the learned and elegant Robertson , and above all, the ingenious, penetrating, and comprehensive Hume,
Page 91 - ... brief, rich, melancholy sentences, with plenty of food for future cogitation. I can't express to you the charm of them ; they seem to me like the sound of country bells — provoking I don't know what vein of musing and meditation, and falling sweetly and sadly on the ear. This wonderful power of language must have been felt by most people who read Madame Sand'a first books, " Valentine " and " Indiana " : in