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Page 326 - Craignez, Romains, craignez que le ciel quelque jour Ne transporte chez vous les pleurs et la misère; Et, mettant en nos mains, par un juste retour, Les armes dont se sert sa vengeance sévère, II ne vous fasse, en sa colère, Nos esclaves à votre tour.
Page 326 - Qu'avez-vous appris aux Germains? Ils ont l'adresse et le courage: S'ils avaient eu l'avidité, Comme vous, et la violence, Peut-être en votre place ils auraient la puissance, Et sauraient en user sans inhumanité. Celle que vos préteurs ont sur nous exercée N'entre qu'à peine en la pensée. La majesté de vos autels Elle-même en est offensée; Car sachez que les immortels Ont les regards sur nous.
Page 326 - Il ne vous fasse en sa colère Nos esclaves à votre tour. Et pourquoi sommes-nous les vôtres? qu'on me die En quoi vous valez mieux que cent peuples divers?
Page 87 - Harley dear — in vain ! For him, thou oft hast bid the world attend, Fond to forget the statesman in .the friend; For Swift and him, despis'd the farce of state, The sober follies of the wise and great ; Dextrous, the craving, fawning crowd to quit, And pleas'd to 'scape from flattery to wit.
Page 76 - Tory observe chez les dames de Paris la tendance que je viens de signaler. . . . 'Les dames de Paris au lieu de a prononcent e bien souvent, quant elles disent : ' Mon mery est à la porte de Péris où il se faict peier' . . . telle manière de parler vient d'accoustement de jeunesse ;' Geoffroi Tory, Champfleury, fo.
Page 259 - Ech after other, clad in clothes blake ; But such a cry and such a woo they make, That in this world nys creature...
Page 36 - Booke at large for the Amendment of Orthographie for English speech : wherein, a most perfect supplie is made, for the wantes and double sounde of letters in the olde Orthographie, with Examples for the same, with the easie conference and vse of both Orthographies, to...
Page 176 - Gallicum, or whistling u, though it cannot be denied to be a distinct simple vowel; yet it is of so laborious and difficult pronunciation to all those Nations amongst whom it is not used (as to the English...
Page 178 - ... and u are peculiar, that they are framed by a double motion of organs, that of the lip, added to that of the tongue ; and yet either of them is a single letter, and not two, because the motions are at the same time, and not successive, as are...
Page 334 - There is also generally a stress upon the last syllable of the fifth measure, but if any one of the three conditions above stated are satisfied, the verse, so far as stress is concerned, is complete, no matter what other syllables have a greater or less stress or length.1 It is a mistake to suppose that there are commonly or regularly, five stresses, one to each measure.