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Alphonse Daudet. Jack Alphonse Daudet ADREN . MOREAU . GIFT OF Irene Hudson CALI UNIVERSITATIS MDCCCLXVI EX LIBRIS 8167 Front Cover.
Alphonse Daudet. Jack Alphonse Daudet ADREN . MOREAU . GIFT OF Irene Hudson CALI UNIVERSITATIS MDCCCLXVI EX LIBRIS 8167 Front Cover.
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... Daudet himself first met this unfortunate in the streets of Paris , it is doubtful whether Jack would have been written at all . But it was at Champrosay they met , Champro- say which plays no small part in Daudet's life , and is ...
... Daudet himself first met this unfortunate in the streets of Paris , it is doubtful whether Jack would have been written at all . But it was at Champrosay they met , Champro- say which plays no small part in Daudet's life , and is ...
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Alphonse Daudet. " double " of Daudet's attached itself to some obscure existence , following it up and down , pene- trating its joys and sorrows , abstracting its secret . Like George Eliot , like Dickens , he delighted in being the ...
Alphonse Daudet. " double " of Daudet's attached itself to some obscure existence , following it up and down , pene- trating its joys and sorrows , abstracting its secret . Like George Eliot , like Dickens , he delighted in being the ...
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Alphonse Daudet. had forbidden all manual labor he spent long days devouring Daudet's books , keeping him silent company while he worked . Looking out upon the green fields , the peaceful river , he would say : " I can understand better ...
Alphonse Daudet. had forbidden all manual labor he spent long days devouring Daudet's books , keeping him silent company while he worked . Looking out upon the green fields , the peaceful river , he would say : " I can understand better ...
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... Daudet wrote to Algiers , and obtained for his protégé a minor position to which very slight duties and a salary of ... Daudet and his wife , never to meet them again . In Algiers a friend of Daudet's opened his doors wide to the young ...
... Daudet wrote to Algiers , and obtained for his protégé a minor position to which very slight duties and a salary of ... Daudet and his wife , never to meet them again . In Algiers a friend of Daudet's opened his doors wide to the young ...
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Page 103 - DE L'ENFANT A SON RÉVEIL O père qu'adore mon père ! Toi qu'on ne nomme qu'à genoux! Toi, dont le nom terrible et doux Fait courber le front de ma mère! On dit que ce brillant soleil N'est qu'un jouet de ta puissance; Que sous tes pieds il se balance Comme une lampe de vermeil. On dit que c'est toi qui fais naître Les petits oiseaux dans les champs, Et qui...
Page xxiv - Did we think victory great ? So it is — but now it seems to me, when it cannot be help'd, that defeat is great, And that death and dismay are great.
Page 285 - ... workman, is no longer what it used to be ; oh, no ! not at all the same thing, not at all. You must know that the time- of the working-man has now come. The middle classes have had their day, the aristocracy likewise. Although, I must say, the aristocracy- Moreover, is it not more natural at your age, to allow yourself to be guided by those who love you, and who are experienced ? " A sob from the child interrupted her. " Then you too send me away; you too send me away.