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Page ix
... become a burden , and realizing that this was indeed his last illness . At the last , speaking to this friend of Daudet , he said : " Tell him now that I am leaving life , I regret most of all to leave him and his dear wife . " Such ...
... become a burden , and realizing that this was indeed his last illness . At the last , speaking to this friend of Daudet , he said : " Tell him now that I am leaving life , I regret most of all to leave him and his dear wife . " Such ...
Page x
... becomes so possessed with the idea of Jack , that to follow the latter's fortunes he flings aside the work at which he had been so busily engaged . And what is the book he lays aside , with fine dis- regard of consequences ? The most ...
... becomes so possessed with the idea of Jack , that to follow the latter's fortunes he flings aside the work at which he had been so busily engaged . And what is the book he lays aside , with fine dis- regard of consequences ? The most ...
Page xii
... becomes the mere itinerary of scenes and events . " Un livre de pitié , de colère , et d'ironie , " says Daudet of Jack in this dedication to Gustave Flaubert , and that Flaubert found somewhat too much of these qualities in Jack is ...
... becomes the mere itinerary of scenes and events . " Un livre de pitié , de colère , et d'ironie , " says Daudet of Jack in this dedication to Gustave Flaubert , and that Flaubert found somewhat too much of these qualities in Jack is ...
Page xv
... becomes the flashlight in which a whole personality stands revealed . The characters he has painted in Jack , however familiar or commonplace , however grotesque , are never mere caricatures . They exist . They have always existed ; in ...
... becomes the flashlight in which a whole personality stands revealed . The characters he has painted in Jack , however familiar or commonplace , however grotesque , are never mere caricatures . They exist . They have always existed ; in ...
Page xxiii
... becomes a name ; goodness a mere acci- dent ; Love is merely a surprise of the senses ; nothing certain but Death and its final triumph . Meanwhile- Enjoy ! Such at least seems to be the creed of much of decadent literature . Contrast ...
... becomes a name ; goodness a mere acci- dent ; Love is merely a surprise of the senses ; nothing certain but Death and its final triumph . Meanwhile- Enjoy ! Such at least seems to be the creed of much of decadent literature . Contrast ...
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appearance asked Avenue Montaigne beautiful Bélisaire Bon ami Boulevard Haussmann carriage Cécile Champs-Élysées Charlotte charming cold Countess creature d'Argenton Dahomey Daudet dear Decostère delightful doctor door dream entered Étiolles eyes face factotum felt forest garden glance Guérigny Gymnase Moronval hand happy head heard Hirsch Jack's Kérika King of Dahomey Labassindre light listened little Jack little King little negro little tropicals looked Madame de Barancy Madame Moronval Mademoiselle Constant Mâdou mamma Monsieur Moronval Monsieur Rivals Moronval-Decostère Moronval's Mother Archambauld Moucié mulatto Nantais never night Paris passed paused poet Pointe-à-Pitre pupils road Roudic Saïd seated seemed seen sight silence singer sleep smile solemn sort sound spite suddenly talk tears tell terrible things thought tion trees Vaugirard Villeneuve-Saint-Georges voice wait walk watching wife woman words wretched
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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.