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Page vii
... least of all , realized how critical his condition really was . So months passed . One day , Daudet tells us , there arrived a little note , pathetic in its brevity , written in a tremulous hand : " Sick at La Charité , Salle de Saint ...
... least of all , realized how critical his condition really was . So months passed . One day , Daudet tells us , there arrived a little note , pathetic in its brevity , written in a tremulous hand : " Sick at La Charité , Salle de Saint ...
Page xii
... least small island of Jack's personality unexplored . His life in the forge , aboard the " Cydnus , " in the Eyssendeck factory , his degradation and effacement , the final en- franchisement and new birth of his soul , Daudet's " double ...
... least small island of Jack's personality unexplored . His life in the forge , aboard the " Cydnus , " in the Eyssendeck factory , his degradation and effacement , the final en- franchisement and new birth of his soul , Daudet's " double ...
Page xiii
... least alluring light is hardly the way to achieve an overwhelming popu- lar success ; a " book of pity , of anger , and of irony , " is an uncertain power with which to con- jure the multitudes . Jack can never appeal to the lovers of ...
... least alluring light is hardly the way to achieve an overwhelming popu- lar success ; a " book of pity , of anger , and of irony , " is an uncertain power with which to con- jure the multitudes . Jack can never appeal to the lovers of ...
Page xv
... least detail has a value for the ro- mancer who knows how to use it rightly . The finer the tool , the greater must be the skill of the workman who handles it . Though Daudet's notes were copious , he instinctively fixed upon those ...
... least detail has a value for the ro- mancer who knows how to use it rightly . The finer the tool , the greater must be the skill of the workman who handles it . Though Daudet's notes were copious , he instinctively fixed upon those ...
Page xxiii
... nothing certain but Death and its final triumph . Meanwhile- Enjoy ! Such at least seems to be the creed of much of decadent literature . Contrast with all this Daudet's method born of his convictions Introduction . xxiii.
... nothing certain but Death and its final triumph . Meanwhile- Enjoy ! Such at least seems to be the creed of much of decadent literature . Contrast with all this Daudet's method born of his convictions Introduction . xxiii.
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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.