Jack, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1900 - 409 pages |
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Page vii
... leave his work , fearing to pain and disappoint his mother , and no one , himself 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 ...
... leave his work , fearing to pain and disappoint his mother , and no one , himself 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 ...
Page viii
... leave of Daudet and his wife , never to meet them again . In Algiers a friend of Daudet's opened his doors wide to the young exile . His health did not mend rapidly , but the freedom of his new life was a joy and inspiration . Writing ...
... leave of Daudet and his wife , never to meet them again . In Algiers a friend of Daudet's opened his doors wide to the young exile . His health did not mend rapidly , but the freedom of his new life was a joy and inspiration . Writing ...
Page ix
... leaving life , I regret most of all to leave him and his dear wife . " Such , in brief , are the meagre details of the life of the real Jack , as narrated by Daudet himself , who knew him best . A single paragraph of a daily newspaper ...
... leaving life , I regret most of all to leave him and his dear wife . " Such , in brief , are the meagre details of the life of the real Jack , as narrated by Daudet himself , who knew him best . A single paragraph of a daily newspaper ...
Page xii
... leaving the dregs behind so that the bright , limpid resultant is a far different thing from the realism of Zola — not of the earth earthy - rather , a jewel darting lam- bent fires , the very crystallization of Daudet's thought and ...
... leaving the dregs behind so that the bright , limpid resultant is a far different thing from the realism of Zola — not of the earth earthy - rather , a jewel darting lam- bent fires , the very crystallization of Daudet's thought and ...
Page xxvi
... leave it there . He mounts the pulpit , and pounds it vigorously , with that clarion : " Dead , your majesty . Dead , my lords and gentlemen . Dead , right Reverends and wrong Reverends of every order " - et cetera ! What is all this ...
... leave it there . He mounts the pulpit , and pounds it vigorously , with that clarion : " Dead , your majesty . Dead , my lords and gentlemen . Dead , right Reverends and wrong Reverends of every order " - et cetera ! What is all this ...
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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...