Jack, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1900 - 409 pages |
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Page xv
... natural that the Failures themselves should play no small part in the history . This is conspicuously the Book of Failures , and they bear the same relation to the main theme that the Greek Chorus sustains to the Tragedy . What a ...
... natural that the Failures themselves should play no small part in the history . This is conspicuously the Book of Failures , and they bear the same relation to the main theme that the Greek Chorus sustains to the Tragedy . What a ...
Page xix
... nature . Perhaps no one of Daudet's characters shows more of the method and motive of what he wrought than Ida de Barancy . How is her per- sonality revealed ? By one of those slight touches which lays bare the inmost nature of the ...
... nature . Perhaps no one of Daudet's characters shows more of the method and motive of what he wrought than Ida de Barancy . How is her per- sonality revealed ? By one of those slight touches which lays bare the inmost nature of the ...
Page xx
... nature so pure and tender and faithful that it cannot con- ceive of evil or wrong , and perishes of very sor- row when the bitter knowledge is rudely thrust upon it . He has pictured in Frédérique , the noblest perhaps of all his ...
... nature so pure and tender and faithful that it cannot con- ceive of evil or wrong , and perishes of very sor- row when the bitter knowledge is rudely thrust upon it . He has pictured in Frédérique , the noblest perhaps of all his ...
Page xxi
Alphonse Daudet. attaining an end , and that end the gratification of a nature so cruel and sordid and false that it might have been transparent even to so ingenuous a nature as Risler's . In Sappho another type , the woman frankly ...
Alphonse Daudet. attaining an end , and that end the gratification of a nature so cruel and sordid and false that it might have been transparent even to so ingenuous a nature as Risler's . In Sappho another type , the woman frankly ...
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... nature , caused her to break down utterly , and give way to a plaintive outburst of words broken by sobs , and full of noisy abandon . Ah , yes ! she was miserable indeed . No one would ever know all she had suffered already for that ...
... nature , caused her to break down utterly , and give way to a plaintive outburst of words broken by sobs , and full of noisy abandon . Ah , yes ! she was miserable indeed . No one would ever know all she had suffered already for that ...
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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...