Jack, Volume 1Little, Brown, 1900 - 409 pages |
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Page viii
... 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 to Daudet at this time of all he ...
... 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 to Daudet at this time of all he ...
Page xi
... never as preacher or moralist that Daudet peers over your shoulder . But the quality that reveals itself in his work is none the less a purely personal one ; he loves this humble being , whose biographer he is , so intensely that he ...
... never as preacher or moralist that Daudet peers over your shoulder . But the quality that reveals itself in his work is none the less a purely personal one ; he loves this humble being , whose biographer he is , so intensely that he ...
Page xii
... never 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 ...
... never 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 ...
Page xiii
... never have known , perhaps , save for the confession of Daudet himself , given with that naïve candor which is one of the many delightful qualities of Trente Ans de Paris . Neither can the author of Jack resist telling us that George ...
... never have known , perhaps , save for the confession of Daudet himself , given with that naïve candor which is one of the many delightful qualities of Trente Ans de Paris . Neither can the author of Jack resist telling us that George ...
Page xiv
... never have been greatly disturbed by the attack upon their venerable Academy , but Philistinism , dilettanteism , and in- deed the whole tedious , dismal and deadly tribe of isms may well take umbrage at Jack , for Tartarin's creator ...
... never have been greatly disturbed by the attack upon their venerable Academy , but Philistinism , dilettanteism , and in- deed the whole tedious , dismal and deadly tribe of isms may well take umbrage at Jack , for Tartarin's creator ...
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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...