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Page v
... plays no small part in Daudet's life , and is mentioned lovingly in connection with his labors . To what chance they owed their acquaintance we do not know , but for a time they were neighbors . We remember with what tireless patience ...
... plays no small part in Daudet's life , and is mentioned lovingly in connection with his labors . To what chance they owed their acquaintance we do not know , but for a time they were neighbors . We remember with what tireless patience ...
Page ix
... that day when he first met him ? Had not his " double " been taking notes from the very moment of their meeting ? Though imagina◅ tion plays so large a part in his work , Introduction . ix BÉLISAIRE'S FIRST APPEARANCE.
... that day when he first met him ? Had not his " double " been taking notes from the very moment of their meeting ? Though imagina◅ tion plays so large a part in his work , Introduction . ix BÉLISAIRE'S FIRST APPEARANCE.
Page x
Alphonse Daudet. tion plays so large a part in his work , he first lived the events that later took literary shape in his brain . It is characteristic of Daudet that he suddenly becomes so possessed with the idea of Jack , that to follow ...
Alphonse Daudet. tion plays so large a part in his work , he first lived the events that later took literary shape in his brain . It is characteristic of Daudet that he suddenly becomes so possessed with the idea of Jack , that to follow ...
Page xiv
... plays but a minor part in the work ; Daudet did not have to go in search of types or of scenes or of events . He had merely to remember , to draw upon those mental note- books filled to overflowing with observations and suggestions ...
... plays but a minor part in the work ; Daudet did not have to go in search of types or of scenes or of events . He had merely to remember , to draw upon those mental note- books filled to overflowing with observations and suggestions ...
Page xv
... 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 formidable array of them ! Failures of art , of ...
... 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 formidable array of them ! Failures of art , of ...
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appearance asked Avenue Montaigne beautiful Bélisaire beûh 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 poor child pupils road Roudic Saïd seated seemed sight silence singer sleep smile solemn sort sound 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...