Histoire de la littérature anglaise, Volume 3L. Hachette, 1866 - English literature |
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Page 45
... enough in bed To warm your widowed side . Comparez la matrone romaine de Plaute et l'honnête dame fran- çaise de Molière à cette personne expansive . " à la mode , donne l'exemple de la comédie CHAPITRE I. LA RESTAURATION . 45.
... enough in bed To warm your widowed side . Comparez la matrone romaine de Plaute et l'honnête dame fran- çaise de Molière à cette personne expansive . " à la mode , donne l'exemple de la comédie CHAPITRE I. LA RESTAURATION . 45.
Page 48
... I cannot but publicly give your Grace my humble acknowledgments .... This is the poet's gratitude , which in plain english is only pride and ambition . ce qu'on trouve : les ivrognes de barrière , à 48 LIVRE III . L'ÂGE CLASSIQUE .
... I cannot but publicly give your Grace my humble acknowledgments .... This is the poet's gratitude , which in plain english is only pride and ambition . ce qu'on trouve : les ivrognes de barrière , à 48 LIVRE III . L'ÂGE CLASSIQUE .
Page 53
... your coachman . » She has a complexion like an Holland cheese , and no more teeth left than such as give a haut goust to her breath . 1. Pish ! give her but leave to put on .... the long patch under the left eye ; awaken the roses on ...
... your coachman . » She has a complexion like an Holland cheese , and no more teeth left than such as give a haut goust to her breath . 1. Pish ! give her but leave to put on .... the long patch under the left eye ; awaken the roses on ...
Page 54
... your toe under the table , or rubbing knees with you , and staring in your face , till you saw me , and then looking down and blushing for an hour together , etc. » — between my lips . » 2. Dans le Plain dealer . " Why , he put the tip ...
... your toe under the table , or rubbing knees with you , and staring in your face , till you saw me , and then looking down and blushing for an hour together , etc. » — between my lips . » 2. Dans le Plain dealer . " Why , he put the tip ...
Page 58
... your husband was lawful , since in your own defence . OLIVIA . What deceit ? I'd have you to know I never deceived my husband . ELIZA . You do not understand me , sure . I say , this was an honest Il est un personnage qui montre en ...
... your husband was lawful , since in your own defence . OLIVIA . What deceit ? I'd have you to know I never deceived my husband . ELIZA . You do not understand me , sure . I say , this was an honest Il est un personnage qui montre en ...
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Absalon et Achitophel Addison Almanzor ANGL anglais Angleterre ANTONY appear beau beauté belle better chose classique Cléopatre cœur comédie conversation country courtisans dames Dieu Dryden esprit eyes femme first gens gentlemen give good goût Grammont great hand heart homme honour husband idées kind kiss know l'amour l'art l'esprit l'homme lady life LITT little livres sterling look lord lord Chatam love made make man of quality ment MILLAMANT Mirabell MISS PRUE mistress mœurs Molière mondaine monde morale Nacki Nacky naturel never nobles passions pensée personnages philosophie phrases plaisir pleasure poëme poésie poëte poli public puritains qu'un raison religion restauration anglaise reste right Rochester salon satire scène seest sent seul Shakspeare sorte Spectator style sweet take talent TATTLE théâtre thing think thou thought time tion Vanbrugh VENTIDIUS vice voilà whigs whole wife woman words world Wycherley
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Page 326 - ... mercenary aid on which you rely, for it irritates, to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies, to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder, devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never!
Page 231 - Beggar'd by fools, whom still he found too late ; He had his jest, and they had his estate.
Page 414 - There were, indeed, some persons, but their number was very small, that continued a kind of hobbling march on the broken arches, but fell through one after another, being quite tired and spent with so long a walk.
Page 326 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract ; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent oppressive acts ; they must be repealed — you will repeal them ; I pledge myself for it, that you will in the end repeal them ; I stake my reputation on it — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed.
Page 416 - I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands. At length, said I, show me now, I beseech thee, the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant.
Page 229 - Great wits are sure to madness near allied; And thin partitions do their bounds divide: Else why should he, with wealth and honour blest, Refuse his age the needful hours of rest?
Page 352 - Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.
Page 415 - ... falling waters, human voices, and musical instruments. — Gladness grew in me upon the discovery of so delightful a scene. I wished for the wings of an eagle, that I might fly away to those happy seats; but the genius told me there was no passage to them, except through the gates of death that I saw opening every moment upon the bridge. —
Page 231 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long ; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 229 - Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place; In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay...