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... made , SOLIMAN . SOLIMAN , ce fier souverain des Turcs , dont les talens étaient fort grands et l'ambition sans bornes , attaqua la Hongrie , et prit Belgrade , qu'on regardait comme le boulevard de la Chrétienté . Il venait de faire ...
... made , SOLIMAN . SOLIMAN , ce fier souverain des Turcs , dont les talens étaient fort grands et l'ambition sans bornes , attaqua la Hongrie , et prit Belgrade , qu'on regardait comme le boulevard de la Chrétienté . Il venait de faire ...
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... made a suit- able reparation , dommage damage , aurait dû ought to have , em- pêcher prevented . NOBLE EFFORT D'UN FILS DE CRÉSUS . CRÉSUS , roi de Lydie , eut un fils nommé Atys ; il était d'une rare beauté , et paraissait avoir ...
... made a suit- able reparation , dommage damage , aurait dû ought to have , em- pêcher prevented . NOBLE EFFORT D'UN FILS DE CRÉSUS . CRÉSUS , roi de Lydie , eut un fils nommé Atys ; il était d'une rare beauté , et paraissait avoir ...
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... made , aisément easily , comprendre under- stand , était had , tombée fallen , chère dear , écrivit wrote , mandat order , chargea commanded , porter carry , intendant steward , celui- ci the latter , avoir having , ouvert opened ...
... made , aisément easily , comprendre under- stand , était had , tombée fallen , chère dear , écrivit wrote , mandat order , chargea commanded , porter carry , intendant steward , celui- ci the latter , avoir having , ouvert opened ...
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... made a mis- take , faire cesser put an end , contestation dispute , aller to go , parler to speak , en reprenant taking back , avez raison are in the right , m'étais had , procédé conduct , au lieu instead , cinq five , cents hundred ...
... made a mis- take , faire cesser put an end , contestation dispute , aller to go , parler to speak , en reprenant taking back , avez raison are in the right , m'étais had , procédé conduct , au lieu instead , cinq five , cents hundred ...
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... made , faisait caused , même same , fit ordered , raser to be razed , paroles words . L'EMPEREUR KAN - NGAI - TI . L'EMPEREUR Kan - ngai - ti se promenant un jour dans la ménagerie , accompagné de plusieurs de ses femmes , un ours força ...
... made , faisait caused , même same , fit ordered , raser to be razed , paroles words . L'EMPEREUR KAN - NGAI - TI . L'EMPEREUR Kan - ngai - ti se promenant un jour dans la ménagerie , accompagné de plusieurs de ses femmes , un ours força ...
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Page 280 - Unskilful he to note the card Of prudent lore, Till billows rage, and gales blow hard, And whelm him o'er ! Such fate to suffering worth is...
Page 298 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 300 - What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord." "And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so,
Page 274 - Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale, And nightly to the listening earth Repeats the story of her birth ; Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 316 - And hitting and splitting, And shining and twining, And rattling and battling, And shaking and quaking, And pouring and roaring, And waving and raving...
Page 278 - Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem. Alas ! it's no thy neebor sweet, The bonnie Lark, companion meet! Bending thee 'mang the dewy weet! Wi' spreckl'd breast, When upward-springing, blythe, to greet The purpling east.
Page 284 - Go, let oblivion's curtain fall Upon the stage of men, Nor with thy rising beams recall Life's tragedy again. Its piteous pageants bring not back Nor waken flesh, upon the rack Of pain anew to writhe , Stretch'd in disease's shapes abhorr'd Or mown in battle by the sword, Like grass beneath the scythe.
Page 284 - What though beneath thee man put forth His pomp, his pride, his skill ; And arts that made fire, flood, and earth, The vassals of his will ; — Yet mourn I not thy parted sway, Thou dim discrowned king of day...
Page 300 - ... his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold : Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, " What writest thou ?" The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 286 - Go, Sun, while Mercy holds me up On Nature's awful waste To drink this last and bitter cup Of grief that man shall taste — Go, tell the night that hides thy face, Thou saw'st the last of Adam's race, On Earth's sepulchral clod, The darkening universe defy To quench his Immortality, Or shake his trust in God ! A DREAM.