Studies in Early French Poetry

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Macmillan and Company, 1868 - French poetry - 319 pages

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Page 79 - No more, no more ! my heart doth faint When I the life recall Of her who lived so free from taint, So virtuous...
Page 40 - Pro Deo amur et pro christian poblo et nostro commun salvament, d'ist di in avant, in quant Deus savir et podir me dunat, si salvarai eo cist meon fradre Karlo, et in...
Page 38 - Le premier jour du mois de Mai Fut le plus heureux de ma vie ; Le beau dessein que je formai Le premier jour du mois de Mai. Je vous vis, et je vous aimai. Si ce dessein vous plut, Silvie, Le premier jour du moisde Mai Fut le plus heureux de ma vie.
Page 41 - Thou comest from Paris then, said Pantagruel ; and how do you spend your time there, you, my masters, the students of Paris...
Page 82 - Beau nez, dont les rubis ont coûté mainte pipe De vin blanc et clairet, Et duquel la couleur richement participe Du rouge et violet ; Gros nez! qui te regarde à travers un grand verre...
Page 286 - How often have I scaled the craggie Oke, All to dislodge the Raven of her nest ? How have I wearied with many a stroke The stately Walnut-tree, the while the rest Under the tree fell all for nuts at strife ? For ylike to me was libertee and lyfe.
Page 261 - And some said, Let them live ; some, Let them die, Some said, John print it ; others said, Not so : Some said, It might do good ; others said, No.
Page 229 - What can an old man do but die ? Love will not clip him, Maids will not lip him, Maud and Marian pass him by ; Youth it is sunny, Age has no honey, — What can an old man do but die...
Page 174 - Molinet n'est sans bruyt, ne sans nom non, , II a son son et comme tu vois, voix, Son doux plaid plaist...
Page 79 - Above her lieth spread a tomb Of gold and sapphires blue: The gold doth show her blessedness, The sapphires mark...

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