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"Thank you." "'O toi que sur le trone un feu celeste enflamme Des moi si ce grand art don't nous sommes epris, Est aussi difficile a Pekin qu'a Paris. Ton peuple est-il soumis a cette loi si dure, Qui vent qu'avec six pieds d'une egale mesure De deux Alexandrins, cote a cote marchants L'un serve pour la rime, et l'autre pour le sens?
And she was, moreover, genuinely attached to her roots. Her girlhood shyness rudeness, some called it, mistaking the effect for the cause had refined into a manner that might be characterized as 'difficile', though Hodder had never found her so.
"Your master is very thoughtful," said Lady Esmondet. One of the household now ushered them to their respective apartments. "What an air of complete comfort pervades the whole place, said Vaura. "Yes," said Lady Esmondet, "I am rather difficile in such matters, but I must confess, the place is charming in its warmth and luxury."
It was he and his wife, whom he married in 1797, who gave to Holland House a world-wide celebrity as a gathering place of eminent people. In Selwyn's lifetime he was only a youth. I am sure, that if he had not been so, he would have been difficile a contenter. But yet, it is a doubt with me, if he and I are equally delighted with the same objects.
La voie d'Afrique est extrêmement difficile,
"That I be allowed to see Nancy, and that she herself shall ask me to do as you desire." For a moment Madame de la Fontaine was silent. "Eh bien," she said at last, "you do not trust me?" "But, dear madame, think of my situation, it is hard for me." "Ah! I know it, believe me. C'est difficile. But I hoped you would trust me as I have you."
Alors nous aurions pu, si cela vous eut convenu, offrir a mesdemoiselles vos filles ou du moins a l'une des deux une position qui eut ete dans ses gouts, et qui lui eut donne cette douce independance si difficile a trouver pour une jeune personne.
That would, indeed, be double-edged praise to give to most men: but with Johnson it is absolutely true without being in the least damaging. For his talk is always talk, not writing or preaching; and it is always his own. That dictum of Horace which he and Wilkes discussed at the famous dinner at Dilly's, Difficile est proprie communia dicere, gives the exact praise of Johnson as a talker.
"You are very difficile, Josephi I mean Joe, I forgot." "Ye es, very diffyseal that sort of thing," repeated Josephine, mimicking her aunt's pronunciation of the foreign word, "I know I am, I can't possibly help it, you know." A dashing thrust with the tongs finally destroyed the equilibrium of the fire, and the coals came tumbling down upon the hearth.
And, speaking as if to myself, I said, 'Then I'll go to such a person; then I'll use such and such ways and means. "Looking up from his writing at me, with a look such as I had never seen from him before, he replied, in the words of a celebrated minister, 'C'est facile de se servir de pareils moyens, c'est difficile de s'y resoudre.
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