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My visits to Mr. Walker first gave me the idea of making the negro describe his own character in a collection of purely Hamitic proverbs and idioms. It appeared to me that, if ever a book aspires to the title of "l'Africain peint par lui-meme," it must be one in which he is the medium to his own spirit, the interpreter to his own thoughts.
Monckton, one of Wolfe's Brigadier-Generals, then crossed over the arm of the river with a strong detachment, took possession of Peint Levi, threw up entrenchments, and planted batteries along the southern shore. In effecting this manoeuvre a body of 1,200 Canadians were dislodged and repulsed, and the British gained an advantageous position for attacking the citadel.
Mais c'est un mot! Do let me repeat it to my friend Ladislas. Vous savez, he is writing a society novel, read me some of it. Charming! Nous aurons enfin le grand monde russe peint par lui-meme." "Where is it to be published? "In the 'Russian Messenger', of course. It is our 'Revue des Deux Mondes'. I see you take it, by the way." "Yes, but I think it rather dull of late." "Perhaps, perhaps it is.
C'�tait un entrain, une pr�cision et des sailles, une richesse de citations, une exactitude de d�tails qui faisait couler les heures; et quelquefois le petit cercle de ses intimes l'�coutait jusqu'� minuit, sans qu'un moment de fatigue se f�t peint sur ses traits ou que le feu de son regard se f�t un instant amorti.
Il eut l'emploi qui certes n'est pas mince, Et qu'a la cour, ou tout se peint en beau, On appelloit etre l'ami du prince; Mais qu'a la ville, et surtout en province, Les gens grossiers ont nomme maquereau.
Another man looks at the book over the lady's shoulder, and two little children's faces appear at her knee. The verses are as follows: Pour nous prouver que cette belle Trouve l'hymen un noeud fort doux Le peintre nous la peint fidelle À suivre le ton d'un Époux.
Some of his verse has reached posterity, for instance the "Ballads du Paradis Peint," which he wrote on white vellum, and illustrated himself with illuminations in red, blue and gold, for the Dauphin. It ends thus in the English version of a Balliol scholar:
Hoare zays you're studying anatomy; that's no use Sir Joshua didn't know it. Why should you want to know what he didn't? 'But Michael Angelo did, sir. 'Michael Angelo! what's he tu du here? You must peint portraits here! Haydon was roused to opposition. 'But I won't! 'Won't, screamed the little man, 'but you must! Your vather isn't a moneyed man, is he?
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