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Ce frére Vincent, religieux dominicain, lecteur et prédicateur de saint Louis, avoit été invité par ce prince
Armand, said to me: "A gentleman and a lady have been here, I said you were not at home, you had not said you would receive visitors; the gentleman left his name, he had no card with him." I read: Chopin et Madame Sand. After this I quarrelled for two months with Mr. Armand.
"jurisque secundi Ambitus impatiens, et summo dulcius unum Stare loco," than this child of fourteen has done in the following couplet, which, most judiciously, by reversing the two clauses, gains the power of fusing them into connection. "And impotent desire to reign alone, That scorns the dull reversion of a throne."
Now, I was swearing at a hard gallop. I have just been with those prudes, and when I come forth, I always find my throat full of curses, I must spit them out or strangle, ventre et tonnerre!" "Will you come and drink?" asked the scholar. This proposition calmed the captain. "I'm willing, but I have no money." "But I have!" "Bah! let's see it!"
He heard Latin words, which he did not understand, pass over him, so slowly that he was able to catch them one by one: "Qui dormiunt in terrae pulvere, evigilabunt; alii in vitam aeternam, et alii in approbrium, ut videant semper." A child's voice said: "De profundis." The grave voice began again: "Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine." The child's voice responded: "Et lux perpetua luceat ei."
That which was prohibited becomes permissible, the code is altered, and words acquire a meaning they never had before, et cetera, et cetera.
Luke xxiii. 28: "Filiae Jerusalem, nolite flere super Me, sed super vos ipsas flete." St. Matt. xxvii. 32: "Hunc angariaverunt ut tolleret crucem Ejus." St. John x. 20: "Daemonium habet et insanit: quid Eum auditis?" Sap. v. 4: "Nos insensati vitam illorum aestimabamus insaniam." 18th Oct. 1562.
«Si toutes les montagnes, et les Alpes par exemple, avoient tous les autres caractères qu'exige une telle formation celui-l
Champollion-Figeac, chaps, v. and vi. Ibid., p. 364; Works, i. 172. Champollion-Figeac, p. 364: "Jeter de l'argent aux petis enfans qui estoient au long de Bourbon, pour les faire nonner en l'eau et aller querre l'argent au fond." Champollion-Figeac, p. 387. "Nouvelle Biographie Didot," art. "Marie de Clèves"; Vallet, "Charles VII.," iii. 85, note 1. Champollion-Figeac, pp. 383-386.
He himself often resembled Lady Bolingbroke's Lively description of Pope; that 'he was un politique aux choux et aux raves. He would say, 'I dine to-day in Grosvenor-square; this might be with a Duke: or, perhaps, 'I dine to-day at the other end of the town: or, 'A gentleman of great eminence called on me yesterday. He loved thus to keep things floating in conjecture: Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.
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