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He will watch from dawn to gloom The lake-reflected sun illume The yellow bees in the ivy bloom; Nor heed nor see what things they be, But from these create he can Forms more real than living man, Nurslings of immortality. See De Stendhal, Histoire de la Peinture en Italie, p. 143, for this story. In the Treatise on Painting, da Vinci argues strongly against isolating man.
Letter of a friend of Beaumarchais: "This letter costs you at least one hundred francs, including paper, pen, ink, and lamp-oil. Ibid., 104. "Bread is made with coarse, sticky black flour, because they put in potatoes, beans, Indian corn and millet, and moreover it is badly baked." Granier de Cassagnac, "Histoire du Directoire," I., 51.
It is just that fragment which some scholars, since the first appearance of this volume, have asserted upon what perfect frankness must describe as not indisputable grounds to be a portion of the thirty-second chapter of the complete form of La Haulte Histoire de Jurgen. And in reply to what these scholars assert, discretion says nothing.
I must get M. Thureau's 'Histoire de la Monarchic de Juillet, of which I never even heard. It is dreadful to reflect how utterly behindhand one gets in all things, literary, artistic, and political, through long sojourns out of Europe. But I do hope there is some prospect of M. de Sainte-Aulaire's Memoirs themselves being published at full length.
M. D'Arve tells the story briefly in his HISTOIRE DU MONT BLANC. In the next chapter I will copy its chief features. A Catastrophe Which Cost Eleven Lives On the 5th of September, 1870, a caravan of eleven persons departed from Chamonix to make the ascent of Mont Blanc. Three of the party were tourists; Messrs. Randall and Bean, Americans, and Mr.
REFERENCES. Fletcher's History of Poland. Rulhière's Histoire de l'Anarchie de Pologne. Coyer's Vie de Sobieski. Parthenay's History of Augustus
Jules Sauzay, "Histoire de la persecution revolutionaire dans le Doubs," vols. Moniteur, October, and November, 1793, passim. It is well to add, perhaps, that one of his cures now in Paris has called on him, and that he came to request him to second his marriage. The name of the said cure is Greffier Sauvage; he is still in Paris, and is preparing to be married the same time as himself.
Amsterdam, 1717. 8 vol. 12mo. Lettres Edifiantes et Curieuses. Paris, 1780, 1781. 24 vols. 12mo. Mémoires Orientales. Paris, 1789. 12mo. Collection Portative de Voyages, traduit de différentes Langues Orientales et Europiennes. Par Langles. Paris, 3 vols. 18mo. Histoire Générale des Voyages. Par Prevot. Paris, 20 vols. 4to.
The best summary account of the poet's life and writings which I have met with is Ginguéné's, in the fifth volume of his Histoire Littéraire, &c. It is written with his usual grace, vivacity, and acuteness, and contains a good notice of the Tasso controversy. The word for "leader" in the original, duce, made the allusion more obvious.
I called him back, and told him that I had caught a glimpse of a copy of the "Histoire d'Estelle et de Nemorin," which he had among his books; that I was very fond of shepherds and shepherdesses, and that I would be quite willing to purchase, at a reasonable price, the story of these two perfect lovers.
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