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Updated: June 28, 2025
In allusion to her love of flowers this quatrain was composed: "Josephiniana! this is the new flower Whose beauty catches my eye. To join the laurels of Caesar Nothing less is needed than an immortal flower." The Emperor was sung, too, in mythological language, for his flatterers tried to exhaust all sorts of adulation.
"You send me away," said Saint-Aignan, who was dying to know the name of the friend. "I do not send you away, my dear fellow. I am going to finish my lines to Phyllis." "And those lines " "Are a quatrain. You understand, I trust, that a quatrain is a serious affair?" "Of course."
The celebrity they acquired in the field of Venus may readily be imagined from a quatrain that was affixed in a conspicuous part of the Church of St. Hyacinthe, and which runs thus: "Femmes qui désirez de devenir enceinte Addressez cy vos vœux au grand Saint Hyacinthe, Et tout ce que pour vous le Saint ne pourra faire Les moines de céans pourront y satisfaire.
That quatrain may suffice to decorate our page. And in connection with his college days I may mention his first novel, a short romance entitled Fanshawe, which was published in Boston in 1828, three years after he graduated. It was issued anonymously, but he so repented of his venture that he annihilated the edition, of which, according to Mr.
I fancy I have perhaps more talent for electioneering than for poetry, and I was really getting extended over this quatrain business. The egg began to be unmanageable, and the Duchess suggested something with a French literary ring about it.
It is a question whether she did not even then exercise over Charles VII. that influence, serviceable alike to the honor of the king and of France, which was to inspire Francis I., a century later, with this gallant quatrain: "If to win back poor captive France be aught, More honor, gentle Agnes, is thy weed, Than ere was due to deeds of virtue wrought By cloistered nun or pious hermit-breed."
Such a thing does happen. She was the daughter of the most whimsical Marshal of France, and of that pretty Countess of to whom M. de Chateaubriand, after a night of love, composed this quatrain, which may now be published all the personages being dead.
There he stood, the moral support, the cool-headed adviser, surrounded by a crowd of brainless, empty-headed young fops, who were even now repeating from mouth to mouth, and with every sign of the keenest enjoyment, a doggerel quatrain which he had just given forth.
All the four-footed furniture comported itself as though it had but three legs the whitewashed walls had for their only ornament the following quatrain in honor of Mame Hucheloup: Elle etonne a dix pas, elle epouvente a deux, Une verrue habite en son nez hasardeux; On tremble a chaque instant qu'elle ne vous la mouche Et qu'un beau jour son nez ne tombe dans sa bouche.
Now a certain Stockbrew, imagining himself a poet, immortalised the occasion with the following stirring lyric: "Ruddy-doodle went to town In his little suit of brown, As he could not find his purse He cried aloud, 'Oh, where's my nurse?" Like the famous quatrain The Purple Cow, this poem immediately achieved a success totally out of proportion to its merits. It was passed slowly down the table.
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