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For instance, the only two triolets which have survived from his "Trente deux Triolets joyeux and tristes" are an example of his twofold temperament. They run thus in the literal and exact translations of them made by an eminent official: I wish I was dead, And lay deep in the grave. I've a pain in my head, I wish I was dead.

On sait que la tristesse annonce le genie; Nous avons deja fait des progres etonnans, Que de tristes ecrits que de tristes romans! Des plus noires horreurs nous sommes idolatres, Et la melancolie a gagne nos theatres." "What!" cried I, "are you so well acquainted with my favourite book?" "Your's!" exclaimed Vincent. "'Tell us what hath chanced to-day, That Caesar looks so sad?"

Namque deos didici securum agere aevum, nec, siquid miri faciat natura, deos id tristes ex alto caeli demittere tecto. HORACE, Satires I., 5. Does it really seem to Mr. Wells an arid and damnable "atheism" that finds in the very mystery of existence a subject of contemplation so inexhaustibly marvellous as to give life the fascination of a detective story? When Mr.

The schoolmistress did not think that any one should read the "Prince Grenouille" before learning by heart the stanzas to Duperrier; and, carried away by her enthusiasm, she began to recite them in a voice sweeter than the bleating of a sheep: " Ta douleur, Duperrier, sera donc eternelle, Et les tristes discours Que te met en l'esprit l'amitie paternelle L'augmenteront toujours;

My astonishment swelled to the bursting point when the Colombian not only caught up the poem where the Lieutenant left off but topped it off with that peerless translation by Bonalde the Venezuelan, beginning: Una fosca media noche, cuando en tristes reflexiones Sobre mas de un raro infolio de olvidados cronicones And just then the quarantine launch swung around the neighboring island.

I stepped to the head and was attended to by the officials of the great and good French Government. Gad that's a good one. A good one on le gouvernement francais. Pretty good. Les rues sont tristes. Perhaps there's no Christmas, perhaps the French Government has forbidden Christmas. Clerk at Norton-Harjes seemed astonished to see me. O God it is cold in Paris.

He said, 'It does not hasten us a bit. It is getting on horseback in a ship . All boys do it; and you are longer a boy than others. He himself has no alertness, or whatever it may be called; so he may dislike it, as Oderunt hilarem tristes . Before we reached the harbour, the wind grew high again. However, the small boat was waiting and took us on board.

The Odes of Horace in the first three books, which are devoted to politics, show an attitude of antagonism and severe expostulation; he boldly rebukes vice, and calls upon the strong hand to punish it: "Quid tristes querimoniae, Si non supplicio culpa reciditur? Quid leges sine moribus Vanae proficiunt?"

All boys do it; and you are longer a boy than others. He himself has no alertness, or whatever it may be called; so he may dislike it, as Oderunt hilarem tristes. Before we reached the harbour, the wind grew high again. However, the small boat was waiting, and took us on board.

You will not wonder then, that I am afraid of being left to my own reflections: elles sont quelque fois fort tristes. Clubs are better for dissipation than consultation; all which being considered makes me wish myself not alone, or so much in public. I will not fatigue you with any more bavardise.