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Certes, sir Edwin Arnold pâtit de la comparaison inévitable qu'on ne peut s'empêcher de faire entre son œuvre et l'œuvre d'Edward Fitzgerald, et certainement Fitzgerald n'eut jamais écrit un vers comme celui-ci: «utterly wotting all their innermosts;» (il connaît
Our ulterior purpose is to transmit the portrait to the speakers of our Congress, and to request for it place in the library of that body, as a permanent memorial of the profound respect which we entertain for your personal character and intellectual trophies, and, in particular, of the gratitude which all Americans should feel for your liberal agency in exhibiting anew to Europe the true nature of their Revolution and the distinctive preeminence of its hero.
It appears to Her Majesty's government to be indispensable that the commission should be composed of individuals of high station and of enlightened views, men perfectly independent and well known for their attachment to the great cause of freedom and humanity.
The men drilling looked like lead soldiers when seen through the vitres dépolies par la buée, on account of their stiffness and the dimness of their outline in the early morning light. 71 7 ne sentait pas encore le lion: 'did not savor of lions yet', cf. cela sent le camphre 'that smells of camphor. 71 8 Plus au sud: not negative; cf. note to 13 1.
The History and Poetry of the Scottish Borders: their main Features and Relations, JOHN VEITCH. Glasgow, James Maclehose, 1878. The Feeling for Nature in Scottish Poetry, by JOHN VEITCH. 2 vols. William Blackwood and Sons, 1887. The Songstresses of Scotland, by SARAH TYTLER and J. L. WATSON, 2 vols. Edinburgh, H. B. Higgins, n. d. London, 1740.
That the English engaged in no war before they had full and satisfying evidence that it was just, nor before peace, upon just terms, had been offered and refused. That the Mohawks, not being subject to them, nor in league with them, they could not require an account of their proceedings, and had no means of information what they had to say for themselves.
Il faut lire, pour la partie physique, l'admirable livre de Archibald Geikie: The Scenery of Scotland, viewed in Connection with its physical Geology, où les qualités de l'écrivain égalent celles du savant; pour la partie littéraire et poétique, le très beau livre de John Veitch: The History and Poetry of the Scottish Border, their main features and relations, où il y a des pages d'un véritable amant et connaisseur de la nature.
Vendredi 6 avril. Le jeune Rothenstein qui fait un croquis de ma tête pour le livre: EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT (with Letters and Leaves from their Journals), que va publier
I find it very agreeable, well written, without being extremely polished, full of very delicate touches, and well worth more than a single reading; and what I especially notice is an exact representation of the persons composing the court and of their manner of life.
The conquest by Turkish pirates about 1500 A.D., with subordination to the Sultan of Turkey till 1669, brought in very few Turks; the pirates were a mixture of various Mohammedan nations with renegades from the Christian nations. The "Moors" of to-day in Algeria are their descendants; the ancient Moors were Berbers.
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