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32 14 pour la première fois: cf. 13 26-27. 32 17 comme il y en a: 'such as there are', cf.49 8. 32 19
Parents, no more indulge the falling tear: Let Faith to heav'n's refulgent domes repair, There see your infant like a seraph glow: What charms celestial in his numbers flow Melodious, while the soul-enchanting strain Dwells on his tongue, and fills th' etherial plain? Enough forever cease your murm'ring breath;
LORD HOLLAND There was one part of the noble Duke's speech which had given him the greatest pleasure and which reflected the highest credit upon the noble Duke. He need hardly say that he alluded to the temper, the manliness and generosity with which the noble Duke had animadverted upon what had fallen from the noble marquis with regard to prince de Talleyrand.
They will see in it, and not unnaturally, nothing but a successful attempt of the revolutionary part to degrade Monarchy, supported by English jealousy of French influence. I am not at all surprised that Spaniards should view with suspicion any proceeding whatever on the part of France, and that they should imagine there was some intention to slight the Regent and his authority.
The professor's chair, however, does not seem to have been congenial to his tastes, for in 1836 he removed to Paris, determined to devote himself exclusively to literature. He took up his abode in the fourth story of a house in a retired part of the city, and of his life there he gives us charming glimpses in his "Philosophe sous les Toits."
52 10 Maugrabine: 'Maghrebi girl' Maghreb is the Arabic name of the western part of the north coast of Africa. 52 13 il n'y a qu'un Tarasconnais ... capable: lit. 'there is only a Tarasconian capable', transl. 'only a Tarasconian would be capable.
After the breaking-up of the Hôtel de Rambouillet, there were formed various smaller coteries, among which that of Mme. de La Fayette was by no means the least important. From her little circle of précieuses, Mme. de La Fayette was drawn to the Court of Louis XIV. chiefly through the friendship of "Madame," the Princess Henrietta of England.
92 1 La Allah il Allah: French transliteration of the Arabic words with which the Mohammedan confession of faith, 'There is no god but God, and Mohammed is God's messenger, begins. Both parts of this confession of faith, especially the first part, are repeated more than once in the muezzin's regular call.
There lieth a wreck on the dismal shore Of cold and pitiless Labrador; Where, under the moon, upon mounts of frost, Full many a mariner's bones are tost! You shadowy bark hath been to that wreck, And the dim blue fire, that lights her deck, Doth play on as pale and livid a crew As ever yet drank the church-yard dew!
That there was little congeniality between husband and wife cannot be doubted, yet Mme. de La Fayette's own letters go to prove that for a time at least she was not unhappy. In a letter to Ménage, written from Auvergne soon after her marriage, she says: "La solitude que je trouve ici m'est plutôt agréable qu'ennuyeuse.
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