The Reliques of Father ProutG. Bell, 1889 - 580 pages |
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Page 239
... portrait : " Au boire je prends grand plaisir , Aussi fais - je en beau draps vestir : Oir de ménéstrel parolles , Vecir danses et carolles ; Violettes en leur saison , Et roses blanches et vermeilles ; Voye volontiers , car c'est ...
... portrait : " Au boire je prends grand plaisir , Aussi fais - je en beau draps vestir : Oir de ménéstrel parolles , Vecir danses et carolles ; Violettes en leur saison , Et roses blanches et vermeilles ; Voye volontiers , car c'est ...
Page 283
... portrait . " " Encore une étoile qui file , Qui file , file , et disparaît . " “ Mon fils , quels pleurs sont les nôtres ! D'un riche nous perdons l'ap- pui : L'indigence glane chez les autres , Mais elle moissonnait chez lui ! Ce soir ...
... portrait . " " Encore une étoile qui file , Qui file , file , et disparaît . " “ Mon fils , quels pleurs sont les nôtres ! D'un riche nous perdons l'ap- pui : L'indigence glane chez les autres , Mais elle moissonnait chez lui ! Ce soir ...
Page 490
... portrait— Peindre Caton galant , et Brutus dameret . " BOILEAU , A. P. chant iii . All this is done for the purpose of being read by sentimental spinsters , school - governesses , and linendrapers ' apprentices 490 FATHER PROUT'S RELIQUES .
... portrait— Peindre Caton galant , et Brutus dameret . " BOILEAU , A. P. chant iii . All this is done for the purpose of being read by sentimental spinsters , school - governesses , and linendrapers ' apprentices 490 FATHER PROUT'S RELIQUES .
Page 515
... portraits , are fixed in form , feature , and expression . Flesh and blood , confessedly , have not the durability of a marble bust ; the parlance of the ancients is effectually petrified . There is nothing " movable " in the ...
... portraits , are fixed in form , feature , and expression . Flesh and blood , confessedly , have not the durability of a marble bust ; the parlance of the ancients is effectually petrified . There is nothing " movable " in the ...
Page 575
... portrait in Blarney Castle , 90 . Chateaubriand ( Comtesse de ) , her song , " Va où la gloire t'invite , " 147 ; le Vi- comte de , a poem by , 256 . Chaucer , and Froissart , 239 ; copies from Petrarch , 240 ; complaint of , 241 ; Gri ...
... portrait in Blarney Castle , 90 . Chateaubriand ( Comtesse de ) , her song , " Va où la gloire t'invite , " 147 ; le Vi- comte de , a poem by , 256 . Chaucer , and Froissart , 239 ; copies from Petrarch , 240 ; complaint of , 241 ; Gri ...
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