Paris and the Parisians in 1835, Том 1

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R. Bentley, 1836 - 830 стор.

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Сторінка 311 - Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself?
Сторінка 364 - ... either of them should ever eat ; that for his bill, he must of necessity excuse the payment of it, as, in fact, they neither of them possessed a single sous ; that upon no other occasion would they have thus violated the customary etiquette between guest and landlord ; but that finding this world, with its toils and its troubles, unworthy of them, they had determined once more to enjoy a repast of which their poverty must for ever prevent the repetition, and then take leave of existence for ever...
Сторінка 129 - ... should be known and distinguished hereafter, as one in which patronage of office was relied on for political and personal support ? Is not this against all that you and I have written and spoken and repeated in every form within the last ten years ? I know, my dear sir, that I am addressing you freely ; but out of the fulness of the heart the mouth speaketh...
Сторінка 234 - C'est le retranchement de ces syllabes sales Qui dans les plus beaux mots produisent des scandales „ Ces jouets éternels des sots de tous les temps, Ces fades lieux communs de nos méchants plaisants, Ces sources d'un amas d'équivoques infâmes , Dont on vient faire insulte à la pudeur des femmes.
Сторінка 98 - the last scene of all that ends this strange eventful history," the curtain falls upon the enthusiastic attorney-general as he expires in the arms of his wife and friends.
Сторінка 74 - Neither do men put new wine into old bottles : else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish : but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
Сторінка 154 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Сторінка 15 - dtcomu ; ' and it seems to be the epithet given by the sober-minded to all that smacks of the rambling nonsense of the new school of literature, and of all those fragments of opinions which hang so loosely about the minds of the young men who discourse fashionably of philosophy in Paris.
Сторінка 165 - Un Pretre environne d'une foule cruelle, Portera sur ma Fille une main criminelle? Dechirera son sein? Et d'un ceil curieux Dans son coeur palpitant consultera les Dieux?
Сторінка 231 - ... struggle to the sufferings this evil entails upon them, — that people so circumstanced should have less refinement in their thoughts and words than ourselves, I hold to be natural and inevitable. Thus, you see, I have come round like a preacher to his text, and have explained, as I think, very satisfactorily, what I mean by saying that the indelicacy which so often offends us in France does not arise from any natural coarseness of mind, but is the unavoidable result of circumstances, which...

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