"Vers" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Unies a present sous l'obeissance de sa dite Majeste le Roi d'Espagne; et pour leur procurer d'autant plus sur convoi, m'ait desire, comme Ambassadeur Extraordinaire de son Altesse Monseigneur le Protecteur de la Republique d'Angleterre, d'Ecosse, et d'Irlande, vers sa Majeste la Reine de Suede, de lui donner passeport: ces presents sont pour requerir tous ceux qui ont commandement par mer ou par terre, et tous officiers et autres de la dite Republique auxquels il peut appartenir, de permettre le porteur des presents, Joos Froidure, serviteur du dit Don ...
— A Journal of the Swedish Embassy in the Years 1653 and 1654, Vol II. • Bulstrode Whitelocke
... nous ordonnent de vivre et de combattre en citoyens d'un peuple libre, de marcher resolument dans l'ouragan de fer vers la paix qui se levera comme une belle aurore sur l'Europe affranchie des menaces de ses tyrans, et verra renaetre, faibles et timides encore, la JUSTICE et L'HUMANITE etouffees par le ...
— Defenders of Democracy • The Militia of Mercy
... "Son ombre vers mon lit a paru se baisser Et moi, je lui tendais les mains pour l'embrasser; Mais je n'ai plus trouve q'un horrible melange D'os et de chair meurtris et traines dans la fange, Des lambeaux pleins de sang, et des membres affreux Que les chiens ...
— The Pit • Frank Norris
... what the ancient Poets have deliver'd, concerning the different Ages, and other things, I shall not determine whether 'tis natural or not: because not only Theocritus, whose Shepherds are as well vers'd in History as other Men, and Virgil, whose Shepherds are often Philosophers, have gone in this way, but our Countryman Mr. Phillips also, whose excellency ...
— A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) • Thomas Purney
... "pith," but it is in reality a sort of bud at the top of the palm-tree, containing the last tender leaves, with flowers, and continuing in that state two years before it unfolds the flower; as appears from Boryd. St. Vincent Itiner. t. i. p. 223, vers. Germ., who gives his information on the authority of Du Petit Thouars. The French call it choux; the Germans, Kohl, Schneider. "By modern travellers it is called the cabbage of the palm; it 'is composed' (says Sir Joseph Banks) ...
— The First Four Books of Xenophon's Anabasis • Xenophon
... thus I am constrenyt, as neir I may, To hald his vers & go nane other way, Les sum history, subtill word, or the ryme Causith me make digressione ...
— Early Theories of Translation • Flora Ross Amos
... Boileau so ignorant or tasteless as to be incapable of appreciating good modern Latin. In the very letter to which Johnson alludes, Boileau says, "Ne croyez pas pourtant que je veuille par la blamer les vers Latins que vous m'avez envoyes d'un de vos illustres academiciens. Je les ai trouves fort beaux, et dignes de Vida et de Sannazar, mais non pas d'Horace et de Virgile." Several poems, in modern Latin, ...
— Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) • Thomas Babington Macaulay
... a ruined castle upon a mamelon, that rose like a volcanic cone from the plain. On the castle wall an immense wooden cross had been set, showing against the sky with an effect truly grand. The village was Vers, and the castle, which was built by the English, is called the ...
— Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine • Edward Harrison Barker
... the poems in this volume are written in what the French call "Vers Libre", a nomenclature more suited to French use and to French versification than to ours. I prefer to call them poems in "unrhymed cadence", for that conveys their exact meaning to an English ear. They are built upon ...
— Sword Blades and Poppy Seed • Amy Lowell
... me—these joys assured, in calm repose, With trembling hope, I wait my end of woes. Long vers'd in sufferings, I no more complain, Nor shall one tear my former patience stain. Long, long, has time, slow rolling, swept away The dear companions of my earlier day; So long, that memory scarce their names retains, ...
— Gustavus Vasa - and other poems • W. S. Walker
... repulsion by which a stranger is apt to be encountered. Still less do they mean those mental habits of suspicion, mystery and indirectness, which may infect communities as well as individuals. For these there is neither extenuation nor excuse. Rousseau has finely said: 'Le premier pas vers le vice est de mettre du mystere aux actions innocentes; et quiconque aime a se cacher, a tot ou tard raison de se cacher. Un seul precepte de morale peut tenir lieu de tous les autres, c'est celui-ci: Ne fais, ni ne dis jamais rien que tu ne veuilles que tout le monde voie ...
— The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 - Volume 23, Number 4 • Various
... rares que les mauvais precedes, ainsi les imputations d'imbecillite, de stupidite, furent prodiguees a Madame D——- le droit de raisonner, de prendre l'art a la conversation lui fut interdit... des relations avec d'autres femmes furent connues de l'epouse,et vers le mois de Decembre, 1828, ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks
... are knowing already and Vers'd in such things, I beseech you to take it only as a Memorandum; and to those who are yet unlearned, I presume they will reap some Benefit by these Directions; which is ...
— The Queen-like Closet or Rich Cabinet • Hannah Wolley
... is the general impression produced by the mass of these lighter epigrams. The bulk of them are of late date; and the culture of the ancient world was running low when its /vers de societe/ reached no higher level than this. Of course they can only be called poetry by a large stretch of courtesy. In a few instances the work is raised to the level of art by a curious Dutch fidelity and minute detail. In one given in this selection,[12] ...
— Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology • J. W. Mackail
... qu'il allait me suivre. Je le precedai, et comme il ne me suivait pas je m'arretai, pour l'attendre sur un terte exhausse d'ou l'on decouvre tout le pays. Je contemplais le canton que je dominais, plonge dans une douce reverie. J'en fus tire par des cris et je me retournai vers l'endroit d'ou ils partaient. Je vis M. le Baron d'Holbach environne d'une vieille femme et de deux villageois, l'un vieux comme elle et l'autre jeune. Tous trois, les larmes aux yeux, l'embrassaient hautement. Allez ...
— Baron d'Holbach • Max Pearson Cushing
... when the Periclean regime flourished, is worth your perusal. A particularly good version of this tale is rendered by Baron Vaerst in his book "Gastrosophie," Leipzig, 1854, who has based his version on the original translation from the Greek, entitled, Voyage du jeune Anacharsis en Grece vers le milieu du quatrieme siecle avant l'ere vulgaire par J. J. Barthelemy, Paris, 1824. Vaerst has amplified the excerpts from the young traveler's observations by quotations from other ancient Greek writers upon ...
— Cooking and Dining in Imperial Rome • Apicius
... Voltaire (Works, xii. 212) describes this book as 'Une Philippique contre Dieu.' He wrote to M. Saurin:—'Ce maudit livre du Systeme de la Nature est un peche contre nature. Je vous sais bien bon gre de reprouver l'atheisme et d'aimer ce vers: "Si Dieu n'existait pas, il faudrait l'inventer." Je suis rarement content de mes vers, mais j'avoue que j'ai une tendresse de pere ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 5 • Boswell
... Lyrics" belongs to that school of which the other chief representatives, in English or American literature, have been Praed, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Mr Austin Dobson. It has always been the fashion to class him with the first named of the trio as a writer of "occasional verse" or "vers de societe." These titles, like other parts of the nomenclature of the poetic art, are not satisfying. Why "smoothly written verse, where a boudoir decorum is or ought always to be preserved: where sentiment never surges into passion, and where humour never overflows ...
— London Lyrics • Frederick Locker
... la science et la philosophie parmi les peuples de l'antiquite; il n'a une grande position ni politique ni militaire. Ses institutions sont purement conservatrices; les prophetes, qui representent excellemment son genie, sont des hommes essentiellement reactionnaires, se reportant toujours vers un ideal anterieur. Comment expliquer, au sein d'une societe aussi etroite et aussi peu developpee, une revolution d'idees qu'Athenes et Alexandrie n'ont pas ...
— Chips From A German Workshop - Volume I - Essays on the Science of Religion • Friedrich Max Mueller
... of daily verse our times produce this volume utters itself with a range and brilliancy wholly remarkable. I cannot see that Miss Lowell's use of unrhymed 'vers libre' has been surpassed in English. Read 'The Captured Goddess', 'Music', and 'The Precinct. Rochester', a piece of mastercraft in this kind. A wealth of subtleties and sympathies, gorgeously wrought, full of macabre effects (as many of the poems are) and brilliantly worked out. ...
— A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass • Amy Lowell
... mind that White names every square on the board, in accordance with its relative position to one of his eight Pieces, and that Black does the same. Hence it follows that Black's first squares are White's eighth, and vice vers. ...
— The Blue Book of Chess - Teaching the Rudiments of the Game, and Giving an Analysis - of All the Recognized Openings • Howard Staunton and "Modern Authorities"
... married in 1843 Paul Ackermann, an Alsatian philologist. After little more than two years of happy married life her husband died, and Madame Ackermann went to live at Nice with a favourite sister. In 1855 she published Contes en vers, and in 1862 Contes et poesies. Very different from these simple and charming contes is the work on which Madame Ackermann's real reputation rests. She published in 1874 Poesies, premieres poesies, poesies philosophiques, a volume of sombre ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... wohl[7-12] hinter dem blauen Schleier sein? Er trumte sich in den Gedanken hinein und zuletzt ward[7-13] der Schleier bei seiner Flatterhaftigkeit[7-14] festgehalten und mittelst einer Stecknadel ihm ein beschriebener Zettel angesteckt. Der Vers war von den dreien ...
— Eingeschneit - Eine Studentengeschichte • Emil Frommel
... patrie, La jour de gloire est arrive. De la Paix, de la Paix cherie, L'etendard brillant est leve! (bis) Entendez-vous vers nos frontieres, Tous les peuples ouvrant leurs bras, Crier a nos braves soldats: Soyons unis, nous sommes freres! Plus d'armes, citoyens, rompez vos bataillons! Chantez, Chantons! Et que la Paix feconde ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. • Various
... in Nyons kept goats for milk, and, quaintly enough, they fed them on the dried mulberry leaves the silkworms had left over. For every one reared silkworms too, a most lucrative industry. The French speak of "making" silkworms (faire des vers-a-soie). Lucrative as it is, it would never succeed in England even if the white mulberry could be induced to grow, for successful silkworm rearing demands such continual watchfulness and meticulous attention as only French people can give; English people "couldn't be bothered" to expend ...
— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton
... "Correct," the young vers librist said. "Whatever pops into my head I write, and have but one small fetter: I start each line ...
— Something Else Again • Franklin P. Adams
... experiments have been made in America, and in Georgia particularly, and silk has been raised continuously for over a century, these diseases (maladies des vers a soile) have never made ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 324, March 18, 1882 • Various
... and old people were most susceptible of Religion, as if it sprung and derived its credit from our weakness."[83] And we find M. Comte himself complaining, somewhat bitterly, that his quondam friend, the celebrated St. Simon, had exhibited, as he advanced in years (cette tendance banale vers une vague religiosite), a tendency towards something like Religion.[84] Cases of this kind are utterly fatal to his supposed law of individual development, and they must be equally fatal to his theory of the progress of ...
— Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws • James Buchanan
... qu'ils y trouveraient eux-memes un refuge contre le fleau qui les poursuivait. Mais Dieu changea cette nuee en un feu qui se precipita sur leurs tetes. Mountassir, fils d'el-Moundir el-Medeni, a parle de ce peuple et a deplore son triste sort dans des vers ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton
... and crystalline basalt, form the main skeleton of the island. M. Bailly ("Voyage aux Terres Australes" tome 1 page 54.) states that they all "se developpent autour d'elle comme une ceinture d'immenses remparts, toutes affectant une pente plus ou moins enclinee vers le rivage de la mer; tandis, au contraire, que vers le centre de l'ile elles presentent une coupe abrupte, et souvent taillee a pic. Toutes ces montagnes sont formees de couches paralleles inclinees du centre de l'ile vers la mer." These statements have been disputed, though not ...
— Volcanic Islands • Charles Darwin
... Francoise qui le termine; elle se fit religieuse a l'Hotel-Dieu. L'epouse de Jean Juchereau de la Ferte fut Marie nee en France, puisque son contrat de mariage en 1645 la dite "agee de 17 ans environ" ce qui reporte sa naissance vers 1628. Charles assiste et signe un contrat. Ce n'est pas Robert Giffard, mais son fils Joseph, dont le corps fut transporte a la cathedrale, le 31 ...
— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine
... principaux hommes politiques du pays, et des effets qui en resulterent.' (Ancien Regime, iii. i.) Thus Senac de Meilhan writes in 1795;—'C'est quand la Revolution a ete entamee qu'on a cherche dans Mably, dans Rousseau, des armes pour sustenter le systeme vers lequel entrainait l'effervescence de quelques esprits hardis. Mais ce ne sont point les auteurs que j'ai cites qui ont enflamme les tetes; M. Necker seul a produit cet effet, et determine l'explosion,' ... 'Les ecrits de Voltaire ont certainement nui a ...
— On Compromise • John Morley
... du feu file, ma cherie; La nuit vient de refroidir le temps" —"Adrien, m'a-t-on dit, ma mere, Gemit dans des cachots flottants. On repousse la main fletrie Qu'il etend vers an pain grossier." File, file, pauvre Marie, Pour secourir le prisonnier; File, file, pauvre Marie, File, file pour le prisonnier.' [Footnote: 'Le Prisonnier ...
— Castle Nowhere • Constance Fenimore Woolson
... Verbi ministerio usque ad mundi finem colligit, eosque praeclaris donis ornat, contra hostes (in quorum medio dominatur) fortiter defendit, ac tandem aeterna gloria et honore coronat. Fr. Gomar. Aral. prop. Obad. vers. ult. Is autem Jesus Christus, in N.T. exhibitus Rex. Qui ut cum patre habet regnum generale omnipotentiae: ita habet speciale, ...
— The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) • George Gillespie
... none of the Plantations are comparable for affording the vast Quantities of Naval Stores, as this Place does. There have been heretofore some Discoveries of rich Mines in the mountanous Part of this Country; but being remote from the present Settlement, and the Inhabitants not well vers'd in ordering Minerals, they have been laid aside 'till a more fit Opportunity happens. There are several noble Rivers, and spacious Tracts of rich Land in their Lordships Dominions, lying to the Southward, which are yet uninhabited, ...
— A New Voyage to Carolina • John Lawson
... had two alike. If she had lived to marry, some mischief-making scoundrel would have procured the indictment of her husband for bigamy. The preachers would have fought for her, and if converted separately, her Methodist end might have always been thrashing her Episcopal end, or vice vers. When she came to serve on a jury, nobody could have decided if there ought to be eleven others or only ten; and if she ever voted twice, the opposite party would have had her up for repeating; and if only once, she would have been read out of her own, for criminal apathy in the ...
— The Fiend's Delight • Dod Grile
... three stars in his belt which, as is well known, lie in a straight line pointing to Sirius. They are not so bright as Sirius, but they are sufficiently bright to attract attention. A long tradition gives them the name of the Three Kings. Dupuis (1) says: "Orion a trois belles etoiles vers le milieu, qui sont de seconde grandeur et posees en ligne droite, l'une pres de l'autre, le peuple les appelle les trois rois. On donne aux trois rois Magis les noms de Magalat, Galgalat, Saraim; et Athos, Satos, ...
— Pagan & Christian Creeds - Their Origin and Meaning • Edward Carpenter
... Rene Descartes sur un certain placard imprime aux Pays Bas vers la fin de l'annee, 1647.—Descartes, OEuvres. Ed. Cousin, x. ...
— Hume - (English Men of Letters Series) • T.H. Huxley
... unanimously elected by the Assembly a candidate to the chair of entomology, and at a following session (February 16th) De Blainville was unanimously elected a candidate for the chair of Molluscs, Vers et Zoophytes, and on the 16th of March the royal ordinance confirming those elections was received by ...
— Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution - His Life and Work • Alpheus Spring Packard
... lignes que je dois dicter, vaincu que je suis par la maladie, en vous faisant observer que vous rendriez service aux Colonies de la Grande-Bretagne en repandant la connaissance de ce livre, et des principes que j'etablis touchant la maladie des vers a soie. Beaucoup de ces colonies pourraient cultiver le murier avec succes, et, en jetant les yeux sur mon ouvrage, vous vous convaincrez aisement qu'il est facile aujourd'hui, nonseulement d'eloigner la maladie regnante, mais en ...
— Fragments of science, V. 1-2 • John Tyndall
... way, and a Voice, like that which Bossuet describes, crying inexorably from behind him "On, on!" [Footnote: "La loi est prononcee; il faut avancer toujours. Je voudrois retourner sur mes pas; 'Marche, Marche!' Un poids invincible nous entraine; il faut sans cesse avancer vers le precipice. On se console pourtant, parce que de tems en tems on rencontre des objets qui nous divertissent, des eaux courantes, des fleurs qui passent. On voudroit arreter; 'Marche, Marche!'"—Sermon sur la Resurrection.] ...
— Memoirs of the Life of Rt. Hon. Richard Brinsley Sheridan Vol 2 • Thomas Moore
... of this function is given to the chemistry of the changes, according to a French botanist, to whose carefully and richly illustrated volume I shall in future often refer my readers, "Vers l'epoque de la maturite, les fruits exhalent de l'acide carbonique. Ils ne presentent plus des lors aucun degagement d'oxygene pendant le jour, et respirent, pour ainsi dire, a la facon des animaux."—(Figuier, 'Histoire des Plantes,' p. 182. ...
— Proserpina, Volume 1 - Studies Of Wayside Flowers • John Ruskin
... 1790. La flottille russe s'avanca vers les sept heures; il en etait neuf lorsqu'elle se trouva a cinquante toises de la ville [d'Ismael]: elle souffrit, avec une constance calme, un feu de mitraille et ...
— The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 6 • Lord Byron
... the flame of frantic friction | | (of 'Rhyming Dictionary' leaves) rises, phoenix-like, | | another idea, somewhat like the first, its illegitimate | | child, so to say, and thus more beautiful. | | | | "With vers libre one experiences the mortification one | | sometimes feels in having roared out one's agony in | | perfectly fit terms. With rhymed poetry one feels the | | satisfaction of a wit who gives the nuance of his meaning by | | the raise of an eyebrow, ...
— The Principles of English Versification • Paull Franklin Baum
... battrai pas; je te cede la place. Si Venus est ma soeur, L'Amour est de ma race. Je sais faire des vers. Un instant de perdu N'offense pas L'Amour, si ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
... the differences between the several breeds are taken, when not stated to the contrary, from M. Robinet's excellent work (8/70. 'Manuel de l'Educateur de Vers a Soie' 1848.), which bears every sign of care and large experience. The EGGS in the different races vary in colour, in shape (being round, elliptic or oval), and in size. The eggs laid in June in the south of France, and in July in the ...
— The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication - Volume I • Charles Darwin
... literary remains of Johann Christ Hofmann[15] in Coburg was found the "patent" of an order of "Sanftmuth und Vershnung." A "Lorenzodose" was found with it marked XXVIII, and the seven rules of the order, dated Coburg "im Ordens-Comtoir, den 10 August, 1769," are merely a topical enlargement and ordering of Jacobi's original idea. Longo gives them ...
— Laurence Sterne in Germany • Harvey Waterman Thayer
... chap. vii. vers. 11, 12. 'She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house. Now is she without, now in the streets, and lieth in wait ...
— The Zincali - An Account of the Gypsies of Spain • George Borrow
... edition, p. 245. Oldys, in his MSS. Notes on Langbaine, says the same story is in Painter's Palace of Pleasure, vol. i., and a French novel called "Guiscard et Sigismonde fille de Tancredus Prince de Salerne mis en Latin. Par Leon Arretin, et traduit in vers Francois, par Jean Fleury." [See Brunet, dern. edit. v. Aretinus, Hazlitt's edit. of Warton, 1871, and ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VII (4th edition) • Various
... And when of nothing 'twas begun, Rais'd funds as strange to carry 't on; 830 Trepann'd the State, and fac'd it down With plots and projects of our own; And if we did such feats at first, What can we now we're better vers'd? Who have a freer latitude, 835 Than sinners give themselves, allow'd, And therefore likeliest to bring in, On fairest terms, our discipline; To which it was reveal'd long since, We were ordain'd by Providence; 840 When three ...
— Hudibras • Samuel Butler
... of the world ... in unmixed delight" is on a slip pasted over the middle of the page. Some of the obscured text is visible in the margin, heavily scored out. Also in the margin is "Canto IV Vers Ult," referring to the quotation from Dante's Paradiso. This quotation, with the preceding passage beginning "in whose eyes," ...
— Mathilda • Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
... celui-ci? Qu'ai-je donc de commun avec un vil artiste? Un ouvrier francais, un Bibliopegiste? Ose-t-on ravaler un Ministre a ce point? Que me veut ce Lesne? Je ne le connais point. Je crois me souvenir qu'a mon voyage en France, Avec ses pauvres vers je nouai connaissance. Mais c'est si peu de chose un poete a Paris! Savez-vous bien, Monsieur, pourquoi je vous ecris? C'est que je crois avoir le droit de vous ecrire. Fussiez-vous cent fois plus qu'on ne saurait le dire, Je vois dans un Ministre ...
— A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One • Thomas Frognall Dibdin
... what Dryden condemns: "Il semble qu'on entende Henriette d'Angleterre elle-meme parlant au marquis de Vardes. La politesse de la cour de Louis XIV., l'agrement de la langue Francaise, la douceur de la versification la plus naturelle, le sentiment le plus tendre, tout se trouve dans ce peu de vers." After Dryden had broken away from the heroic style, he speaks out more plainly. In the Preface to his "All for Love," in reply to some cavils upon "little, and not essential decencies," the decision about which he refers to a master of ceremonies, he goes on to say: "The French poets, ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell
... vielle, le soir a la chandelle Assise aupres du feu devisant et filant, Direz, chantant mes vers en vous esmerveillant, Ronsard m'a celebre ...
— Ballads • William Makepeace Thackeray
... cet etat par les esprits qui viennent du cerveau en abondance, comme polir couvrir l'aine et la defendre du mal qu'elle craint; la bouche fort ouverte fait voir le saisissement du coeur, par le sang qui se retire vers lui, ce qui l'oblige, voulant respirer, a faire un effort qui est cause que la bouche s'ouvre extremement, et qui, lorsqu'il passe par les organes de la voix, forme un son qui n'est point articule; que si les muscles et les veines ...
— The Expression of Emotion in Man and Animals • Charles Darwin
... God of day: to his they join Latona's name, and Artemis, far fam'd For her fleet arrows and unerring bow. Of heroes next, and heroines, they sing, And deeds of antient prowess. Crowds around, Of every region, every language, stand In mute applause, sooth'd with the pleasing lay. Vers'd in each art and every power of speech, The Delians mimick all who come: to them All language is familiar: you would think The natives spoke of every different clime. Such are their winning ...
— A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. • Jacob Bryant
... La desolation des eglises, monasteres hopitaux en France vers le milieu du xv'ieme siecle, Macon, 1897, ...
— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France
... qui sourit et qui donne Et qui vient vers qui l'attend Pourvu que vous soyez bonne, Sera content. Le monde ou tout etincelle, Mais ou rien n'est enflamme, Pourvu que vous soyez belle, Sera charme. Mon coeur, dans l'ombre amoureuse, Ou l'enivrent deux beaux yeux, Pourvu que ...
— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett
... introduced short summary of the history of the covenant-people, in chap. vi., there is, after the announcement of the impending complete desolation of the country and the carrying away of its inhabitants in vers. 11, 12, the indication of a second judgment which will not less make an end, in ver. 13: "But yet there is a tenth part in it, and it shall again be destroyed;" and this goes hand in hand with ...
— Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 • Ernst Hengstenberg
... L'Ambassade de la Compagnie Orientale des Provinces Unies vers L'Empereur de la Chine, traduit par Jean le Charpentier a Leyde, 1665; ...
— The Essays Of Arthur Schopenhauer • Arthur Schopenhauer
... vous donne cent vers a copier!" said M. Bonzig, and his eyes quiveringly glittered through his glasses as he ...
— The Martian • George Du Maurier
... and see ye indeed, but perceive not. Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and convert, and be healed" (vers. 9, 10). The passage is quoted by Matthew (xiii. 14, 15). Dr. Randolph, as quoted by Horne, says on this passage, "This quotation is taken almost verbatim from the Septuagint. In the Hebrew the sense is obscured by false pointing. If instead ...
— The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election • Robert Wallace
... jusqu'a l'hiver prochain, aussi ma resolution est prise de faire le Voyage de la Boheme; voire en passant Dresde, Prague et Vienne, ou je scais que je puis gagner de quoi me defrayer de tout mon voyage, et au dela: et de revenir a Londres vers le Novembre, vous pouvez compter ladessus, mais surtout sur le plaisir que j'aurai de revoir et d'embrasser un ami tel que vous—Mardi prochain part d'ici pour Londres un commis de Mr. Parish un des premiers Banquiers d'ici qui vous ...
— The Pianoforte Sonata - Its Origin and Development • J.S. Shedlock
... by men, Vers'd in the thoughts of bard or sage, He yet had read from nature's hand, A book unwrit, yet ...
— Canada and Other Poems • T.F. Young
... que nous puissions faire, Je souffre; il est trop tard; le monde s'est fait vieux. Une immense esperance a traverse la terre; Malgre nous vers le ciel il faut ...
— A Selection From The Lyrical Poems Of Robert Herrick • Robert Herrick
... prose; cf. Plaut. Trin. 225 egomet me coquo et macero et defetigo; Verg. Aen. 7, 345 quam ... femineae ardentem curaeque iraeque coquebant; Quint. 12, 10, 77 sollititudo oratorem macerat et coquit. — VERS[A]T: we have here the original quantity of the vowel preserved, as in poneb[a]t below, 10; the a in versat was originally as long as the a in vers[a]s. Plautus has some parallels to this scanning ...
— Cato Maior de Senectute • Marcus Tullius Cicero
... endure.[Footnote: See Anatole France: Le Lys Rouge. "Moi, dit Choulette, je pense si peu a l'avenir terrestre que j'ai ecrit mes plus beaux poemes sur les feuilles de papier a cigarettes. Elles se sont facilement evanuies, ne laissant a mes vers qu'une espece d'existence metaphysique." C'etait un air de negligence qu'il se donnait. En fait, il n'avait jamais perdu une ligne de son ecriture.] Having put his substance into it, he desires its preservation as he does his own. ...
— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker
... the trees could be seen the blue draperies of women at work. Then the wires of the field-telephones and telegraphs on their elegantly slim bamboos were running alongside us. And once or twice, roughly painted on a bit of bare wood, we saw the sign: "Vers le Front." Why any sign should be necessary for such a destination I could not imagine. But perhaps humour had entered into the matter. At length we perceived Arras in the distance, and at a few kilometres it looked rather like itself: it might ...
— Over There • Arnold Bennett
... l'eglise l'armoire ou on enfermoit les livres, contre la coutume des autres monasteres de l'ordre, qui avoient cette armoire dans le cloitre. On y lit ces vers d'un caractere qui ...
— The Care of Books • John Willis Clark
... general du dix-huitieme siecle est la negation meme de la poesie ... l'amour de la Nature n'etait guerre autre chose qu'une haine deguisee et une declaration de guerre a la societe et a la religion. Il n'y a pai trace du sentiment legitime et profond qui attire l'artiste et le poete vers les splendeurs de la creation, revelatrices du monde invisible. Ne demandez pas an dix-huiteme siecle la poesie de la Nature, pas plus que celle du coeur.' Buffon shews 'l'etat poetique des sciences de la Nature,' but his brilliant prose painting ...
— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese
... by being very elaborate or tedious, would either require much skill, or exercise his patience. And yet that this sort of Experiments is exceedingly Numerous, and might more than a little inrich the History of Colours, those that are vers'd in Chymical processes, will, ...
— Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours (1664) • Robert Boyle
... now. Clearly she has forgotten the dim hopes which had begun in her when she talked with Jesus. Therefore He gently reminds her of these; for His words (ver. 40) can scarcely refer to anything but that interview, though the precise form of expression now used is not found in the report of it (vers. 25-27). ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren
... machen es mit vieler Ssse und messen gut der Verse Fsse, Ob kurz, ob lang sie mssen sein, auf dass es wrde glatt und fein. Auch darauf stets ihr Trachten geht, dass jede Silbe sicher steht, Und dass ein jeder Vers so klingt, wie jeder Versfuss es bedingt. Sie zhlen mit Genauigkeit die Lng' und Krze jeder Zeit, 25 Und sichre Grenzen sind gezogen, wonach das Silbenmass gewogen. Auch subern sie's mit rechter Reinheit und auch mit ausgesuchter Feinheit, So wie ein Mann mit Fleiss ...
— An anthology of German literature • Calvin Thomas
... Bible or of the enthusiastic mystics, or from the poetic half-prose of the pastoral poet Salomon Gessner, they were, in any case, something new and peculiar, and their nature has not been grasped in the least degree by the French in their "vers libres," or at any rate only since the half-Germanic Fleming Verhaeren. They received an interesting development through Goethe and Heinrich Heine, while most of the other poets who made use of them, even the greatest ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, • Editor-in-Chief: Kuno Francke
... indifference of the king, who seems to have been rather a roi faineant in the hands of his energetic maire du palais, and to have been contented to give, with a flourish of formality, as a command to Joseph, what Joseph had previously carefully suggested to him (vers. 6, 7). There is nothing unfair in all this. It is good, shrewd management, and no fault can be found with it; but it is a new trait in the ideal character of a servant of God, and contrasts strongly with the ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers • Alexander Maclaren
... come, and that the time to let loose the dogs of war—sea-dogs in this instance—had arrived. A committee was appointed to wait upon the captain next day. The following morning the excitement was at its highest pitch. It was not safe for an American to be seen conversing with an Englishman, or vice vers. ...
— In a Steamer Chair And Other Stories • Robert Barr
... ut supra in Le Bulletin des Recherches Historiques, Vol. II, p. 136, it is said: "Une annonce publiee dans la Gazette de Quebec vers: cette epoque (i.e., 1797) represente un negre courant a toutes jambes. 'Il est offert une recompense honnete a qui remenera a son maitre marchand de Trois Rivieres son esclave fugitif' Ce pauvre diable pensait sans ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 5, 1920 • Various
... donc, ainsi qu'elle l'avait dit; marchant de jour et se reposant de nuit, se dirigeant vers ...
— Welsh Fairy-Tales And Other Stories • Edited by P. H. Emerson
... word of God, and the memory of all his past deliverances. It is precisely this conflict of faith and fear which the psalm sets before us. It falls into three portions, the first and second of which are closed by a kind of refrain (vers. 4, 10, 11)—a structure which is characteristic of several of these Sauline persecution psalms (e.g., lvii. 5, 11; lix. 9, 17). The first part of each of these two portions is a vivid description of his danger, from ...
— The Life of David - As Reflected in His Psalms • Alexander Maclaren
... post, p. 177. For the despatches, &c., see G. Penn, Memorials of Penn, II. 322-333, 344-350. He also quotes a work published at Amsterdam in 1668 which says: 'Le Comte de Sandwich separa la flotte Hollandaise en deux vers l'une heure du midi.' He explains that by the order for the rear to tack first, Sandwich was leading, forgetting Coventry's despatch (ibid. p. 328), which tells how by that time the duke had taken Sandwich's place and was leading the line himself, ...
— Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 - Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. • Julian S. Corbett
... "Vers l'est de cette Isle il y a une petite plaine au haut d'une montagne, qu'on appelle la Plaine des Caffres, ou l'on trouve un gros oiseau bleu, dont la couleur est fort eclatante. Il ressemble a un pigeon ramier; il vole rarement, ...
— Notes & Queries, No. 22., Saturday, March 30, 1850 • Various
... l'usage, contre l'exterieur de la montagne, ou contre la vallee." Again, on the Pass of the Gries, Sec. 1738: "Le rocher presente des couches d'un schiste micace raye comme une etoffe; comme de l'autre cote ils surplombent vers le dehors de la montagne." Without referring to other passages I think Saussure's simple words, "suivant l'usage," are enough to justify my statement in Chap. XIV. Sec. 3; only the reader must of course always remember that every ...
— Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) • John Ruskin
... preparing themselves for swift sharp ascents. Sometimes, it is the drooping of pinions that sink brokenly. For all these pieces are "Poemes ailes," flights toward some island of the blest. They are all aspirations "vers la flamme," toward the spiritual fire of joy, toward the paradise of divine pleasure and divine activity. The Fifth Sonata is like the marshaling of forces, the mighty spring of some radiant flyer launching himself into the empyrean. White gleaming pinions wheel and hover in ...
— Musical Portraits - Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers • Paul Rosenfeld
... aggravaute."—Paschalis Papae Diploma, as quoted in L'Histoire de Sainte Cecile, par l'Abbe Gueranger. The simplicity of the old Pope's story is wofully hurt by the grandiloquence of the French Abbe: "Le Pontife ecoutait avec delices l'harmonie des Cantiques que l'Eglise fait monter vers le Seigneur au lever du jour. Un assoupissement produit par la fatigue des veilles saintes vient le saisir sur le siege meme ou il presidait dans la majeste apostolique," ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, April, 1858 • Various
... "Vers l'Eternel, des oppresses le pere, Je m'en iray, luy monstrant l'impropere Que l'on me fait; et luy ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... aig ro mheud aighir 's a sh['o]lais, by reason of his great joy and satisfaction, Smith's Seann d['a]na, p. 9; ag meud a mhiann through intense desire, Psal. lxxxiv. 2, metr. vers.; ag ...
— Elements of Gaelic Grammar • Alexander Stewart
... une autre maniere de filsoufes, et dient-il: 'Il n'est mie ne Diex ne Kerma ne courance vers le bien, ne Providence, ne Creerres, ne Sauvours, ne saintete ne pechies ne conscience de pechie, ne proyere ne response a proyere, il n'est nulle riens fors que trop minime grain ou paillettes qui ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... and ought to be esteemed accordingly: But if we give way to the Disuse of it, and even suffer Blank Verse to be brought in Competition with it, Poetry will in a short time be lost in England, as it has been long since in Italy, and, if I mistake not, from this very Cause. They have Blank-vers'd Homer, Virgil, and Milton, and I believe all the Classick Poets: And if we follow their Example in giving Applause to this kind of Verse, we must expect the same Consequences. We should be the more to blame in this respect, because we have lately had so many excellent ...
— Letters Concerning Poetical Translations - And Virgil's and Milton's Arts of Verse, &c. • William Benson
... finishing up with the word "Kabikaj" thrice repeated. This, he explains, "est le nom du genie prepose au regne des insectes. Les scribes, parfois, l'invoquent pour preserver leurs manuscrits de l'atteinte de vers." ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton
... vostre estole ... Sire Tardis li limacons Lut par lui sol les trois lecons Et Roenel chanta les vers. (Vol. ...
— A Literary History of the English People - From the Origins to the Renaissance • Jean Jules Jusserand
... p. 368. "Michelozzo parait avoir, dans ce tableau, de quarante-cinq a cinquante ans. Or, on suppose qu'il etait ne vers 1396, ce qui placerait l'execution de ce tableau tres-peu de temps avant le depart de l'artiste pour Rome, en ...
— Fra Angelico • J. B. Supino
... created much comment, and in spite of their bizarre features were taken seriously by well-known critics, who were much discomfited when the truth of the matter was known. In 1919 Mr. Bynner published "The Beloved Stranger", a volume of 'vers libre', written in a style that grew out of the "Spectra" experiment, but divested of ...
— The Second Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
... Art. 3.—Pour les baies, la mer territoriale suit les sinuosites de la cote, sauf qu'elle mesuree a partir d'une ligne droite tiree en travers de la baie, dans la partie la plus rapprochee de l'ouverture vers la mer, ou l'ecart entre les deux cotes de la baie est de douze milles marins de largeur, a moins qu'un usage continu et seculaire n'ait consacre une largeur plus grande. Art. 4.—En cas de guerre, l'etat riverain neutre a le droit de fixer, par ...
— Letters To "The Times" Upon War And Neutrality (1881-1920) • Thomas Erskine Holland
... Vaftrudnismal, Thrymsquidal, Skirnisfor, traduits en vers francais, accompagnes de notes explicatives des mythes et allegories, et suivis d'autres poemes par W.E. Frye, ancien major d'infanterie au service d'Angleterre, membre de l'Academie des Arcadiens de Rome. ...
— After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 • Major W. E Frye
... operas, and his words are worth quoting at some length: 'La langueur ordinaire ou je tombe aux operas, vient de ce que je n'en ai jamais vu qui ne m'ait paru meprisable dans la disposition du sujet, et dans les vers. Or, c'est vainement que l'oreille est flattee, et que les yeux sont charmes, si l'esprit ne se trouve pas satisfait; mon ame d'intelligence avec mon esprit plus qu'avec mes sens, forme une resistance aux impressions qu'elle peut recevoir, ou pour le moins elle manque d'y preter ...
— The Opera - A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions - of all Works in the Modern Repertory • R.A. Streatfeild
... edition with one final s, have two, while on the other hand words like vernall, youthfull, and monosyllables like hugg, farr, lose their double letter. Many monosyllables, e.g. som, cours, glimps, wher, vers, aw, els, don, ey, ly, so written in 1645, take on in 1673 an e mute, while words like harpe, windes, onely, lose it. By a reciprocal change ayr and cipress become air and cypress; and the vowels in daign, vail, neer, beleeve, sheild, boosom, eeven, battail, ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton
... succes de cette tragedie a ete si malheureux, que pour m'epargner le chagrin de m'en souvenir, je n'en dirai presque rien.—J'ajoute ici malgre sa disgrace, que les sentimens en sont assez vifs et nobles, les vers assez bien tournes, et que la facon dont le sujet s'explique dans la premiere scene ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. II • Edited by Walter Scott
... a very prominent part here. His role was to amuse, and his talents gave him great vogue, but at this distance his small vanities strike one much more vividly than the wit which flashed out with the moment, or the vers de societe on which his fame rests. He owed his social success to a rather high-flown love letter which he evidently thought too good to be lost to the world. He sent it to a friend, who had it printed and circulated. What the lady thought does not appear, but it made the fortune of the poet. ...
— The Women of the French Salons • Amelia Gere Mason
... Coeur-de-Lion, are monuments of English literature. To this day their ballad measure is better suited to English than to French; even the words and idioms are more English than French. Any one who attacks them boldly will find that the "vers romieus" run along like a ballad, singing their own meaning, and troubling themselves very little whether the meaning is exact or not. One's translation is sure to be full of gross blunders, but the supreme blunder is that of translating at all when one is trying ...
— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams
... a bien faire uniquement passee D'innocence, d'amour, d'espoir, de purete, Tant d'aspirations vers son Dieu repetees, Tant de foi dans la mort, tant de vertus jetees En ...
— Ellen Middleton—A Tale • Georgiana Fullerton
... Ribet says, "La mystique, comme science speciale, fait partie de la theologie ascetique"; that part, namely, "dans lequel l'homme est reduit a la passivite par l'action souveraine de Dieu." "L'ascese" is defined as "l'ascension de l'ame vers Dieu."] ...
— Christian Mysticism • William Ralph Inge
... deprecates that people praise "Archy the Vers Libre Cockroach" and clamour for more; while "Hermione," a careful and cutting satire on the follies of pseudokultur near the Dewey Arch, elicits only "a mild, mild smile." As ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley
... assez pour vous persuader que je suis indigne de vos bonnes graces et de votre souvenir que d'avoir manque fort longtemps a vous ecrire; il falloit encore retarder quinze jours a me donner l'honneur de repondre a votre lettre. En verite, Madame, cela me fait paroitre si coupable, que vers tout autre que vous j'aimeroix mieux l'etre en effet que d'entreprendre une chose si difficile qu' est celle de me justifier. Mais je me sens si innocente dans mon ame, et j'ai tant d'estime, de ...
— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot
... not power To hold the humour "half an hour"— And critics, vers'd in Cupid's laws, Pretended they had found a clause, In an old volume on the shelf;— Which said, if arrows chanc'd to fly, When no bright nymph was passing by, And lighted on a vacant breast; The swain, Narcissus-like possest, ...
— Vignettes in Verse • Matilda Betham
... kisses and our last embrace; Strange to relate, from young Iulus' head A lambent flame arose, which gently spread Around his brows, and on his temples fed. Amaz'd, with running water we prepare To quench the sacred fire, and slake his hair; But old Anchises, vers'd in omens, rear'd His hands to heav'n, and this request preferr'd: 'If any vows, almighty Jove, can bend Thy will; if piety can pray'rs commend, Confirm the glad presage which thou art pleas'd to send.' Scarce had ...
— The Aeneid • Virgil
... scholarship. In his search for beautiful form, he stood upon the ancient ways, patient and serene, moving steadily to his appointed end. 'Ainsi procède le génie grec, moins soucieux du nouveau que du mieux, il reporte vers l'épuration des formes l'activité que d'autres dépensent en innovations souvent stériles, jusqu'à ce qu'enfin il atteigne l'exquise mesure dans les efforts, et dans les expressions l'absolue justesse.'[143] ...
— The Legacy of Greece • Various
... treuer sie die ussere Form des Originals in allen Einzelheiten wiedergebe. Aber dieweil diese so mhsam an der Schale knacken, entschlpft ihnen nicht selten der Kern. Mein Bestreben war demnach keineswegs, z.B. jeden Vers ngstlich dem Originale nachzubilden, so dass die genaueste bereinstimmung zwischen der Silbenzahl und den Hebungen oder gar dem Klange der Verse Statt fnde. Das wre ohnehin, ohne der deutschen Sprache die schreiendste Gewalt anzuthun, unmglich gewesen. Ich habe vielmehr darnach mit ...
— The Translations of Beowulf - A Critical Biography • Chauncey Brewster Tinker
... a vecu en Odeur de Saintete dans sa Religion, vers la Fin du premier et le Commencement du second Siecle," no part of which, except the "Philosophe," can ...
— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam
... President Lowell of Harvard, is not only a distinguished poetess, being by many considered the head of the Vers Libre school in this country, but she is also the guardian of a most handsome and ...
— Best Short Stories • Various
... whole time, from point to point, feeling shrouds and back-stays, and preventers, in order to ascertain the degree of strain on each, or examining how the purchases stood. As for the crew, they cheered at their toil, incessantly, passing from capstan bars to the handspikes, and vice vers. They, too, felt that their task was increasing in resistance as it advanced, and now found it more difficult to gain an inch, than it had been at first to gain a foot. They seemed, indeed, to be heaving their own vessel out, instead of heaving the other craft up, and it was not ...
— Jack Tier or The Florida Reef • James Fenimore Cooper
... Salle continua son chemin par une riviere qui va de l'est a l'ouest; et passe a Onontaque (Onondaga), puis a six ou sept lieues au-dessous du Lac Erie; et estant parvenu jusqu'au 280me ou 83me degre de longitude, et jusqu'au 4lme degre de latitude, trouva un sault qui tombe vers l'ouest dans un pays has, marescageux, tout couvert de vielles souches, don't il y en a quelquesunes qui sont encore sur pied. Il fut done contraint de prendre terre, et suivant une hauteur qui le pouvoit mener loin, il trouva quelques sauvages qui luy dirent que fort loin de la le mesme ...
— France and England in North America, a Series of Historical Narratives, Part Third • Francis Parkman
... que les merveilles Qui naissent de tes longues veilles Vivront autant que l'univers; Mais que te sert il que ta gloire Eclipse au Temple de Memoire Quand tu seras mange des vers? Quitte cette inutile peine, Buvons plutot a longue haleine De ce doux jus delicieux, Qui pour l'excellence precede Le bruvage que Ganimede Verse dans la coupe ...
— Ebrietatis Encomium - or, the Praise of Drunkenness • Boniface Oinophilus
... He was not a mere fop, but conspicuous for the quiet neatness of his dress—for "a certain exquisite propriety," as Byron described it to Leigh Hunt—and, at a time when the opposite was common, for the scrupulous cleanliness of his person and his linen. An excellent dancer, clever at 'vers de societe', an agreeable singer, a talented artist, a judge of china, buhl, and other objects of 'virtu', a collector of snuff-boxes, a connoisseur in canes, he had gifts which might have raised him above the Bond Street 'flaneur', or the idler at Watier's Club. Well-read in a desultory ...
— The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, Volume 2. • Lord Byron
... de Louis XV.—Ce tableau, qui a ete execute vers 1635, ne fut paye a van Dyck que 100 livres sterling. En 1754, il faisait partie, suivant Descamps, du cabinet du marquis de Lassay. On trouve cette note dans les memoires ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 201, September 3, 1853 • Various
... tulistis clavem scientiae, ipsi non introistis: et eos, qui introibant, prohibuistis.—Lucae, cap. xi. vers. 52. ...
— Letters of George Borrow - to the British and Foreign Bible Society • George Borrow |
