Prose and PoetryDent, 1961 - 364 pages |
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Page 205
... French class of the Abbé d'Aulnoi , a French émigré who had written a number of gram- mars , and wore a red wig , and jumped about very nervously when he recited his Art poétique , and his Histoire allemande . He was the only one in the ...
... French class of the Abbé d'Aulnoi , a French émigré who had written a number of gram- mars , and wore a red wig , and jumped about very nervously when he recited his Art poétique , and his Histoire allemande . He was the only one in the ...
Page 326
... French , there is so much delicious flattery , which costs so little , and is yet so gratifying . My poor sensitive soul , which had shrunk with shyness from the rudeness of the fatherland , again expanded under the genial influence of ...
... French , there is so much delicious flattery , which costs so little , and is yet so gratifying . My poor sensitive soul , which had shrunk with shyness from the rudeness of the fatherland , again expanded under the genial influence of ...
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... French ? The more ignorant a nation is , the more readily , the more recklessly it hurls itself headlong into the stream of action ; but the more erudite , cultivated , and reflecting , the longer does it sound the flood , which it then ...
... French ? The more ignorant a nation is , the more readily , the more recklessly it hurls itself headlong into the stream of action ; but the more erudite , cultivated , and reflecting , the longer does it sound the flood , which it then ...
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BOOK OF SONGS | 3 |
Where? Ruth Duffin | 9 |
A Mountain Idyll John Todhunter | 42 |
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