Table Talk: Or, Selections from the Ana. Containing Extracts from the Different Collections of Ana, French, English, Italian, and German. With Bibliographical Notices |
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... Sire , " said Bautru , " as he has taken so little from your books , it is probable he may take as little from your finances . " XXI . M. DE BAUTRU . Bautru disliked Angely , who was very fond of amusing himself at his expense . One day ...
... Sire , " said Bautru , " as he has taken so little from your books , it is probable he may take as little from your finances . " XXI . M. DE BAUTRU . Bautru disliked Angely , who was very fond of amusing himself at his expense . One day ...
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... Sire , " replied the ambassador , " at this rate your Majesty might also contrive to hear vespers in Sicily . " LIV . BOUTS RIMÉS . Perhaps the most difficult set of rhymes ever given for a Sonnet in Bouts Rimés , is the follow- ing ...
... Sire , " replied the ambassador , " at this rate your Majesty might also contrive to hear vespers in Sicily . " LIV . BOUTS RIMÉS . Perhaps the most difficult set of rhymes ever given for a Sonnet in Bouts Rimés , is the follow- ing ...
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... Sire , I saw him die like a good Hugue- not : what I think is most to be regretted is , that he should have died in a religion which is now as unfashionable as a peaked hat . ” LXVII . A MAN OF WORTH . The Abbé de la Riviere was ...
... Sire , I saw him die like a good Hugue- not : what I think is most to be regretted is , that he should have died in a religion which is now as unfashionable as a peaked hat . ” LXVII . A MAN OF WORTH . The Abbé de la Riviere was ...
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... Sire , " replied Waller , " we poets always succeed better in fiction than in truth . " LXXVII . M. DE SELLERY . The King having sent to ask the Chancellor de Sellery , whether he was willing to submit to a trial , the Chancellor ...
... Sire , " replied Waller , " we poets always succeed better in fiction than in truth . " LXXVII . M. DE SELLERY . The King having sent to ask the Chancellor de Sellery , whether he was willing to submit to a trial , the Chancellor ...
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... Sire , " replied the Monk , your Majesty can make it the blow of an Abbé when you please . " Some days afterwards the Abbacy of Bourmayen became vacant , and the King presented the situation to him . << CCXXI . BENOISE AND HENRY III ...
... Sire , " replied the Monk , your Majesty can make it the blow of an Abbé when you please . " Some days afterwards the Abbacy of Bourmayen became vacant , and the King presented the situation to him . << CCXXI . BENOISE AND HENRY III ...
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