Class-book of French CompositionLib. Hachette et cie., 1888 |
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¹¹ 11 See Ex 9 See Ex 9 Translate adverb Alexandre Dumas aller asked avait avant avoir bien Bruges chose Cloth cœur compound tenses conj coup dative deux donner Douglas Jerrold droit Duke Dumas enemy English entrer être expression father fois followed French French language gentleman homme honour imperfect indicative in¹ infinitive intrans jusqu'à king l'autre lady lord lordship masc means mettre mieux mood neuter never Note 11 Note 9 noun one's Paris parler partitive article past participle personal pronoun placed possessive adjective preceded prendre prep preposition prince pron qu'il qu'on Queen referring Reflexive verbs rendered replied requires the subjunctive rien Rule speaking subjunctive mood subordinate sentence subs temps to¹ tout trans Turn verb faire verb vouloir words XVII XVIII XXIV XXVI XXVII XXXIII XXXIX
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Seite 117 - Consider, that external things are naturally variable, but truth and reason are always the same." " What comfort, said the mourner, can truth and reason afford me ? of what effect are they now, but to tell me, that my daughter will not be restored...
Seite 82 - These are but a few of the features of park scenery; but what most delights me, is the creative talent with which the English decorate the unostentatious abodes of middle life. The rudest habitation, the most unpromising and scanty portion of land, in the hands of an Englishman of taste, becomes a little paradise.
Seite 116 - you are come at a time when all human friendship is useless: what I suffer cannot be remedied; what I have lost cannot be supplied. My daughter, my only daughter, from whose tenderness I expected all the comforts of my age, died last night of a fever. My views, my purposes, my hopes are at an end; I am now a lonely being disunited from society.
Seite 68 - Impatient of contradiction ; because she had been accustomed from her infancy to be treated as a Queen. No stranger, on some occasions, to dissimulation ; which, in that perfidious court where she received her education, was reckoned among the necessary arts of government.
Seite 82 - Nothing can be more imposing than the magnificence of English park scenery. Vast lawns that extend like sheets of vivid green, with here and there clumps of gigantic trees, heaping up rich piles of foliage : the solemn pomp of groves and woodland glades, with the deer, trooping in silent herds across them...
Seite 67 - Nothing could exceed the neatness of my little enclosures, the elms and hedgerows appearing with inexpressible beauty. My house consisted of but one story, and was covered with thatch, which gave it an air of great snugness...
Seite 124 - Mr. Hallam is, on the whole, far better qualified than any other writer of our time for the office which he has undertaken. He has great industry and great acuteness. His knowledge is extensive, various, and profound. His mind is equally distinguished by the amplitude of its grasp, and by the delicacy of its tact.
Seite 83 - The great charm, however, of English scenery, is the moral feeling that seems to pervade it. It is associated in the mind with ideas of order, of quiet, of sober well-established principles, of hoary usage and reverend custom.
Seite 140 - Since then it is certain that our own hearts deceive us in the love of the world, and that we cannot command ourselves enough to resign it, though we every day wish ourselves disengaged from its allurements, let us not stand upon a formal taking of leave, but wean ourselves from them while we are in the midst of them. It is certainly the general intention of the greater part of mankind to accomplish this work, and live according to their own approbation, as soon as they possibly can.
Seite 88 - How beautiful is death when earned by virtue ! Who would not be that youth ? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country...