The Translator, English Into French: Selections from the Best English Prose Writers, with Principles of Translation, Idiomatic Phrases, and NotesS.R. Urbino, 1870 - 219 Seiten |
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ACRES adjective adverb Art of Pleasing assez autre avait avoir bien Bôcher c'est c'était Cæsar cœur construction coup Cowper d'une dative DERVIS deux DICTATION EXERCISES dire elle ellipsis enfant English Notes Eppie été être expression faire fait father faut French Grammar French language full stop gens give grand Hare and Tortoise HAST Hearers and Doers heure homme j'ai jamais jour jusqu'à kind lady language leave Les bons marchés means mettre Muly Moluc n'en n'est never noun Otto's French Grammar parler Pecksniff person petit pleasure poor Richard says prendre preposition preterite Proverb qu'elle qu'il qu'on RABELAIS RABELAIS A TRAITOR relative pronoun rien Roger de Coverley S. R. URBINO School for Scandal sense sentence simply Sir Lucius Sir Roger subjunctive temps thing tout Translate TURKISH TALE Turn verb Voilà voir vrai Watches word
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Seite 41 - Who is here so base that would be a bondman? If any, speak; for 50 him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile that will not love his country? If any, speak; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.
Seite 93 - I might boast myself le vainqueur du vainqueur de la terre; that I might obtain that regard for which I saw the world contending. But I found my attendance so little encouraged, that neither pride nor modesty would suffer me to continue it.
Seite 84 - Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy, as Poor Richard says; and he that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. While laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him...
Seite 84 - Life is made of, as Poor Richard says. How much more than is necessary do we spend in sleep, forgetting that the sleeping Fox catches no Poultry, and that There will be sleeping enough in the Grave, as Poor Richard says.
Seite 80 - ... that smoothed his pillow, and administered to his helplessness ? Oh ! there is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness, nor daunted by danger, nor weakened by worthlessness, nor stifled by ingratitude. She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience ; she will surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment; she will glory in his fame, and exult in his prosperity : — and, if...
Seite 93 - Dictionary is recommended to the public were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When upon some slight encouragement...
Seite 48 - Why, you may think there's no being shot at without a little risk, and if an unlucky bullet should carry a quietus with it— I say it will be no time then to be bothering you about family matters.
Seite 41 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Seite 133 - When they become unfit for these purposes, and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an incumbrance, and answer none of the intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we may get rid of them. Death is that way.
Seite 109 - We shall be forced ultimately to retract; let us retract while we can, not when we must. I say we must necessarily undo these violent, oppressive acts. They must be repealed. You will repeal them. I pledge myself for it that you will in the end repeal them. I stake my reputation on it. I will consent to be taken for an idiot if they are not finally repealed.