The French handbookLongmans, Green, & Company, 1885 - 215 pages |
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action adjective adverb agrees aller amis autres avait avant avoir beau bien C'est C'était cent-suisse cher chose cœur complement Compound nouns couleurs courir d'une definite article deux devant direct object droit elle enfants English été êtes être express faire fait faut feminine femme Fontaine France gender and number gens grand haut heures homme honnête impersonal verb infinitive interrogative J'ai jamais jeune jolie jouer jour jusqu'à l'air l'eau l'on l'un et l'autre lettres livre maison masculine matin méchants mère mieux Molière mort n'en n'est noir past participle persons petit peuple pluperfect plural possessive adjective preceded preposition present participle pronoun qu'elle qu'il qu'on qu'un quoi reflexive verbs remains invariable rien Rousseau rule s'en s'il sentence seul singular soir soldats soleil sommes sous subjunctive subjunctive mood take the mark temps tense tête tout translated in French trois Venir verb voir vrai words
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Page 174 - ... like thy soul, was not to know freedom. Yet toil on, toil on ; thou art in thy duty, be out of it who may : thou toilest for the altogether indispensable, for daily bread. " A second man I honour, and still more highly : him who is seen toiling for the spiritually indispensable : not daily bread, but the bread of life.
Page 155 - Justice with the placid courage which has half redeemed his fame. Neither military nor civil pomp was wanting. The avenues were lined with grenadiers. The streets were kept clear by cavalry. The peers, robed in gold and ermine, were marshalled by the heralds under Garter King-at-Arms.
Page 193 - Perhaps there is no more impressive scene on earth than the solitary extent of the Campagna of Rome under evening light. Let the reader imagine himself for a moment withdrawn from the sounds and motion of the living world, and sent forth alone into this wild and wasted plain. The earth yields and crumbles beneath his foot, tread he never so lightly, for its substance is white, hollow, and carious, like the dusty wreck of the bones of men. The long knotted grass waves and tosses feebly in the...
Page 174 - Two men I honour, and no third. First, the toilworn Craftsman that with earth-made Implement laboriously conquers the Earth, and makes her man's. Venerable to me is the hard Hand ; crooked, coarse ; wherein notwithstanding lies a cunning virtue, indefeasibly royal, as of the Sceptre of this Planet. Venerable too is the rugged face, all weathertanned, besoiled, with its rude intelligence ; for it is the face of a Man living manlike.
Page 124 - Pizarro saw that the hour had come. He waved a white scarf in the air, the appointed signal. The fatal gun was fired from the fortress. Then springing into the square, the Spanish captain and his followers shouted the old war-cry of
Page 145 - Pendant les guerres de l'Empire, tandis que les maris et les frères étaient en Allemagne, les mères inquiètes avaient mis au monde une génération ardente, pâle, nerveuse. Conçus entre deux batailles, élevés dans les collèges au roulement des tambours, des milliers d'enfants se regardaient entre eux d'un œil sombre, en essayant leurs muscles chétifs.
Page 135 - HAVE often wished, that as in our Constitution there are several Persons whose Business it is to watch over our Laws, our Liberties and Commerce, certain Men might be set apart, as Super-intendants of our Language, to hinder any Words of a Foreign Coin from passing among us; and in particular to prohibit any French Phrases from becoming Current in this Kingdom, when those of our own stamp are altogether as valuable.
Page 193 - ... four-square, remnants of mighty edifices, not one left upon another, lie upon them to keep them down. A dull purple poisonous haze stretches level along the desert, veiling its spectral wrecks of massy ruins, on whose rents the red light rests, like dying fire on defiled altars. The blue ridge of the Alban Mount lifts itself against a solemn space of green, clear, quiet sky. Watch-towers of dark clouds stand steadfastly along the promontories of the Apennines. From the plain to the mountains,...
Page 121 - In the evening we reached a village where I had determined to pass the night. As we drove into the great gateway of the inn, I saw on one side the light of a rousing kitchen fire beaming through a window. I entered, and admired, for the hundredth time, that picture of convenience, neatness, and broad honest enjoyment, the kitchen of an English inn.
Page 206 - ... his hat must be broad or narrow. In literature she gave law to the world. The fame of her great writers filled Europe.