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...Alexandrian, a man he met while studying in Athens, who spoke many desert languages. “I’d like to see him again. I’ve learned something through my o... ... s a boy I respected Greek—such a rich vocabulary, I found; I thought the language overly concise. Hebrew is the city man’s tongue, best suited to a... ...cious and agreeable for public speaking. Haran believed in learning three languages: he was the most intelligent rabbi I have met. To him I owe my b... ...valuate and assess: last night, on the part of others, he apologized: the Gascon archers were much on his mind... “I have thought of them many, many... ...were much on his mind... “I have thought of them many, many times...those Gascon fools...nothing else to do...made a target of your cavello...our ar... ... know that cannons had priority at that time.” They knew, too, about the Gascon bowmen. I understand they had watched the archers, as they used my ... ...esco talk French I am listening to a clever Frenchman. He could speak the language fairly well before coming—he has perfected his pronunciation, his... ...I...was it really VITELLI? I thought I saw 1502 on the wall. Latin names. Gascon. 1601. 1502 again. Cesare Borgia, that Papal bastard had had Vitell... ...houted “Christ the Juggler;” they called Him “El Puto”...“the glassy-eyed Gascon.” Riffraff threw mud and garbage. I had to cover the painting...bu...

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...heir voices in indignation against fresh taxes. The king returned amidst the silence of a vast multitude to the Palais Royal. All minds were uneasy, m... ...as you please, my lord. I do not understand Italian.” “Yes, but you understand French,” and Mazarin laid his hand upon Guitant’s shoulder. “My good, m... ...mmediately; of course he could not in- quire from D’Artagnan himself who he was and what had been his career; he remarked, however, in the course of c... ... returned Mazarin, smiling, “if you have taken any particular notice of our lieutenant of musketeers?” “Monsieur d’Artagnan? I have had no occasion to... ...o not know. I did not even know that you were the person I was sent to fetch.” “Impossible—you—a favorite of the minister!” “A favorite! no, indeed!” ... ...“My lord, there has stood for six years at your very door a man such as I describe, and during those six years he has been unappreciated and unemploye... ...eak of him in order that I may introduce the name of another man. Do you know Monsieur d’Artagnan?” he added, looking steadfastly at the queen. Anne o... ...I fought for years. Listen, sir. Goeden morgen, mynheer, eth teen begeeray le weeten the ge sond heets omstand.” “Which means?” “Good-day, sir! I am a... ...tagnan himself could hardly recognize him. Madeleine introduced him in presence of all the servants. Planchet addressed the officer with a fine Flemis...

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... the maxillary muscles enormously developed, an infallible sign by which a Gascon may always be detected, even without his cap—and our young man wore ... ...h had accompanied the present were above all price. “My son,” said the old Gascon gentleman, in that pure Bearn patois of which Henry IV could never r... ... young. You ought to be brave for two reasons: the first is that you are a Gascon, and the second is that you are my son. Never fear quarrels, but see... ...o copy some of the court airs he had 10 The Three Musketeers picked up in Gascony among young traveling nobles, he advanced with one hand on the hilt... ...ith his usual impassiveness, muttering, nevertheless, “A plague upon these Gascons! Replace him on his orange horse, and let him begone!” “Not before ... ...d him from the same aper- ture, the conversation of two of three ladies in language at once respectful and refined, and the word “Majesty” several tim... ...ed D’Artagnan, who had never been able to cram the first rudiments of that language into his head, and who had by his ignorance driven his master to d... ...He was, however, forced to hold his tongue from not comprehending half the language they employed. 264 The Three Musketeers “But listen to me, then,”... ...oubrette perceiving his presence. The conversation took place in English—a language which D’Artagnan could not understand; but by the accent the young...

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...world has gone after the French now! Sir Reginald has brought home as many Gascon thieves as kindly Englishmen!” Eustace listened for a moment to his ... ...ur brother tells me I am not behind my countrymen in what you English call gasconades.” “You have seen many sieges and passages of arms?” asked Eustac... ..., and especially on that of his master, who must needs bring home a gibing Gascon, when honest English Squires were not scarce. Very different was the... ...m de guerre of Gaston le Maure, yet d’Aubricour was a gallant gentleman of Gascony. But still 15 Yo n g e Leonard was not satisfied. “Had ever man bo... ...better could be found to train a poor Somersetshire clown for the Prince’s Gascon court?” “Why, for that matter,” interrupted Sir Reginald, whose pati... ...lways turned a deaf ear to Gaston’s attempts to instruct him in the latter language. However, a grunt was his only reply. “Or,” pursued the Squire, “h... ...ed with, Master d’Aubricour, because I cannot bring my mouth to speak your language in your own fashion. It is Lord Harry that chiefly falls under his...

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...ays the elder, “we brought back but our bare lives. We were wrecked on the Gascons’ Graveyard, where our sole company for three months was the bleache... ...ll for heretics—eight hundred or so. The next year Dominique de Gorgues, a Gascon, broke in upon De Avila’s men, and very justly hung ‘em all for murd... ...king some one else’s hand in the Grand Chain. ‘Can a ship go down into the Gascons’ Graveyard and wait there?’ she asked into the air, and passed on r... ... woman. But—?’ ‘But I thought Gloriana meant the cousins to go back to the Gascons’ Graveyard, wherever that was.’ ‘’T was Virginia after-wards. Her p... ... she asked no more of ‘em at first than to wait a while off that coast—the Gascons’ Graveyard— to hover a little if their ships chanced to pass that w... ...?’ he said. ‘I’ll give it you in Low Ger- man.’ And he went off in another language, changing his voice and manner so completely that they hardly knew...

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... that Montaigne should expect for his work a certain share of celebrity in Gascony, and even, as time went on, throughout France; but it is scarcely p... ...letters and a moralist; how the Essays would be read, in all the principal languages of Europe, by millions of intel- ligent human beings, who never h... ...e fame. A man of genius belongs to no period and no country. He speaks the language of nature, which is al- ways everywhere the same. The text of thes... ...h Montaigne’s translators seems to have been a propensity for reducing his language and phrase- ology to the language and phraseology of the age and c... ... his father had placed near him, and who never addressed him except in the language of Virgil and Cicero. The study of Greek took precedence. At six y... ...sible that some fas- tidious persons will detect in the book some trace of Gascon parentage; but it will be so much the more to their discredit, that ... ...s not always the case: the more so that, though ’tis more natural with the Gascons to act than talk, yet sometimes they employ the tongue more than th... ...I think myself obliged to fortune that, as our historians report, it was a Gascon gentleman, a countryman of mine, who first opposed Charlemagne, when... ...test effect of art whatever. In relation to what I am now speaking of, the Gascon proverb, derived from a cornpipe, is very quaint and subtle: 188 Es...

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..., turning round with a vehe- mence strangely contrasting with her previous language, ‘wherefore should we not go with Glenuskie to be with Meg at Bour... ...oked from one to the other without a word; and the Bishop, in more courtly language, explained that amid all these contending parties he could not but... ... intended, and she pouted a little, while the Cardinal asked, changing his language, ‘Ces donzelles, ont elles appris le Francais?’ Jean, who had trie... ...temptations, coarsenesses and cruelties, and the strange land with its new language. The alternative seemed to her from Maudelin in her worldly days t... ... two of the Cardinal’s chaplains, in a crooked and crabbed calligraphy and language much more resembling Anglo-Saxon than modern English, a letter to ... ...at the Seigneur Dauphin is talking to the English Lord on some question of Gascon bound- aries, we should have him speiring for you. I saw the eye of ... ...y inclined. Only there were certain murmurs by the rugged Scots and fierce Gascons among the guests. George observed to David Drummond that he felt as...

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...with the world, 43 Yo n g e and ready justice, neither Highland men minor Gascons will have leisure or taste for robbery.’ ‘Perhaps Gascons and Scots... ... tell him! I had nearly given him a taste of my sword as it was, only some Gascon rogue caught my arm, and he was off ere I could get free. So I jumpe... ...n, and they knew plenty of young Englishmen, and many more Burgundians and Gascons, who had plunged far deeper into mischief, and thought it no disgra... ... set forth for Italy, there to pursue those deeper studies in theology and language for which Padua and Bologna were famous. It was many months since ... ...rmed one general system—all were like islands of one country, whose common language was queer Latin, and whose terms, manners, and customs were alike ...

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...in this low example the image of a greater is to be seen. In my country of Gascony, they look upon it as a drollery to see me in print; the further of... ...cta effundunt animi secreta; quid ultra? Concumbunt docte;” [“In this language do they express their fears, their anger, their joys, their cares;... ...om their infancy to the traffic of love; their grace, dressing, knowledge, language, and whole in- struction tend that way: their governesses imprint ... ...orthy people stood in need of no subtlety to disguise their meaning; their language is downright, and full of natural and continued vigour; they are a... ...makes the man eloquent.”—Quintilian, x. 7.] 101 Montaigne Our people call language, judgment, and fine words, full conceptions. This painting is not ... ...t I say to myself, “Thou art too thick of figures: this is a word of rough Gascon: that is a dangerous phrase (I do not reject any of those that are u... ...there is another couple in France worthy to supply the places of these two Gascons in sincerity and wisdom in the council of our kings. They were both... ... contrary, travel very much sated with our own fashions; I do not look for Gascons in Sicily; I have left enough of them at home; I rather seek for Gr... ... that is obscure and private, enjoys all natural dispensation; soldier and Gascon are also qualities a little subject to indiscretion; where- fore I s...

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...d which will be either the worst or the best that has been composed in our language, I mean of those intended for entertainment; at which I repent of ... ...and he talked to them about himself very naturally and in very well-chosen language. In the course of their conversation they fell to discussing what ... ...ion wrote to the Archbishop, entreating him earnestly, and in very correct language, to have him released from the misery in which he was living; for ... ..., “according to the maxim quando caput dolet, &c.” “I don’t understand any language but my own,” said Sancho. “I mean to say,” said Don Quixote, “that... ...eing printed at Antwerp, and I am persuaded there will not be a country or language in which there will not be a translation of it.” “One of the thing... ...ent on to say, “This figure that you see here on horseback, covered with a Gascon cloak, is Don Gaiferos himself, whom his wife, now avenged of the in... ... Dona Rodriguez for a mother-in-law, they arranged to substitute for him a Gascon lacquey, named Tosilos, first of all carefully instructing him in al... ...ull of peril, as well to the soul as to the body; but as most of them were Gascons, rough lawless fellows, his speech did not make much impression on ... ...her than a notorious robber. One of the squires observed in his mixture of Gascon and Catalan, “This captain of ours would make a better friar than hi...

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...uffice,” replied Christophe, without reflecting that the conspirator was a Gascon. “We live in times when each man, prince or burgher, must do his dut... ...- ment of her arrival intended to play a leading part! Then, in her native language, the language of Dante, these terrible words came slowly from her ... ...in words those gentlemen will put into our French.” “Ah!” said Mary, “your language is really in very good taste, and Rabelais exhibits it finely.” “Y... ... Calvin, as we all know, had ordained that prayers to God should be in the language of each country, as much from a principle of common sense as in op... ...France. Geneva, midway between France and Italy, and speak- ing the French language, was admirably situated for ready com- munication with Germany, Fr... ...he way of doctrine; let no one add one iota. Why does Cameron, that little Gascon pastor, presume to write of it?” Calvin, de Beze, and Chaudieu were ... ...oking at Le Balafre, “perhaps he will now like to know the minister.” This gasconade made the whole court laugh, even Catherine. “Faith!” replied the ... ...had sent him, mentally, to the devil in 201 Balzac Orleans, muttering, “A Gascon would have understood me better,” when Christophe called out a touch... ...c, Pibrac, crack!” cried Babette. “There’s no confi- dence to be placed in Gascons; they think only of them- selves.” Old Lecamus looked at his son, s...

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...effort to see things as Cervantes saw them; there is no anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into the English of Shakespeare. ... ...oughly satisfactory translation of “Don Quixote” into English or any other language. It is not that the Spanish idioms are so utterly 4 Don Quixote u... ... translations of “Don Quixote” is instructive. Shelton’s, the first in any language, was made, appar- ently, about 1608, but not published till 1612. ... ...n Quixote” “made English,” he says, “according to the humour of our modern language.” His “Quixote” is not so much a translation as a travesty, and a ... ...es. For this reason, I think, any temptation to use antiquated or obsolete language should be resisted. It is after all an affectation, and one for wh... ...ent on to say, “This figure that you see here on horseback, covered with a Gascon cloak, is Don Gaiferos himself, whom his wife, now avenged of the in... ... Dona Rodriguez for a mother-in-law, they arranged to substitute for him a Gascon lacquey, named Tosilos, first of all carefully instructing him in al... ...ull of peril, as well to the soul as to the body; but as most of them were Gascons, rough lawless fellows, his speech did not make much impression on ... ...her than a notorious robber. One of the squires observed in his mixture of Gascon and Catalan, “This captain of ours would make a better friar than hi...

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...ast as her friend wrote, here in- terrupted by clapping her hands. “Capital!” cried she; “there is frankness — there is heart — there is style! Show t... ..., as monsieur is a foreigner, which I perceive by his accent —” In fact, the unknown spoke with that impetuosity which is the principal character of E... ... him with his eyes till he had disappeared in the corridor. Then as soon as he had disappeared, he shook his head 71 Dumas after a fashion peculiarly... ...e! So I change my formula, sire; and when any one says to me ‘Later,’ I reply ‘Now.’ It is rest that I solicit, sire. That may be easily granted me. T... ...omte left home two hours ago.” D’Artagnan did not trouble himself about such trifles. “V ery good!” said he. “You always speak the best French in the ... ...illiant, all that was embalming in my youth; then it throws that sweet burthen on its shoulders and carries it away with the rest into the fathomless ... ...what I think, and that is exactly why I say that, in the first pitched battle you fight with your forty men, I am very much afraid —” “Therefore I sha... ...n they turned their eyes towards their leader, who had long been acquainted with the art of speaking to men of that class, and who impro- vised the fo... ... taken a barbel that weighs at least thirty pounds, and more than fifty mullets; I have also some little whitings that will fry beautifully.” “Y ou ap...

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...tter pamphlets also, written in a sickly enthusiastic style and in several languages, giving statistics of slaughter and blood- shed enough to make a ... ...nced it with a disagreeable forced precision as though he meant to guy the language. The man in the launch answered him quickly in a pleasant voice. H... ...nmistakable sin- cerity, “What on earth for?” The innocence of the fi- ery Gascon soul was depicted in the manner in which he seized his head in both ... ...e you into small pieces. Good-morning!” And turning his back on the little Gascon, who, always sober in his potations, was as though born intoxicated ... ...t fight with you. I won’t be made ridiculous.” “Ah, you won’t?” hissed the Gascon. “I suppose you prefer to be made infamous. Do you hear what I say? ... ...s intellectual efforts degenerated into mere mental repetitions of profane language. “Mille tonnerres! … Sacré nom de nom …” he thought. Lieut. D’Hube... ...iments appeared to him unduly violent, lacking fineness and measure, their language needlessly exaggerated. He joined calmly the General on the road, ... ...he—this Feraud?” “Lieutenant of hussars, too — I mean, he’s a gen- eral. A Gascon. Son of a blacksmith, I believe.” “There! I thought so. That Bonapar... ... to say, I never looked. At any rate, he was a good European—he spoke four languages to my certain knowledge—and a man of fortune. Not of great fortun...

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... the hostile blood of the Normans and Anglo-Saxons, or to unite, by common language and mutual interests, two hos- tile races, one of which still felt... ...ere the pomp and state of a court was emulated, Norman-French was the only language employed; in courts of law, the pleadings and judgments were deliv... ... from this necessity arose by degrees the structure of our present English language, in which the speech of the victors and the vanquished have been s... ...ich has since been so richly improved by im- portations from the classical languages, and from those spo- ken by the southern nations of Europe. This ... ...respect for his supposed learning; and the grav- ity of his deportment and language, with the high tone which he exerted in setting forth the authorit... ... dear-bought honours, purchased by toil and blood, I found her wedded to a Gascon squire, whose name was never heard beyond the limits of his own palt... ...r the storing of your cellars in the last season with the due allowance of Gascon wine,” interrupted the Jew; “but that—that is small matters.” “Hear ...

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...ails of manners and customs, a word- painter like Tacitus; the author of a language of his own, lacking in accuracy, system, and art, yet an admirable... ...ed to any of his contemporaries. He has an indi- viduality, a style, and a language solely his own …. Lan- guage he treated like an abject slave. When... ...l Richelieu. During this retirement the King frequently wrote to him, in a language they had composed so as to speak before people without being under... ...disciples, and in a short time she formed a little flock, whose maxims and language appeared very strange to all the rest of the house, and, above all... ...pointed lady of the palace. Her fa- ther, named Guilleragues, a gluttonous Gascon, had been one of the intimate friends of Madame Scarron, who, as Mad... ...shop of Plosko gave him a grand repast, near the Abbey of Oliva. Marege, a Gascon gentle- man of the Prince’s suite, was present, but had been ill. Th... ...ed nobody. He came very young to the Court without any fortune, a cadet of Gascony, under the name of the Marquis de Puyguilhem. The Marechal de Gramm... ...and to try and reawaken the infinite liking he had conceived for the young Gascon. He succeeded so well in touching the King, by show- ing him that th... ...in of Lauzun completely turned, took for fairy tales all the sto- ries the Gascon told him of what had happened in the world, from the imprisonment of...

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... the Princess. Whether she recognized him as her preserver, or whether his language had a familiar tone, she seemed exclu- sively attracted by him; an... ... Father Adam de Marisco’s writing lessons. He meditated what should be the language of his letter, which was not likely to be secure from the eyes of ... ...r atten- tion; some by conversations with one another; one richly- dressed Gascon squire, of the train of Edward’s ally, the Count de Bearn, by singin... ...attempted an answer, nay, even before the words were out of his mouth, the Gascon was shouting in French that this was no fair play, he had stolen a m... ... ease. One by one speak your business, and begone. You first, Sir,” to the Gascon, she said in French. “Ah! fair Lady, what business could be mine, sa...

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...dy has been laid in its coffin,” said the doctor, “and the weeping woman’s language will grow more vivid and impassioned all the while. But a woman on... ...s one of them still left on his feet to keep Europe in mind of those days, Gascon though he may be, and a traitor to France that he might keep his cro... ...rman, Italian, and Span- ish in succession; and, that he might speak these languages correctly, tutors belonging to each of these various nationali- t... ... glances and in answering smiles, there lies an eloquence and a variety of language far beyond the possibilities of the most magnificent of spoken phr... ...ous messages of love in hours of ecstasy like these, and this was the only language permitted me by the quiet maidenly reserve of the young girl befor... ... closer is the bond it forms, the sweet promise of love, a fragment of the language spoken in a fairer world than this. Sure, therefore, of being belo...

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...gh T elemaque, Racine, and Le Grand Cyrus were the whole li- brary in that language; and there was not another within thirty miles. On two days in the... ...that you would be the only person who could be of use—you who know foreign languages and all their ways. If you could go abroad, and arrange it for me... ...farther, such as that lusus naturae, Miss Elizabeth Carter, who knew seven languages, or the Bishop of Oxford’s niece, Catherine T albot, who even pai... ...ing my word doubted, sir,” and the little lady drew herself up like a true Gascon baron- ess, as she was. “Madam, forgive me, I am in terrible perplex...

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...d, could I, the first time, the first moment I beheld her, adopt caressing language, and a familiar tone, as readily as after ten years’ intimacy had ... ...from difficulties by saying he was not suf- ficiently versed in the French language. The next day, lest my indiscreet objections should injure the min... ...It was time to seek a lodging: as I already knew enough of the Piedmontese language to make myself understood, this was a work of no great difficulty;... ...fue pas’. As the Piedmontese are not in general very perfect in the French language, they found fault with the orthography, saying, that in the word f... ... when read, can hardly be understood. It is not only painful to me to give language to my ideas but even to receive them. I have studied mankind, and ... ...hey offered him his part to pe- ruse, but he did not even look at it. This Gasconade sur- prised Le Maitre—”You’ll see,” said he, whispering to me, “t... ...Beside M. de Bonnefond, the company was composed of several Irish priests, Gascons and others of much the same description. Our hostess herself had no...

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...asy. Mr. Adderley thought he knew French very well, through books, but the language he spoke was not available, and he soon fell into a state of bewil... ...t is your comedy, Madame; I meddle not.’ The Austrian priest had no common language with Berenger but Latin. He asked a few questions, and on hear- in... ...r him in his adopted tongue, then not vulgarized, but the tenderest in the language, ‘Sweet heart.’ That was all, but to him they conveyed constancy t... ... itself at first was gone, and even when he improved enough to establish a language of signs with eye, lip, or left hand, Cecily became convinced that... ...licking-looking men, their dress profusely adorned with ribbons, and their language full of strange oaths. They were well known at La Sablerie as sail... ...e left them with the wounded man.’ ‘Then I will send with you half a dozen Gascons, who have been long enough at Paris with me to have no scruples.’ B...

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...u :— “If anybody asks who said this, who put this history into the Romance language, I say and I will say to him that I am Wace of the isle of Jersey,... ...hts moved, and his mind dwelt on her national epic heroes. Not only in his language, which belongs to the period of transition from Anglo Saxon to Mid... ... p. 79, note 1; Modern Philology , I., 5 8; Pub lications of the Modern Language Association of America , XXV ., 25 ff. See also the notes on the l... ...re , VII. (Boston, 1900), 183 ff.; L.F . Mott, Publications of the Modern Language Asso ciation of America, XX, 231 ff.; J.L. Weston, as above (p. x... ...may have used a corruption of one form of the fay’s name, Morgant ( Modern Language Notes, March, 1911, pp. 65 68). I have discussed the various versi... ... king’s nephew. With the other half he devised to conquer Anjou, Auvergne, Gascony, and Poitou; yea, to over run Lorraine and Burgundy, if the task d... ...posed. He conquered Berri, and afterwards T ouraine, Auvergne, Poitou, and Gascony. Guitard, the King of Poitiers, was a valiant captain, having good ... ...d Arthur bid Englishmen alone, but Frenchman and Burgundian, Auvergnat and Gascon, Norman and Poitivin, Angevin and Fleming, together with him of Brab...

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...name, if even that, of the great fights of Hafrsfirth or Sticklestead. The language and history of Greece and Rome, their laws and religions, have bee... ...pe, is but the beginning of a great new birth, that shall give back to our language and literature all that heedlessness and ignorance bid fair for aw... ...he Reformation, which did little good, if any, and the ravages of English, Gascon, and Algerine pirates who made havoc on the coast; (10) they appear ... ...e poems then produced are quite beyond parallel with those of any Teutonic language for centuries after their date, which lay between the beginning of... ...ful of all 25 The V olsunga Saga the Eddaic poems; a poem that any age or language might count among its most precious possessions. From this point t...

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...face to face with some other horses, whom they, no doubt, asked in horses’ language: “Who may you be? What are you doing? Are you comfortable?” When t... ..., and the fresh blacking on a pair of boots with gaping soles, to which no language can do justice. However, to give some notion of this medley of eff... ...esan’s Life eye for a woman,” said he to himself, using an expression of a language of his own, in which his observations, or Corentin’s, were summed ... ... know me at all,” Peyrade went on, with a keen glance at the Prefet. “Your language is either too severe to a man who has been the head of the police ... ...ect. Asie beat a retreat, growling down the stairs in highly revolutionary language; she spoke of the guillotine! “What have you said to her?” asked t... ... but Bixiou. “Hallo, good men all, he is as English as I am!—My uncle is a Gascon! I could have no other!” Bixiou and Peyrade were alone, so no one he...

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...-color properly; she danced extremely well; and she had studied the French language, history, geography, English, Italian,— in short, all that constit... ...ible to these vulgar minds; he was navigating their waters; he spoke their language. His painter was Pierre Grassou, and not Joseph Bridau; his book ... ...was bewildered; she was, however, awake to the ex- treme frankness of such language, and she said to herself, “He is not a secret manoeuvrer, certainl... ...esser Bourgeoisie Flavie, to whom in all her life love had never taken the language of romance, sat still, but happy, her heart palpitat- ing, and say... ...ents of this man most was his joviality and his repartees; he talked their language. Cadenet, his two shop-men, and Cerizet, living in the midst of dr... ...sity! does that exist for noble natures, for those who know how to will? A Gascon minister uttered a saying which ought to be engraved on the doors of...

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...act, and tell; thou, like a Dutchman enclosed in the same diligence with a Gascon, to hear, and shrug thy shoulders. Of Dumfries, the capital town of ... ...r to do, confine themselves within the simplicity of truth, but employ the language of falsehood, not only for profit, but for compli- ment, and somet... ...hastily swallowed, and in small quantity. ‘Nay,’ said Joshua, ‘use not the language of compliment with those who renounce it. Had this poor courtesy b... ...rases which the civility of the time had devised, as an admissible mode of language betwixt the two parties. Thus he spoke sometimes of the Chevalier,... ...ter with the auld bitch next?’ [Tradition ascribes this whimsical style of language to the ingenious and philosophical Lord Kaimes.] said an acute met... ...following manner; having at length, and after making several copies, found language to qualify the sense of resentment which burned in the first, draf...

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... heiresses of Bordeaux in the days when the old duke reigned in Guienne as governor. The Norman then sold the estate he owned in Bessin, and became a Gascon, allured by the beauty of the chateau de Lanstrac, a delightful residence owned by his wife. During the last days of the reign of Louis XV., he bought the post of major of the Gate Guards, and lived till 1813, having b...

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...governor. The Norman then sold the estate he owned in Bessin, and became a Gascon, allured by the beauty of the chateau de Lanstrac, a delightful resi... ...und result 4 The Marriage Contract was the fruit produced by grafting the Gascon on the Norman. Madame de Manerville died in 1810. Having learned the... ...e son, without lack- ing the physical courage which is vital in the air of Gascony, dared not struggle against his father, and consequently lost that ... ... express the flowery beauty of the fops and beaux of the olden time, whose language and demeanor were social laws: she called him “the pink of fashion... ...attempting to say to Paul a few flattering phrases as to Natalie’s manner, language, and beauty, ending by re- marks, cruelly calculated to deter him,... ...such speeches soon silenced them; for he now set the tone to the ideas and language as well as to the manners of those about him. He had imported from... ...thers impose on their daughters by laying down a programme of behavior and language until the time comes when they marry and are emancipated. She was ... ...ing off! Monsieur de Manerville is so disappointed that I—” No descriptive language can express the confusion and shock which the words, “break off,” ... ...Maitre Solonet, a notary in Bordeaux. That usurer in embryo (who came from Gascony for job- bery) is the proxy of your very honorable mother-in-law, w...

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...desire Was painted in my looks; and thus I spake My wish more earnestly than language could. As Daniel, when the haughty king he freed From ire, ... ...vance; for these wheels Only nine years have compass him about. But, ere the Gascon practice on great Harry, Sparkles of virtue shall shoot forth in h... ...resset, the clear sparks Of love, that reign’d there, fashion to my view Our language. And as birds, from river banks Arisen, now in round, now length... ...son of delight; Whence truly sprang the wrath that banish’d me; And what the language, which I spake and fram’d Not that I tasted of the tree, my son,... ... return, Thousand save sev’nty times, the whilst I dwelt Upon the earth. The language I did use Was worn away, or ever Nimrod’s race Their unaccomplis... ...de o’er all the pastures. Arm of God! Why longer sleepst thou? Caorsines and Gascona Prepare to quaff our blood. O good beginning To what a vile concl... ...nder the influence of Mars, but at this time only nine years old v. 80. The Gascon.] Pope Clement V. v. 80. Great Harry.] The Emperor Henry VII. v. ... ... 51. Wolves.] Compare Milton, P. L. b. xii. 508, &c. v. 53. Cahorsines and Gascons.] He alludes to Jacques d’Ossa, a native of Cahors, who filled th... ...en two years vacant, and assumed the name of John XXII., and to Clement V, a Gascon, of whom see Hell, Canto XIX. 86, and Note. v. 63. The she goat.]...

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...e been, in his own fashion, as out spoken as Tiraqueau. If such freedom of language could be permitted in a grave treatise of law, similar liberties w... ...reproach always brought against Rabelais is not the want of reserve of his language merely, but his occasional studied coarseness, which is enough to ... ... spoke as those of his time used to speak; when amusing them he used their language to make himself understood, and to slip in his asides, which witho... ...revolt from him, and turn away repulsed at once by the archaic form of the language and by the out- spokenness of the words. But if he be read aloud t... ...was surnamed (Greek), that is to say the Fortunate and the Well-beloved. A Gascon could not have surpassed this. Gifted as he was, learned in many dir... ...ankind and embalm your dust, So undeceiving us, that now we see All wit in Gascon and in Cromarty, Besides that Rabelais is convey’d to us, And that o... ...ey found nine flagons set in such order as they use to rank their kyles in Gascony, of which that which was placed in the middle had under it a big, f... ...e army, in the meantime, shall draw towards Onys, Xaintonge, Angomois, and Gascony. Then march to Perigot, Medoc, and Elanes, taking wherever you come... .... I remember, on a time, that in the camp at Stockholm there was a certain Gascon named Gratianauld, native of the town of Saint Sever, who having los...

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...s. Thou art perplexed, and hast the wish that my speech be bolted again in language so open and so plain that it may be level to thy sense, where just... ...; for only nine years have these wheels re- volved around him. But ere the Gascon cheat the lofty Henry 7 some sparkles of his virtue shall appear, i... ...ime under the influence of the heavens. 10 God was known in the primitive language by the sacred and mystical symbol I or J, the Hebrew letter Jod; a... ...nce of God, why dost thou yet lie still! To drink our blood Cahorsines and Gascons are making ready: 5 O good beginning, to what vile end behoves it ... ...native of Cahors; his immediate predecessor, Clement V., 1305- 1314, was a Gascon. The passage is one of those which shows that this portion of the po...

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... pierc’d by no star, That e’en I wept at entering. Various tongues, Horrible languages, outcries of woe, Accents of anger, voices deep and hoarse, Wit... ...d Aesop’s fable, where he told What fate unto the mouse and frog befell. For language hath not sounds more like in sense, Than are these chances, if t... ...hus while no way they found Nor avenue immediate through the flame, Into its language turn’d the dismal words: But soon as they had won their passage ... ...o more One tongue prevails. But pass we on, nor waste Our words; for so each language is to him, As his to others, understood by none.” Then to t... ...and lies, Began its rapine; after, for amends, Poitou it seiz’d, Navarre and Gascony. To Italy came Charles, and for amends Young Conradine an innocen... ...v. 63. For amends.] This is ironical v. 64. Poitou it seiz’d, Navarre and Gascony.] I venture to read Potti e Navarra prese e Guascogna, instead ... ...vance; for these wheels Only nine years have compass him about. But, ere the Gascon practice on great Harry, Sparkles of virtue shall shoot forth in h... ...de o’er all the pastures. Arm of God! Why longer sleepst thou? Caorsines and Gascona Prepare to quaff our blood. O good beginning To what a vile concl... ...nder the influence of Mars, but at this time only nine years old v. 80. The Gascon.] Pope Clement V. v. 80. Great Harry.] The Emperor Henry VII. v. ...

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... emprise, Which was so very prompt in the beginning. “If I have well thy language understood,” Replied that shade of the Magnanimous, “Thy soul ... ... And she began to say, gentle and low, With voice angelical, in her own language: ‘O spirit courteous of Mantua, Of whom the fame still in the wo... ...hrough the air without a star, Whence I, at the beginning, wept thereat. Languages diverse, horrible dialects, Accents of anger, words of agony, ... ... Thou fain wouldst have,” then said he unto me, “The empress was of many languages. To sensual vices she was so abandoned, That lustful she made l... ...iting yonder leads me here, Whom in disdain perhaps your Guido had.” His language and the mode of punishment Already unto me had read his name; ... ...e Its rapine; and thereafter, for amends, Took Ponthieu, Normandy, and Gascony. Charles came to Italy, and for amends A victim made of Conradin,... ... yet Around about him have these wheels revolved. 317 Dante But ere the Gascon cheat the noble Henry, Some sparkles of his virtue shall appear ... ... of God, why dost thou slumber still? To drink our blood the Caorsines and Gascons Are making ready. O thou good beginning, Unto how vile an end ...

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...k it upon himself, and there fol- lowed the duel which enriched the French language with the expression coup de Jarnac.” “Oh! does it go so far back? ... ... away but one-half. (Remark how I word my phrase for you in hu- manitarian language.) For these, all material interests lie with- out the range of sen... ...othe him. Godefroid neither rolled his r’s, nor lapsed into Normanisms nor Gascon; he spoke pure and 16 The Firm of Nucingen correct French, and tied... ...he Powers.—Pooh! with a good deal of trouble he equipped himself with four languages—that is to say, he laid in a stock of four words for one idea. Th... ..., while foregoing none of her rights to scold, to tease, to use unmeasured language, to be jealous without grounds, to do anything, in short, that mak...

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...name was corrupted into that of Caerlunda, and again in time, by change of language, into Londres. Lud, when he died, was buried in this town, near th... ...eration, till thy kingdom shall be translated to another, whose manner and language the people under thee knoweth not. Nor shall thy sin be done away ... ...nacre, physician to King Henry VIII., a man learned in the Greek and Latin languages, and particularly skilful in physick, by which he restored many f... ...nch, and Italian; for, besides being well skilled in Greek, Latin, and the languages I have mentioned, she is mistress of Spanish, Scotch, and Dutch. ... ...r of learned men are supported, and the studies of all polite sciences and languages flourish. I think proper to mention some few things about the fou... ...e; but that want is supplied from abroad by the best kinds, as of Orleans, Gascon, Rhenish, and Spanish. The general drink is beer, which is prepared ...

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...ey are so only in appearance. The fact is that art is working far ahead of language as well as of science, realising for us, by all manner of suggesti... ... anything clear until we are able to formulate it in words, and analytical language has not been sufficiently shaped to that end. We all know this dif... ...s may be the impression that it has left with us; and it is only be- cause language is the medium of romance, that we are pre- vented from seeing that... ...ons of man to man, he has set before himself the task of realising, in the language of romance, much of the involu- tion of our complicated lives. Thi... ...ults and their signal excellences, are the five great novels. Romance is a language in which many persons learn to speak with a certain appearance of ... ... red waistcoat, and horrifying Bourgeois in a public cafe with paradox and gasconnade. A leading trait throughout his whole career was his desire to b... ... history of France – he is no more than a stalking-horse for the ambitious Gascon. Sometimes the smoke lifts, and you can see him for the twin- kling ... ...se are exceptional seasons, and, for the most part, he merely rides at the Gascon’s bridle over devastated France. His very party go, not by the name ...

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... the only machinery in use was the primitive wooden invention to which the language owes a figure of speech—“the press 4 Two Poets groans” was no mer... ...e paper was trimmed and damped down. Here, too, the forms, or, in ordinary language, the masses of set-up type, were washed. Inky streams issuing then... ...e, almost effeminate, figure, graceful though it was, Lucien possessed the Gascon temperament to the highest degree—rash, brave, and adventurous, pron... ...eologize, tragedify, prosify, and colossify—you must vio- late the laws of language to find words to express the new- fangled whimsies in which even w... ...led whimsies in which even women here and there in- dulge. The heat of her language communicated itself to the brain, and the dithyrambs on her lips w... ... in charge, he superintended the children’s education, taught them foreign languages, and looked after the fortunes of M. and Mme. de Senonches with t...

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... o spare myself the task of disclosing my unheard-of sufferings, for which language has no name, I will tell you this—that I am in the deepest, most h... ...d and body unruffled. Yet, I have seen the whole world. I have learned all languages, lived after every manner. I have lent a Chinaman money, taking h... ...ith a child’s simplicity, a worker only from necessity or caprice. “In the language of Maitre Alcofribas, we are about to make a famous troncon de chi... ... I devoted most of my time to that long work, for which I studied Oriental languages, physiology and anatomy. If I do not deceive myself, my la- bors ... ...l refuse. All women fallen on evil days are sis- ters; they speak a common language; they have the same generosity—the generosity that possesses nothi... ...n to laugh, and treated me as a mixture of a man of genius and a fool. His Gascon accent and knowledge of the world, the easy life his clever manage- ... ...he long-suffering charity of love. “‘Not quite so fast,’ urged the prudent Gascon; ‘Foedora has all the sagacity natural to a profoundly selfish woman... ...pertinence of the speculator whose capi- tal is imaginary. That devil of a Gascon quite disconcerted me by the coolness of his manners and his absolut...

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...ished for the service of ladies. He spoke well and little: ever mixing his language with some illustration out of authors most in use, especially in S... ...t of all our French writers, not only for the simplicity and purity of his language, wherein he excels all others, nor for his constancy in going thro... ...enemy not being distinguished from yourself by any apparent mark either of language or habit, and being nour- ished under the same law, air, and manne... ...bear filch- ing, though with intent to restore what they had taken. I am a Gascon, and yet there is no vice I so little understand as that; I hate it ... ... make others say for me, not before but after me, what, either for want of language or want of sense, I cannot myself so well express. I do not number... ...wherewith to entertain us, they bring in the story to supply the defect of language. It is quite otherwise with my author; the elegance and perfection... ...curvy language. There is, indeed, above us towards the mountains a sort of Gascon spoken, that I am 160 Book the Second mightily taken with: blunt, b... ...hem not at all understood? I have known a hundred and a hundred women (for Gascony has a certain prerogative for obstinacy) whom you might sooner have...

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...Lannes,and Belliard, mount and ride to bridge. (Observe that all three are Gascons.) ‘Gentle- men,’ says one of them, ‘you know the Thabor Bridge is m... ...Auersperg. He lets them enter the tete-de-pont.** They spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that the war is over, that the Emperor Francis is arrang... ...ence to make Prince Auersperg’s acquaintance.’ In a word, those gentlemen, Gascons indeed, so bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered b... ...lowed to speak, turns to Auersperg with feigned astonishment (he is a true Gascon) and says: ‘I don’t recognize the world-famous Austrian discipline, ... ..., “because I have a detestation for all the French, and the same for their language which I cannot support to hear spoken.... We in Moscow are elated ... ...poleon wished to come to Moscow, grew angry, abused the French in very bad language, came out of the drink shop, and, under the sign of the eagle, beg... ...a position j’ai des devoirs,”* said Helene changing from Russian, in which language she always felt that her case did not sound quite clear, into Fren... ...rs formed of him soon after his arrival at the shed. With his knowledge of languages, the re- spect shown him by the French, his simplicity, his readi... ...racteristic of genius. Even that final running away, described in ordinary language as the lowest depth of baseness which every child is taught to be ...

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...menos prosephe,” read on the student, his voice choked with emotion. “What language!” he said; “how rich, how noble, how sonorous! prosephe podas—” Th... ...d he, with high-bred courtesy: “’twas not French I read, ’twas the Godlike language of the blind old bard. In what can I be serviceable to ye, lady?” ... ...ointed to sit with the Prisoner, was affected by his noble and appropriate language, and also burst into tears. “Y ou weep, my Snoggin,” the Boy said;... ...the Pope, were heard by turns; and each, after a rapid colloquy in his own language, was dis- missed by Rafael. 26 Thackeray “The queen must come bac... ...have we here?” The august individual who had spoken, had used the He- brew language to address Mendoza, and the Lord Codlingsby might easily have plea... ...ning: and the more moody as he sat in his great hall silently draining his Gascony wine. Silently sat he and looked at his coats-of-mail hanging vacan... ...ied, but I sit here, Alive and merry at forty year, Dipping my nose in the Gascon wine.” “Who taught thee that merry lay, Wamba, thou son of Wit- less...

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...lled now? England itself, and the people English. They spoke much the same language as we do, only more as untaught country people, and they had not s... ...ains. There they have gone on living ever since, and talking their own old language. The English called them Welsh, a name that meant strangers, and w... ...a prince who had been born in their country—had never spoken a word of any language but theirs. They all came, and the king came down to them with his... ...ately been born in Caernarvon Castle, and, of course, had never spoken any language at all. The Welsh were obliged to accept him; and he had a Welsh n... ...r when Edward came into Scot- land with a fine army of English, Welsh, and Gascons from Aquitaine; but Robert Bruce was a great and able general, and ... ... to be taught as well as Latin, and the New Testament was thus read in the language in which the apostles themselves wrote; and that led people to thi...

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...confines of Normandy, Picardy, and the Ile-de-France, a bastard land whose language is without accent and its landscape is without character. It is th... ...nsecutively to a “lady.” How then had he been able to explain, and in such language, the number of things that he could not have said so well before? ... ...rueux, the draper. He was a man of ability , was this shop- keeper. Born a Gascon but bred a Norman, he grafted upon his southern volubility the cunni... ...ne who reposes bathed in warmth, expanded softly and fully at this glowing language. “But if I did not come,” he continued, “if I could not see you, a... ...e eternal monotony of passion, that has always the same forms and the same language. He did not distinguish, this man of so much experience, the diffe... ...xed. She had made up her mind to resignation, to universal indulgence. Her language about everything was full of ideal expressions. She said to her ch...