Class Book of French Composition: Graduated Extracts from Standard English Authors. Edited with Grammatical and Explanatory Notes and an English-French VocabularyHachette and Company, 1906 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
¹¹ 11 See Ex 9 See Ex adjective adverb Alexandre Dumas aller asked autre avait avant avoir bien Charlotte Corday chose Cloth cœur conj coup court cried dative death deux dire Duchesse de Longueville Duke dwarf enemy English être expression father fois followed France French gentleman heart homme honour infinitive intrans J. F. Davis Jacoby jour jusqu'à king KING WILLIAM STREET lady live livrer look lord lordship manière masc means ment mettre mieux neuter never Note 11 Note 9 noun oneself Paper cover Paris parler participle possessive adjective pouvoir preceded prep preposition prince pron qu'il qu'on Queen render replied Rule subjunctive mood subs temps tion tout trans Translate Turn verb faire verb vouloir Vocabulary words XVII XXIV XXVI XXVII XXXIX XXXVIII
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Página 92 - What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country ! Why sits this sadness on your brows, my friends ? I should have blushed if Cato's house had stood Secure and flourished in a civil war.
Página 53 - There are few great personages in history who have been more exposed to the calumny of enemies and the adulation of friends than Queen Elizabeth ; and yet there is scarcely any whose reputation has been more certainly determined by the unanimous consent of posterity. The unusual length of her administration, and the strong features of her character, were able to overcome all prejudices ; and, obliging her detractors...
Página 146 - have come to an agreement which satisfies us both. They are to say what they please, and I am to do what I please.
Página 86 - 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.
Página 89 - The master aimed a blow at Oliver's head with the ladle, pinioned him in his arms, and shrieked aloud for the beadle.
Página 122 - Have you then forgot the precepts," said Rasselas, " which you so powerfully enforced ? Has wisdom no strength to arm the heart against calamity ? Consider that external things are naturally variable, but truth and reason are always the same.
Página 149 - My friends, said he, I have seriously considered our manners and our prospects, and find that we have mistaken our own interest. The first years of man must make provision for the last. He that never thinks never can be wise. Perpetual levity must end in ignorance ; and intemperance, though it may fire the spirits for an hour, will make life short or miserable. Let us consider that youth is of no long duration, and that in maturer age, when the enchantments of fancy shall cease, and phantoms of delight...
Página 58 - Tis thou, thrice sweet and gracious goddess, addressing myself to LIBERTY, whom all in public or in private worship, whose taste is grateful, and ever will be so, till NATURE herself shall change no tint of words can spot thy snowy mantle or...
Página 80 - It is in the country that the Englishman gives scope to his natural feelings. He breaks loose gladly from the cold formalities and negative civilities of town, throws off his habits of shy reserve, and becomes joyous and freehearted. He manages to collect round him all the conveniences and elegancies of polite life and to banish its restraints.
Página 86 - 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...