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Page 271 - You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse : The red plague rid you, For learning me your language ! Pro.
Page 232 - Je roule avec dédain, sans voir et sans entendre, A côté des fourmis les populations; Je ne distingue pas leur terrier de leur cendre, J'ignore en les portant les noms des nations. On me dit une mère et je suis une tombe. Mon hiver prend vos morts comme son hécatombe, Mon printemps ne sent pas vos adorations.
Page 338 - THE HOUSE IN ST. MARTIN'S STREET. Being Chronicles of the Burney Family. By CONSTANCE HILL, Author of " Jane Austen, Her Home, and Her Friends," " Juniper Hall,
Page 271 - And show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile: Cursed be I that did so! All the charms Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you! For I am all the subjects that you have, Which first was mine own king...
Page 335 - who possess old letters, documents, correspondence, ±MSS., scraps of autobiography, and also miniatures and portraits, relating to persons and matters historical, literary, political and social, should communicate with <£Mr. John Lane, The Bodley Head, Vigo Street, London, W., 'who will at all times be pleased to give his advice and assistance, either as to their preservation or publication.
Page 232 - Sur mon cœur déchiré viens poser ta main pure ; Ne me laisse jamais seul avec la Nature, Car je la connais trop pour n'en pas avoir peur. Elle me dit : « Je suis l'impassible théâtre Que ne peut remuer le pied de ses acteurs ; Mes marches d'émeraude et mes parvis d'albâtre, Mes colonnes de marbre ont les dieux pour sculpteurs.
Page 271 - em. CALIBAN: I must eat my dinner. This island's mine by Sycorax my mother, Which thou tak'st from me. When thou earnest first, Thou strok'dst me and mad'st much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That bum by day, and night; and then I lov'd thee And show'd thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile.
Page 8 - Guilty, now I pour my moaning, all my shame with anguish owning; spare, O God, Thy suppliant groaning ! Thou the sinful woman savest; Thou the dying thief forgavest; and to me a hope vouchsafest.
Page 339 - England learn, and did they ever venture to write English? An almost unqualified admiration for everything French then prevailed : French tailors, milliners, cooks, even fortune-tellers, as well as writers and actresses, reigned supreme. How far did gallomania affect the relations between the two countries?