The Johns Hopkins Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages, Volumes 10-12

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1927
 

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Page 139 - O Smintheus! If ever I built a temple gracious in thine eyes, or if ever I burnt to thee fat flesh of thighs of bulls or goats, fulfil thou this my desire ; let the Danaans pay by thine arrows for my tears.
Page 102 - Pour rendre le lecteur juge impartial de ce grand procès littéraire, il m'a semblé qu'il fallait chercher un sujet qui renfermât dans un même cadre le tableau des deux religions, la morale, les sacrifices, les pompes des deux cultes; un sujet où le langage de la Genèse pût se faire entendre auprès de celui de l'Odyssée...
Page 85 - ... à la main, à l'agueille, à tout acte muliebre honneste et libère, que là estoient. Par ceste raison, quand le temps venu estoit que aulcun d'icelle abbaye, ou à la requeste de ses parens, ou pour aultres causes, voulust issir hors, avecques soy il emmenoit une des dames, celle laquelle l'auroit prins pour son dévot, et...
Page 121 - Après un moment de silence, la prêtresse des Muses dit au chasseur : « Si tu n'es pas un dieu caché sous la forme d'un mortel, tu es sans doute un étranger que les satyres ont égaré comme moi dans les bois. Dans quel port est entré ton vaisseau? Viens-tu de Tyr, si célèbre par la richesse de ses marchands?
Page 139 - So spake he in prayer, and Phoebus Apollo heard him, and came down from the peaks of Olympus wroth at heart, bearing on his shoulders his bow and covered quiver. And the arrows clanged upon his shoulders in his wrath, as the god moved; and he descended like to night. Then he sate him aloof from the ships, and let an arrow fly; and there was heard a dread clanging of the silver bow. First did he assail the mules and fleet dogs, but afterward, aiming at the men his piercing dart, he smote; and the...
Page 30 - Thus spake he, and a black cloud of grief enwrapped Achilles, and with both hands he took dark dust and poured it over his head and denied his comely face, and on his fragrant doublet black ashes fell.
Page 104 - Then in their midst rose up Nestor, pleasant of speech, the clear-voiced orator of the Pylians, he from whose tongue flowed discourse sweeter than honey. Two generations of mortal men already had he seen perish, that had been of old time born and nurtured with him in goodly Pylos, and he was king among the third.
Page 145 - Tell me, O Muse, of the man of many devices, who wandered full many ways after he had sacked the sacred citadel of Troy. Many were the men whose cities he saw and whose mind he learned...
Page 77 - ... and to him that hath toiled long. Neither have I any profit for that I endured tribulation of soul, ever staking my life in fight. Even as a hen bringeth her unfledged chickens each morsel as she winneth it, and with herself it goeth hard, even so I was wont to watch out many a sleepless night and pass through many bloody days of battle, warring with folk for their women's sake.
Page 14 - ... ses passions. Le défaut de cet immortel ouvrage vient de la hauteur de ses leçons, qui ne sont pas calculées pour tous les hommes. On y trouve des longueurs, surtout dans les derniers livres. Mais ceux qui aiment la vertu et chérissent en même temps le beau antique ne doivent jamais s'endormir sans avoir lu le second livre de Télémaque. L'influence de cet ouvrage de Fénelon a été considérable; il renferme tous les principes du jour : il respire la liberté, et la révolution même...

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