Chapters of the Biographical History of the French Academy: With an Appendix Relating to the Unpublished Monastic Chronicle, Entitled, Liber de HydaG.P. Philes & Company, 1864 - 176 pages |
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Page 21 - Qu'on parle mal ou bien du fameux Cardinal, Ma prose ni mes vers n'en diront jamais rien : II m'a fait trop de bien pour en dire du mal, II m'a fait trop de mal pour en dire du bien.
Page 37 - The one was fire and fickleness, a child, Most mutable in wishes, but in mind, A wit as various, - gay, grave, sage, or wild, Historian, bard, philosopher, combined; He multiplied himself among mankind, The Proteus of their talents: But his own Breathed most in ridicule, - which, as the wind. Blew where it listed, laying all things prone, Now to o'erthrow a fool, and now to shake a throne.
Page 142 - Stimulated by these words, or rather by the Divine inspiration, and allured by the beautifully illuminated letter at the beginning of the volume, he...
Page 142 - This he confessed, with many lamentations and sighs, to have been one of his greatest difficulties and impediments in this life, namely, that when he was young and had the capacity for learning, he could not find teachers ; but, when he was more advanced in life, he was harassed by so many diseases unknown to all the physicians of this island, as well as by internal and external anxieties of sovereignty, and by continual invasions of the pagans, and had his teachers and writers also so much disturbed,...
Page 66 - Speedily then passing to another idea, he said, " Christianity ! the Ideologues wished to reduce it to a system of astronomy ! Suppose it were so. do they suppose they would render Christianity little...
Page 142 - Will you really give that book to one of us, that is to say, to him who can first understand and repeat it to you ? ' At this his mother smiled with satisfaction, and confirmed what she had before said.
Page 153 - And Marinus the pope then sent ' lignum Domini ' to king Alfred ; and that same year Sighelm and Athelstan carried to Rome the alms which the king had vowed to send thither, and also to India, to St. Thomas and to St. Bartholomew...
Page 176 - I wyll than men zeve to the hows at Domrahamme here land-bok, and here fredomys, hem to seosyn what hond hem levyst is, for me, and for Elflede, and for here frendys that he ys bownd to, and that I am bounde to, and for the nedy that alyve be, to kepe hyt, that yt may be helthe for my sowle, and that hyt be to me in forzyvenesse, and so I desyre me to be forzeve.
Page 142 - ... in this life, namely, that when he was young and had the capacity for learning, he could not find teachers ; but, when he was more advanced in life, he was harassed by so many diseases unknown to all the physicians of this island, as well as by internal and external anxieties of sovereignty, and by continual invasions of the pagans, and had his teachers and writers also so much disturbed, that there was no time for reading. But yet...
Page 2 - True indeed it is That they whom death has hidden from our sight Are worthiest of the mind's regard ; with these The future cannot contradict the past : Mortality's last exercise and proof Is undergone ; the transit made that shows The very Soul, revealed as she departs.