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diff --git a/41713-h/41713-h.htm b/41713-h/41713-h.htm index 8876c89..fbfe5b0 100644 --- a/41713-h/41713-h.htm +++ b/41713-h/41713-h.htm @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of Quips and Quiddities, by W. Davenport Adams. @@ -62,44 +62,7 @@ hr { </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -Project Gutenberg's Quips and Quiddities, by William Davenport Adams - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: Quips and Quiddities - A Quintessence of Quirks Quaint, Quizzical and Quotable - -Author: William Davenport Adams - -Release Date: December 27, 2012 [EBook #41713] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES *** - - - - -Produced by Chris Curnow, Eric Skeet and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 41713 ***</div> <h1>QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES</h1> @@ -174,7 +137,7 @@ de Salamanca</span>.<br /> LATTER-DAY LYRICS. Edited by <span class="smcap">W. Davenport Adams</span>.<br /> -BALZAC'S COMÉDIE HUMAINE AND ITS AUTHOR. +BALZAC'S COMÉDIE HUMAINE AND ITS AUTHOR. With Translations by <span class="smcap">H. H. Walker</span>.</p> <p class="center"><img src="images/stars.jpg" style="float: none; height: 20px;" alt=" " /> <i>Other Volumes are in preparation.</i></p> @@ -230,7 +193,7 @@ poem, over essay and novel, over maxim and epigram, over memoir and diary. There is pun, and there is parody; there is satire, and there is sarcasm. In a word, the little book may say, with -Lafontaine, "Diversité c'est ma devise." There is +Lafontaine, "Diversité c'est ma devise." There is diversity even in the arrangement, which consists merely of a general alternation of the prose and verse. For the rest, the quips and quiddities are @@ -697,7 +660,7 @@ Was simply an Ascidian worm:<br /> And having then the habit got<br /> Of passing liquor down his throat,<br /> He keeps it still, and shows full well<br /> -That Man—was—once——a leather bottèl. +That Man—was—once——a leather bottèl. </p> <p class="right"><span class="smcap">Lord Neaves</span>, <i>Songs and Verses</i>. @@ -812,7 +775,7 @@ arch in the Carrousel, placed upon it an empty car, drawn by the famous bronze Venetian horses. Talleyrand asked him, "<i>Qui avez vous l'intention de mettre dans le char?</i>" The answer was, "<i>L'Empereur -Napoléon, comme de raison</i>." Upon which Talleyrand +Napoléon, comme de raison</i>." Upon which Talleyrand said, "<i>Le char l'attend</i>."</p> <p class="right"> @@ -857,7 +820,7 @@ Like the rest, I should dote upon "Molly;"<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">And "poor Mrs. Gaskell—how sad!"</span><br /> "Like Browning?" "But so-so." His proof lay<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Too deep for her frivolous mood,</span><br /> -That preferred your mere metrical <i>soufflé</i><br /> +That preferred your mere metrical <i>soufflé</i><br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">To the stronger poetical food;</span><br /> Yet at times he was good—"as a tonic:"<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Was Tennyson writing just now?</span><br /> @@ -958,7 +921,7 @@ She, herself, makes her own faces,<br /> </p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capc.jpg" alt="C" /> -ÉLÉBRITÉ—l'avantage d'être connu de ceux que +ÉLÉBRITÉ—l'avantage d'être connu de ceux que vous ne connaissez pas.</p> <p class="right"><span class="smcap">Chamfort</span>, <i>Maximes</i>. @@ -972,7 +935,7 @@ Who last Christmas still was blushing at her elder sister's side;<br /> Still on some minute allowance finding collars, boots, and gloves,<br /> Still to cousinly flirtations limiting her list of loves,<br /> Still by stern domestic edict charged on no account to read<br /> -Any of Miss Brontë's novels, or to finish <i>Adam Bede</i>.<br /> +Any of Miss Brontë's novels, or to finish <i>Adam Bede</i>.<br /> </p> <p class="right"> @@ -1194,7 +1157,7 @@ And, reduced to all-fours, must then narrow their views,<br /> Which would shortly unfit them for wearing our shoes,<br /> <span style="margin-left: 12em;">Which nobody can deny.</span><br /> <br /> -Their vertebræ next might be taken away,<br /> +Their vertebræ next might be taken away,<br /> When they'd sink to an oyster, or insect, some day,<br /> Or the pitiful part of a polypus play,<br /> <span style="margin-left: 12em;">Which nobody can deny.</span> @@ -1299,7 +1262,7 @@ Knowles, "I beg you ten thousand pardons: I took you for your <i>namesake</i>, T. P. Cooke!"</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -1360,10 +1323,10 @@ Till their knees came right under their nose,—<br /> <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capo.jpg" alt="O" /> -N ne loue d'ordinaire que pour être loué.</p> +N ne loue d'ordinaire que pour être loué.</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -1517,7 +1480,7 @@ said Theodore Hook, "every Sunday morning."</p> OMKINS will clear the land, they say,<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">From every foul abuse;</span><br /> So chimneys in the olden time<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Were cleansèd by a goose.</span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Were cleansèd by a goose.</span> </p> <p class="right"> @@ -1562,7 +1525,7 @@ not know what is a sound divine," quoting Pope—</p> </p> <p>"But I do," said Donaldson. "It is a divine who is -<i>vox et præterea nihil</i>."</p> +<i>vox et præterea nihil</i>."</p> <p class="right"> <span class="smcap">Crabb Robinson</span>, <i>Diary</i>. @@ -1721,7 +1684,7 @@ of the Company that he <i>floundered</i> so?"</p> HO knows if what Adam might speak<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Was mono- or poly-syllabic;</span><br /> Was Gothic, or Gaelic, or Greek,<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Tartàric, Chinese, or Aràbic?</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Tartà ric, Chinese, or Arà bic?</span><br /> It may have been Sanskrit or Zend—<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">It must have been something or other;</span><br /> But thus far I'll stoutly contend,—<br /> @@ -1776,7 +1739,7 @@ the bass drum better than any man I ever met.</p> </p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capt.jpg" alt="T" /> -HE Duke of Rutland, at one of his levées, +HE Duke of Rutland, at one of his levées, being at a loss for something to say to every person he was bound in etiquette to notice, remarked to Sir John Hamilton that there was a prospect @@ -1812,11 +1775,11 @@ And the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw<br /> <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capl.jpg" alt="L" /> -E monde récompense plus souvent les apparances -du mérite que le mérite même.</p> +E monde récompense plus souvent les apparances +du mérite que le mérite même.</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -1864,7 +1827,7 @@ Rogers." Maltby, still looking at the pictures, "And was it?"</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Rogers</span>, <i>apud</i> <span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>. +<span class="smcap">Rogers</span>, <i>apud</i> <span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -1973,7 +1936,7 @@ I might not bring myself at last<br /> 'ART de plaire est l'art de tromper.</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Vauvenargues</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">Vauvenargues</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -2071,7 +2034,7 @@ see—<i>four by honours</i>!"</p> <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capa.jpg" alt="A" /> -H! who has seen the mailèd lobster rise,<br /> +H! who has seen the mailèd lobster rise,<br /> Clap her broad wings, and, soaring, claim the skies?<br /> When did the owl, descending from her bower,<br /> Crop, 'midst the fleecy flocks, the tender flower;<br /> @@ -2092,11 +2055,11 @@ To flower like myrtle, or like violets bloom.<br /> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capu.jpg" alt="U" /> NE femme d'esprit m'a dit un jour un mot qui -pourrait bien être le secret de son sexe; c'est +pourrait bien être le secret de son sexe; c'est que toute femme, en prenant un amant, tient -plus de compte de la manière dont les autres femmes -voient cet homme que de la manière dont elle le voit -elle-même.</p> +plus de compte de la manière dont les autres femmes +voient cet homme que de la manière dont elle le voit +elle-même.</p> <p class="right"> <span class="smcap">Chamfort</span>, <i>Maximes</i>. @@ -2322,11 +2285,11 @@ I never read Shickspur.<br /> <p style="margin-left: 6em"><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capn.jpg" alt="N" /> UL n'est content de sa fortune<br /> -Ni mécontent de son esprit.<br /> +Ni mécontent de son esprit.<br /> </p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Madame Deshoulières</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">Madame Deshoulières</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -2336,7 +2299,7 @@ Ni mécontent de son esprit.<br /> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capi.jpg" alt="I" /> N courtship suppose you can't sing<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Your Cara, your Liebe, your Zoë,</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Your Cara, your Liebe, your Zoë,</span><br /> A kiss and a sight of the ring<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Will more quickly prevail with your Chloe.</span><br /> <br /> @@ -2518,7 +2481,7 @@ wedded wife, by his scratching his head and saying, HE prospect's always fine in the Prospectus!</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Songs and Poems</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Songs and Poems</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -3084,12 +3047,12 @@ But now that I'm perfectly sure I have none,<br /> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capw.jpg" alt="W" /> HEN the question arose how the title of Herold's -charming opera, "Le Pré aux Clercs," should be +charming opera, "Le Pré aux Clercs," should be rendered into English, [Beazley] quietly suggested "Parson's Green."</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -3321,8 +3284,8 @@ Meanwhile, I will smoke my canaster,<br /> <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capl.jpg" alt="L" /> -'AMOUR est comme les maladies épidémiques; -plus on les craint, plus on y est exposé.</p> +'AMOUR est comme les maladies épidémiques; +plus on les craint, plus on y est exposé.</p> <p class="right"> <span class="smcap">Chamfort</span>, <i>Maximes</i>. @@ -3571,7 +3534,7 @@ nous en peut arriver. </p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -3865,7 +3828,7 @@ called it making a new "Gradus ad Parnassum," because it was steps for the <i>muses</i>.</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>.<br /> +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>.<br /> </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -3886,10 +3849,10 @@ Climb stiffly up, take breath, and wait<br /> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_65" id="Page_65">[65]</a></span></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capl.jpg" alt="L" /> -A constance est la chimère de l'amour.</p> +A constance est la chimère de l'amour.</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Vauvenargues</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">Vauvenargues</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -4271,7 +4234,7 @@ And that's what a Frenchman is made of. <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capm.jpg" alt="M" /> ARRIAGE is a desperate thing. The frogs in -Æsop were extreme wise; they had a great mind +Æsop were extreme wise; they had a great mind to some water, but they would not leap into the well, because they could not get out again.</p> @@ -4428,10 +4391,10 @@ M. de la Rochefoucauld to Mademoiselle Bigottini, the beautiful and graceful dancer, in the course of conversation with this gentleman, asked him in what part of the theatre he was placed; upon which he -replied, "Mademoiselle, <i>dans un loge róti</i>," instead of -"<i>grillé</i>." The lady could not understand what he meant, +replied, "Mademoiselle, <i>dans un loge róti</i>," instead of +"<i>grillé</i>." The lady could not understand what he meant, until his introducer explained the mistake, observing, -"<i>Ces diables d'Anglais pensent toujours à leur Rosbif</i>."</p> +"<i>Ces diables d'Anglais pensent toujours à leur Rosbif</i>."</p> <p class="right"> <span class="smcap">Gronow</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. @@ -4507,7 +4470,7 @@ Unless something's done to cure it,<br /> </p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Songs and Poems</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Songs and Poems</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -4537,7 +4500,7 @@ Are hostile properties.<br /> <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capa.jpg" alt="A" /> -T a musical <i>soirée</i> in Paris, a lady, possessing a +T a musical <i>soirée</i> in Paris, a lady, possessing a magnificent soprano voice and remarkable facility of execution, sang the great Maestro's well-known aria, "Una Voce," with great effect, but overladen @@ -4548,7 +4511,7 @@ his encomiums with the cruel inquiry: "Mais de qui est la musique?"</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>.<br /> +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>.<br /> </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -4696,7 +4659,7 @@ But smuts the most prodigious fell,<br /> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_79" id="Page_79">[79]</a></span></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capl.jpg" alt="L" /> -'HYMEN vient après l'amour, comme la fumée après la flamme. +'HYMEN vient après l'amour, comme la fumée après la flamme. </p> <p class="right"> @@ -5088,7 +5051,7 @@ Rossini raised his eyes to the abused ceiling, and simply ejaculated, "Heureux plafond!"</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -5134,7 +5097,7 @@ for fifty!"</p> EY vented to de Voman's Righds,<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Vere laties all agrees,</span><br /> De gals should pe de voters,<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And deir beaux all de votées.</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">And deir beaux all de votées.</span><br /> "For efery man dat nefer vorks,<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Von frau should vranchised pe:</span><br /> Dat ish de vay I solf dis ding,"<br /> @@ -5212,11 +5175,11 @@ l'argent des autres. <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capt.jpg" alt="T" /> -OUS les méchants sont buveurs d'eau. +OUS les méchants sont buveurs d'eau. </p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Comte de Ségur.</span> +<span class="smcap">Comte de Ségur.</span> </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -5379,7 +5342,7 @@ Its cheese is mity, and its ale is weak.<br /> <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capa.jpg" alt="A" /> -T a fête at Hatfield House, <i>tableaux vivants</i> were +T a fête at Hatfield House, <i>tableaux vivants</i> were among the chief amusements, and scenes from <i>Ivanhoe</i> were among the selections. All the parts were filled up but that of <i>Isaac of York</i>. Lady @@ -5505,7 +5468,7 @@ OUS avons tous assez de force pour supporter les maux d'autrui. </p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -5661,11 +5624,11 @@ dangerous thing, especially in literature.</p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/caps.jpg" alt="S" /> I les hommes ne se flattaient pas les uns les autres, -il n'y aurait guère de société. +il n'y aurait guère de société. </p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Vauvenargues</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">Vauvenargues</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -5841,7 +5804,7 @@ Lamb, "he would cast a damper even over a funeral."</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_99" id="Page_99">[99]</a></span></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capl.jpg" alt="L" /> -'AMOUR plaît plus que le mariage, par la +'AMOUR plaît plus que le mariage, par la raison que les romans sont plus amusants que l'histoire. </p> @@ -5986,7 +5949,7 @@ am, sir," answered the driver; "what's all the world to a man when his wife's a widdy?"</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -6043,11 +6006,11 @@ may be some time before you get another."</p> <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capo.jpg" alt="O" /> -N aime mieux dire du mal de soi-même que de +N aime mieux dire du mal de soi-même que de n'en point parler.</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -6143,8 +6106,8 @@ Then why should a woman not get a degree? <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capq.jpg" alt="Q" /> -<i>UAM parvâ sapientiâ regitur mundus.</i> Say rather, -<i>quam magnâ stultitiâ</i>.</p> +<i>UAM parvâ sapientiâ regitur mundus.</i> Say rather, +<i>quam magnâ stultitiâ</i>.</p> <p class="right"> <span class="smcap">Charles Buxton</span>, <i>Notes of Thought</i>. @@ -6236,11 +6199,11 @@ If you are wise, I think you are a fool."<br /> <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capn.jpg" alt="N" /> -OUS aimons mieux voir ceux à qui nous faisons +OUS aimons mieux voir ceux à qui nous faisons du bien que ceux qui nous en font.</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -6368,7 +6331,7 @@ Their sides are many, too,—and all<br /> Some sanguine people love for life,<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Some love their hobby till it flings them.—</span><br /> How many love a pretty wife<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For love of the <i>éclat</i> she brings them!</span><br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">For love of the <i>éclat</i> she brings them!</span><br /> </p> <p class="right"> @@ -6432,7 +6395,7 @@ when, with a deep sigh, he added—</p> </p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -6789,11 +6752,11 @@ was that the wise men did come from the East."</p> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_116" id="Page_116">[116]</a></span></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capc.jpg" alt="C" /> -E qui nous empêche souvent de nous abandonner -à un seul vice est que nous en avons plusieurs.</p> +E qui nous empêche souvent de nous abandonner +à un seul vice est que nous en avons plusieurs.</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -6882,7 +6845,7 @@ said that Evanson was a <i>luke</i>-warm Christian.</p> EADING the paper Laura sat,<br /> "Greenwich <i>mean</i> time, mamma, what's that?"<br /> "My love, it's when your stingy Pa<br /> -Won't take us to the Trafalgàr." +Won't take us to the Trafalgà r." </p> <p class="right"> @@ -6949,7 +6912,7 @@ my old friend said, "Mr. Hook, you see your dinner." "Thank you, ma'am," said I; "but where is yours?"</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Theodore Hook</span>, <i>apud</i> <span class="smcap">Planché</span>.<br /> +<span class="smcap">Theodore Hook</span>, <i>apud</i> <span class="smcap">Planché</span>.<br /> </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -6970,10 +6933,10 @@ Points out some circumstance to please us.<br /> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_119" id="Page_119">[119]</a></span></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capo.jpg" alt="O" /> -N ne donne rien si libéralement que ses conseils.</p> +N ne donne rien si libéralement que ses conseils.</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions.</i><br /> +<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions.</i><br /> </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -7043,9 +7006,9 @@ and handsome! When we are old and ugly, woman snubs and scolds us.</p> <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capl.jpg" alt="L" /> -A société est composée de deux grandes classes: -ceux qui ont plus de dîners que d'appétit, et -ceux qui ont plus d'appétit que de dîners.</p> +A société est composée de deux grandes classes: +ceux qui ont plus de dîners que d'appétit, et +ceux qui ont plus d'appétit que de dîners.</p> <p class="right"> <span class="smcap">Chamfort</span>, <i>Maximes</i>. @@ -7218,10 +7181,10 @@ But of course they can sit still at home,<br /> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capl.jpg" alt="L" /> A haine des faibles n'est pas si dangereuse que -leur amitié.</p> +leur amitié.</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Vauvenargues</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">Vauvenargues</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -7255,7 +7218,7 @@ hereafter? Absolutely nothing.</p> <p style="margin-left: 3em"><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capw.jpg" alt="W" /> HEN sorely tempted to purloin<br /> -Your <i>pietà</i> of Marc Antoine,<br /> +Your <i>pietà </i> of Marc Antoine,<br /> Fair virtue doth fair play enjoin,<br /> <span style="margin-left: 5em;">Fair Virtuoso!</span> </p> @@ -7502,9 +7465,9 @@ on his rounds two undergraduates, who were without their gowns, or out of bounds, or out of hours. He challenged one: "Your name and college?" They were given. Turning to the other: "And -pray, sir, what might your name be?" "Julius Cæsar," +pray, sir, what might your name be?" "Julius Cæsar," was the reply. "What, sir, do you mean to say your -name is Julius Cæsar?" "Sir, you did not ask me what +name is Julius Cæsar?" "Sir, you did not ask me what it is, but what it <i>might</i> be."</p> <p class="right"> @@ -7784,7 +7747,7 @@ would have been," he answered, "if damned custom had not <i>brazed</i> it so."</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -7862,8 +7825,8 @@ If it's true that the weakest must go to the Wall.<br /> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_135" id="Page_135">[135]</a></span></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capl.jpg" alt="L" /> -A vertu des femmes est peut-être une question du -tempérament.</p> +A vertu des femmes est peut-être une question du +tempérament.</p> <p class="right"> <span class="smcap">Balzac</span>, <i>Physiologie du Mariage</i>. @@ -7986,7 +7949,7 @@ Black their eyelids till they stare,<br /> Wash with soda, till their hair<br /> <span style="margin-left: 9em;">Looks like maize;</span><br /> 'Tis the fashion to be blonde<br /> -<i>À la mode du demi-monde</i><br /> +<i>À la mode du demi-monde</i><br /> <span style="margin-left: 9em;">Now-a-days.</span> </p> @@ -8178,7 +8141,7 @@ remarked "because they lessen from day to day." <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capq.jpg" alt="Q" /> -UICONQUE n'a pas de caractère n'est pas un +UICONQUE n'a pas de caractère n'est pas un homme: c'est une chose.</p> <p class="right"> @@ -8430,7 +8393,7 @@ dangerous thing.</p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capl.jpg" alt="L" /> OVERS, we pray you, gaining our consents,<br /> -Let us, too, have <i>our</i> mediæval bents;<br /> +Let us, too, have <i>our</i> mediæval bents;<br /> Give us, for cricket matches, tournaments. </p> @@ -8471,7 +8434,7 @@ dear fellow," retorted the wit; "it is the last chapter of Samuel."</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -8634,11 +8597,11 @@ Then like a lump of lead he falls. <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_149" id="Page_149">[149]</a></span></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capo.jpg" alt="O" /> -N fait souvent du bien pour pouvoir impunément +N fait souvent du bien pour pouvoir impunément faire du mal.</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -8790,11 +8753,11 @@ Ladies are all for union—to a man! <p style="margin-left: 4em"><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/caps.jpg" alt="S" /> I c'est un crime de l'aimer,<br /> -On n'en doit justement blâmer<br /> -Que les beautés qui sont en elle;<br /> +On n'en doit justement blâmer<br /> +Que les beautés qui sont en elle;<br /> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">La faute en est au dieux</span><br /> <span style="margin-left: 2em;">Qui la firent si belle,</span><br /> -<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Et non pas à mes yeux.</span> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Et non pas à mes yeux.</span> </p> <p class="right"> @@ -8908,7 +8871,7 @@ But now all subtle souls revert<br /> To the abbreviated skirt,<br /> Whose velvet <i>paniers</i> just denote<br /> The gown, that else were petticoat.<br /> -Nor is such <i>naïve</i> attire enough:<br /> +Nor is such <i>naïve</i> attire enough:<br /> Elizabeth's archaic ruff<br /> Rings every neck; besides, they rival,<br /> With a High-Gothic-Hat-Revival,<br /> @@ -9000,7 +8963,7 @@ looked up at him compassionately, and said, "My dear sir! I'm afraid your religion doesn't agree with you."</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -9114,7 +9077,7 @@ When Bloomfield ventured to pronounce,<br /> The Regent, hearing what was said,<br /> Raised from his couch his aching head,<br /> And cried, "No, Halford, 'tis not so!<br /> -<i>Cure us, O</i> doctor,—<i>Curaçoa!</i>"<br /> +<i>Cure us, O</i> doctor,—<i>Curaçoa!</i>"<br /> </p> <p class="right"> @@ -9308,12 +9271,12 @@ That sort of job, you know, would suit me best." <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capt.jpg" alt="T" /> -OUT le monde se plaint de sa mémoire, et +OUT le monde se plaint de sa mémoire, et personne ne se plaint de son jugement.</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -9324,8 +9287,8 @@ personne ne se plaint de son jugement.</p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capw.jpg" alt="W" /> HEN lately Pym descended into Hell,<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Ere he the cups of Lethè did carouse,</span><br /> -What place that was, he callèd loud to tell;<br /> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Ere he the cups of Lethè did carouse,</span><br /> +What place that was, he callèd loud to tell;<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">To whom a Devil—"This is the Lower House."</span> </p> @@ -9384,7 +9347,7 @@ find any stuffing in a roasted leg of pork, Poole quietly suggested, "Perhaps it is in the other leg?"</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -9474,7 +9437,7 @@ if in nothing else.</p> <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capl.jpg" alt="L" /> -A plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où +A plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l'on n'a pas ri.</p> <p class="right"> @@ -9717,7 +9680,7 @@ Australian meats, and men who call<br /> T being asked at Paris whom they would have as godfather for Rothschild's baby—"Talleyrand," said a Frenchman. "Pourquoi, monsieur?" -"Parcequ'il est le moins chrétien possible."</p> +"Parcequ'il est le moins chrétien possible."</p> <p class="right"> <span class="smcap">B. R. Haydon</span>, <i>Diary</i>. @@ -9746,8 +9709,8 @@ The boats move silently, as in a dream—<br /> MILE de Girardin, the famous political writer, a natural son of Alexandre de Girardin, becoming celebrated, Montrond said to his father, -"Dépêchez-vous de le reconnaître, ou bientôt il ne -vous reconnaîtra pas."</p> +"Dépêchez-vous de le reconnaître, ou bientôt il ne +vous reconnaîtra pas."</p> <p class="right"> <span class="smcap">Gronow</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. @@ -9793,7 +9756,7 @@ contrasts; and a trifle of sugar.</p> <p style="margin-left: 1em"><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/cape.jpg" alt="E" /> XQUISITE wine and comestibles<br /> From Slater, and Fortnum and Mason;<br /> -Billiards, écarté, and chess-tables;<br /> +Billiards, écarté, and chess-tables;<br /> Water in vast marble basin;<br /> Luminous books (not voluminous)<br /> To read under beech-trees cacuminous;<br /> @@ -10410,7 +10373,7 @@ Who nightly climbed their "family trees," and on the top reposed, sir.<br /> There's Carlyle, on the other hand, whose first and last concern it is<br /> To preach up the "immensities" and muse on the "eternities";<br /> But if one credits what one hears, the gist of all his brag is, sir,<br /> -That "Erbwürst," rightly understood, is transcendental haggis, sir. +That "Erbwürst," rightly understood, is transcendental haggis, sir. </p> <p class="right"> @@ -10462,7 +10425,7 @@ What he missed is mystery." </p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -10523,8 +10486,8 @@ If, instead of the "kid," she had buried the calf! <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capi.jpg" alt="I" /> -L est plus facile de légaliser certaines choses que -de les légitimer.</p> +L est plus facile de légaliser certaines choses que +de les légitimer.</p> <p class="right"> <span class="smcap">Chamfort</span>, <i>Maximes</i>. @@ -10614,7 +10577,7 @@ too much wine at dinner, teased Count D'Orsay, and said some very disagreeable things, which irritated him; when suddenly John Bush entered the club and shook hands with the Count, who exclaimed, -"Voilà, la différence entre une bonne <i>bouche</i> et une mauvaise +"Voilà , la différence entre une bonne <i>bouche</i> et une mauvaise <i>haleine</i>."</p> <p class="right"> @@ -10765,7 +10728,7 @@ who says he does not like a good dinner, is either a fool or a liar."</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -10812,7 +10775,7 @@ illustration of the old proverb, "It never rains but it <i>powers</i>."</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -10921,11 +10884,11 @@ Ask her when Gyges' ship comes back. <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capl.jpg" alt="L" /> A reconnaissance de la plupart des hommes n'est -qu'une secrète envie de recevoir de plus grands +qu'une secrète envie de recevoir de plus grands bienfaits.</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -10967,7 +10930,7 @@ At such a moment I but ask<br /> </p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Songs and Poems</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Songs and Poems</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -11034,7 +10997,7 @@ ENERAL ORNANO, observing a certain nobleman—who, by some misfortune in his youth, lost the use of his legs—in a Bath chair, which he wheeled about, and inquiring the name of the -English peer, D'Orsay answered, "Père la Chaise."</p> +English peer, D'Orsay answered, "Père la Chaise."</p> <p class="right"> <span class="smcap">Gronow</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. @@ -11119,7 +11082,7 @@ Sea in which to swim,<br /> Sea where sorrow sinks,<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">Ne'er to rise again—oh,</span><br /> Blessedest of drinks,<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Welcome, "Pommery Gréno!"</span> +<span style="margin-left: 2em;">Welcome, "Pommery Gréno!"</span> </p> <p class="right"> @@ -11623,12 +11586,12 @@ The inflammation of his weekly bills. <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capo.jpg" alt="O" /> -N n'a guère de défauts qui ne soient plus pardonnables +N n'a guère de défauts qui ne soient plus pardonnables que les moyens dont on se sert pour les cacher.</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -11686,7 +11649,7 @@ Oh, when shall a man see thy fellow,<br /> </p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Songs and Poems</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Songs and Poems</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -11849,13 +11812,13 @@ Just breaking off the point of it,<br /> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capm_brac.jpg" alt="[M" /> ONTROND'S] death was a very wretched one. Left alone to the tender mercies of a well-known -"lorette" of those days, Desirée R——, +"lorette" of those days, Desirée R——, as he lay upon his bed, between fits of pain and drowsiness, he could see his fair friend picking from his shelves -the choicest specimens of his old Sèvres china, or other +the choicest specimens of his old Sèvres china, or other articles of <i>vertu</i>. Turning to his doctor, he said, with a gleam of his old fun, "Qu'elle est attachante, cette -femme-là!"</p> +femme-là !"</p> <p class="right"> <span class="smcap">Gronow</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. @@ -12067,11 +12030,11 @@ And his language to me from his bunk, Miss,<br /> <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capn.jpg" alt="N" /> -OUS ne trouvons guère de gens de bons sens que +OUS ne trouvons guère de gens de bons sens que ceux qui sont de notre avis.</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -12206,7 +12169,7 @@ And in the murmur of the breeze<br /> </p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Songs and Poems</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Songs and Poems</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -12264,7 +12227,7 @@ ROLY said very smart things, and with surprising readiness. I was at his table one day when one of the guests inquired the name of a pyramidal dish of barley-sugar. Some one replied, "A pyramid -<i>à Macédoine</i>." "For what use?" rejoined the other. +<i>à Macédoine</i>." "For what use?" rejoined the other. "To give a <i>Philip</i> to the appetite," said Croly. </p> @@ -12309,7 +12272,7 @@ moment. </p> <p style="margin-left: 2em"><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capw.jpg" alt="W" /> -HEN I was young and <i>débonnaire</i>,<br /> +HEN I was young and <i>débonnaire</i>,<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">The brownest nymph to me was fair;</span><br /> But now I'm old, and wiser grown,<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">The fairest nymph to me is Brown.</span><br /> @@ -12509,7 +12472,7 @@ mustard to a very little meat!" </p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -12687,7 +12650,7 @@ daughter of the Duke de ——, was expatiating at great length on the virtues, good qualities, and talents of his future wife, but without making allusion to her birth. "A t'entendre," observed Montrond, "on -dirait que tu épouses une fille surnaturelle."</p> +dirait que tu épouses une fille surnaturelle."</p> <p class="right"> <span class="smcap">Gronow</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. @@ -12889,7 +12852,7 @@ He only lost his way, and was be-nighted. <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/caps.jpg" alt="S" /> -ATAN was a blunderer, an introducer of <i>novità</i>, +ATAN was a blunderer, an introducer of <i>novità </i>, who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattered.</p> @@ -13295,7 +13258,7 @@ For I fear I have nothing original in me—<br /> <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capl.jpg" alt="L" /> -A société est un état de guerre, réglé par les lois.</p> +A société est un état de guerre, réglé par les lois.</p> <p class="right"> <i>L'Art de Parvenir.</i> @@ -13370,7 +13333,7 @@ come again!" </p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Recollections</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -13501,7 +13464,7 @@ arms, in allusion to his brother, the well-known fish-sauce projector:</p> <p class="center" style="font-size: smaller"> -"<i>Gravi</i> jamdudum <i>saucia</i> curâ." +"<i>Gravi</i> jamdudum <i>saucia</i> curâ." </p> <p class="right"> @@ -13799,11 +13762,11 @@ to either.</p> <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capl.jpg" alt="L" /> -A curiosité n'est que la vanité. Le plus souvent +A curiosité n'est que la vanité. Le plus souvent on ne veut savoir que pour en parler.</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">Pascal</span>, <i>Pensées</i>. +<span class="smcap">Pascal</span>, <i>Pensées</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -13930,7 +13893,7 @@ Music that was "most music-hall,"<br /> </p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Songs and Poems</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Songs and Poems</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -13972,12 +13935,12 @@ Yet hope for sympathy,—but don't<br /> <p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_244" id="Page_244">[244]</a></span></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capn.jpg" alt="N" /> -OUS pardonnons souvent à ceux qui nous ennuient; -mais nous ne pouvons pardonner à ceux qui +OUS pardonnons souvent à ceux qui nous ennuient; +mais nous ne pouvons pardonner à ceux qui nous ennuyons.</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -14454,7 +14417,7 @@ That nothing is impossible to her.<br /> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capi.jpg" alt="I" /> REMEMBER a Trinity College (Dublin) story of -a student who, having to translate Cæsar, rendered +a student who, having to translate Cæsar, rendered the first sentence, "Omnis Gallia divisa est in tres partes,"—"All Gaul is quartered into three halves."</p> @@ -14626,7 +14589,7 @@ have his."</p> ITH undissembled grief I tell,—<br /> <span style="margin-left: 1em;">For sorrow never comes too late,—</span><br /> The simplest bonnet in Pall Mall<br /> -<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Is sold for £1 8<i>s.</i></span> +<span style="margin-left: 1em;">Is sold for £1 8<i>s.</i></span> </p> <p class="right"> @@ -14667,7 +14630,7 @@ For that's the time those birds of prey<br /> </p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Songs and Poems</i>. +<span class="smcap">J. R. Planché</span>, <i>Songs and Poems</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -14700,11 +14663,11 @@ I trow 'tis useless asking me. <p><br /></p> <p><img style="float: left; height: 42px;" src="images/capl.jpg" alt="L" /> -E vrai honnête homme est celui qui ne se pique de +E vrai honnête homme est celui qui ne se pique de rien.</p> <p class="right"> -<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. +<span class="smcap">La Rochefoucauld</span>, <i>Réflexions</i>. </p> <p><br /></p> @@ -15514,7 +15477,7 @@ slightly. She does not move. "I may?"<br /> <br /> Davies, Scrope, quoted, <a href="#Page_130">130</a><br /> <br /> - Deshoulières, Madame, quoted, <a href="#Page_37">37</a><br /> + Deshoulières, Madame, quoted, <a href="#Page_37">37</a><br /> <br /> <i>Devil's Walk, the</i>, quoted, <a href="#Page_36">36</a><br /> <br /> @@ -16180,7 +16143,7 @@ slightly. She does not move. "I may?"<br /> <br /> ----, a sensation, described, <a href="#Page_93">93</a><br /> <br /> - November, Planché on, <a href="#Page_203">203</a><br /> + November, Planché on, <a href="#Page_203">203</a><br /> <br /> Number One, Lytton on, <a href="#Page_50">50</a><br /> <br /> @@ -16246,7 +16209,7 @@ slightly. She does not move. "I may?"<br /> <br /> Pennell, H. Cholmondeley, quoted, <a href="#Page_16">16</a>, <i>et seq.</i><br /> <br /> - <i>Pensées</i>, Pascal's, quoted, <a href="#Page_240">240</a><br /> + <i>Pensées</i>, Pascal's, quoted, <a href="#Page_240">240</a><br /> <br /> Permissive Bill, the, <a href="#Page_203">203</a><br /> <br /> @@ -16274,7 +16237,7 @@ slightly. She does not move. "I may?"<br /> <br /> "Plain leg of mutton," <a href="#Page_55">55</a><br /> <br /> - Planché, J. R., quoted, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>, <i>et seq.</i><br /> + Planché, J. R., quoted, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>, <i>et seq.</i><br /> <br /> Pleasing, the art of, <a href="#Page_31">31</a><br /> <br /> @@ -16294,7 +16257,7 @@ slightly. She does not move. "I may?"<br /> <br /> "Policeman's lot, the," <a href="#Page_209">209</a><br /> <br /> - Pommery Gréno, <a href="#Page_193">193</a><br /> + Pommery Gréno, <a href="#Page_193">193</a><br /> <br /> Poole, <i>mot</i> by, <a href="#Page_161">161</a><br /> <br /> @@ -16385,13 +16348,13 @@ slightly. She does not move. "I may?"<br /> <br /> ----, Mackay's, quoted, <a href="#Page_68">68</a>, <i>et seq.</i><br /> <br /> - ----, Planché's, quoted, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>, <i>et seq.</i><br /> + ----, Planché's, quoted, <a href="#Page_9">9</a>, <i>et seq.</i><br /> <br /> <i>Record of a Girlhood</i>, quoted, <a href="#Page_1">1</a>, <i>et seq.</i><br /> <br /> Reece, Robert, quoted, <a href="#Page_57">57</a>, <i>et seq.</i><br /> <br /> - <i>Réflexions</i>, Deshoulières', quoted, <a href="#Page_37">37</a><br /> + <i>Réflexions</i>, Deshoulières', quoted, <a href="#Page_37">37</a><br /> <br /> ----, La Rochefoucauld's, <a href="#Page_20">20</a>, <i>et seq.</i><br /> <br /> @@ -16469,7 +16432,7 @@ slightly. She does not move. "I may?"<br /> <br /> <i>Season, the</i>, quoted, <a href="#Page_19">19</a>, <i>et seq.</i><br /> <br /> - Sègur, Comte de, quoted, <a href="#Page_87">87</a><br /> + Sègur, Comte de, quoted, <a href="#Page_87">87</a><br /> <br /> Selden, John, quoted, <a href="#Page_11">11</a>, <i>et seq.</i><br /> <br /> @@ -16524,7 +16487,7 @@ slightly. She does not move. "I may?"<br /> <br /> Society, two classes in, <a href="#Page_120">120</a><br /> <br /> - <i>Songs and Poems</i>, Planché's, quoted, <a href="#Page_75">75</a>, <i>et seq.</i><br /> + <i>Songs and Poems</i>, Planché's, quoted, <a href="#Page_75">75</a>, <i>et seq.</i><br /> <br /> <i>Songs and Verses</i>, Neaves's, quoted, <a href="#Page_8">8</a>, <i>et seq.</i><br /> <br /> @@ -16844,385 +16807,6 @@ direct quotations from other sources.</p> <p>An Index is provided at the end of the book. 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