Matrials for translating from English into French, a short essay on translation; followed by a selection by L. Le BrunLouis Le Brun, Henri van Laun 1869 |
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... speak briefly of the importance which attaches to a good classification of extracts . Parents and teachers , in choosing a passage for translation into French , are often deceived by a first impression , and find that a particular page ...
... speak briefly of the importance which attaches to a good classification of extracts . Parents and teachers , in choosing a passage for translation into French , are often deceived by a first impression , and find that a particular page ...
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... speaking . The expression must here be softened as much as possible to render it correct , and we have the adjective simple , which gives the exact sense . We thus see that the dictionary does not always give the required expression ...
... speaking . The expression must here be softened as much as possible to render it correct , and we have the adjective simple , which gives the exact sense . We thus see that the dictionary does not always give the required expression ...
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... speaking of the flowers which should subsequently adorn it . He considered Around my ivyed porch as the principal image ... speak of her occupations in the first place , and if he adds those of the old mother , it is only to fill up the ...
... speaking of the flowers which should subsequently adorn it . He considered Around my ivyed porch as the principal image ... speak of her occupations in the first place , and if he adds those of the old mother , it is only to fill up the ...
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... speak French . Il se moque de ce que je ne puis parler Français . 5. The learning anything speedily requires great application . Pour apprendre quelque chose promptement , il faut une grande application . 6. Greater virtue is required ...
... speak French . Il se moque de ce que je ne puis parler Français . 5. The learning anything speedily requires great application . Pour apprendre quelque chose promptement , il faut une grande application . 6. Greater virtue is required ...
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... speak- ing their own language induces them to think , at first , that the forms which are so familiar to them are to be found in the syntax of another tongue also ; but this fallacy leads them to serious mistakes . To instance all these ...
... speak- ing their own language induces them to think , at first , that the forms which are so familiar to them are to be found in the syntax of another tongue also ; but this fallacy leads them to serious mistakes . To instance all these ...
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Page 179 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 115 - Hath not a Jew eyes ? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions ? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is ? If you prick us, do we not bleed ? if you tickle us, do we not laugh ? if you poison us, do we not die ? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge 1 if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that.
Page 118 - I had exhausted all the art of pleasing which a retired and uncourtly scholar can possess. I had done all that I could, and no man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.
Page 178 - He was my friend, faithful and just to me ; But Brutus says he was ambitious ; And Brutus is an honourable man. He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill ; Did this in Caesar seem ambitious ? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept ; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff; Vet Brutus says he was ambitious ; And Brutus is an honourable man.
Page 119 - Having carried on my work thus far with so little obligation to any favourer of learning, I shall not be disappointed though I should conclude it, if less be possible, with less ; for I have been long wakened from that dream of hope, in which I once boasted myself with so much exultation. My Lord, your lordship's most humble, most obedient servant,
Page 180 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Page 173 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, meet nurse for a poetic child, • land of brown heath and shaggy wood, land of the mountain and the flood, land of my sires!
Page 179 - If you have tears prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii : Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Page 180 - This was the most unkindest cut of all ; For when the noble Caesar saw him stab, Ingratitude, more strong than traitors...
Page 177 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.