"L'enfant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... soeur ou de mere qu'un pretexte, que le droit de ne lui rien cacher de ma tendresse. Ce n'est pas de l'interet ... de l'amitie ... du devouement ... c'est de l'amour!... J'aime!... (Avec effroi.) J'aime!... moi! et ma rivale, c'est l'enfant de mon coeur, c'est un ange de grace, de bonte. Ah! tu n'as qu'une resolution a prendre! renferme, renferme ta folle passion dans ton coeur comme une honte, cache-la, etouffe-la.... (Apres un moment de silence.) Je ne peux pas! Depuis que ce feu couvert a eclate a mes propres yeux, ...
— Bataille De Dames • Eugene Scribe and Ernest Legouve
... qui de lui issoient Contreval l'Arbre en avaloient; Adonc regarda l'enfant Seth Tout contreval de L'ARBRE SECQ; Les rachines qui le tenoient Jusques en Enfer s'en aloient, Les larmes qui de lui issirent Jusques dedans ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... and Joan's female statue long occupied her place among the Popes in the Cathedral of Sienna. She has been annihilated by two learned Protestants, Blondel and Bayle; but their brethren were scandalized by this equitable and generous criticism. Spanheim and L'Enfant attempted to save this poor engine of controversy, and even Mosheim condescends to cherish some doubt and suspicion."—The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chap. xlix. Spanheim's work, Joanna Papissa Restituta, was ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 75, April 5, 1851 • Various
... eighth, Major L'Enfant, with a detachment attempted to set fire to the abattis in order to clear the way for the assault, but failed to through the dampness of the wood. The plan of the assault may be quite accurately obtained from the orders given to the American troops on the evening of ...
— The Colored Regulars in the United States Army • T. G. Steward
... in this year's exhibition is that there are three pictures of the assassination of Marat by Charlotte Corday, two of which are hung in the same room. There are also three paintings representing a scene from Victor Hugo's Histoire d'un Crime, "L'enfant avait recu deux balles dans la tete." The child is represented in Henry Gervex's picture as being lifted up by his friends, who are examining the poor little wounded, bleeding head. It is powerful in composition and a very thrilling, realistic picture. The other two representations ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, September 1880 • Various |
