Comparative French-English studies, grammatical and idiomatic, being a 2nd, entirely re-written, ed. of French exercises for middle and upper forms, adapted to The student's comparative French grammar |
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مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 101 - Hé, bonjour, monsieur du Corbeau Que vous êtes joli! que vous me semblez beau! Sans mentir, si votre ramage Se rapporte à votre plumage, Vous êtes le phénix des hôtes de ces bois.
الصفحة 129 - Well, my boy, you seem to want nothing at all, so I shall not give you money to make you want anything. But were you ever at school ? B. No, sir; but daddy says I shall go after harvest.
الصفحة 101 - It is indeed a mighty city/ replied he; 'we know not how long it has existed, and our ancestors were on this subject as ignorant as ourselves.' Five centuries afterwards, as I passed by the same place, I could not perceive the slightest vestige of the city. I demanded of a peasant, who was gathering herbs upon its former site, how long it had been destroyed. ' In sooth, a strange question/ replied he. ' The ground here has never been different from what you now behold it.
الصفحة 127 - At length a little boy in a neighbouring field, seeing the affair, ran across where the road made a turn, and, getting before the horse, took him by the bridle, and held him till his owner came up. Mr. L. looked at the boy, and admired his ruddy, cheerful countenance. " Thank you, my good lad ! " said he, " you have caught my horse very cleverly.
الصفحة 101 - I passed one day by a very ancient and wonderfully populous city, and asked one of its inhabitants how long it had been founded. " It is indeed a mighty city," replied he ; " We know not how long it has existed, and our ancestors were on this subject as ignorant as ourselves.
الصفحة 129 - B- Then I do as well as I can ; I work on, and never think of it. Mr. L. Are you not dry sometimes, this hot weather ? B. Yes, but there is water enough. Mr. L. Why, my little fellow, you are quite a philosopher.
الصفحة 129 - What do you do when it rains? B. If it rains very hard I get under the hedge till it is over. Mr. L. What do you do when you are hungry before it is time to go home? B. I sometimes eat a raw turnip. Mr. L. But if there are none?
الصفحة 129 - ... errands, and that is as good as play, you know. Mr. L. Well ; but you could buy apples or gingerbread at the town, I suppose, if you had money ? B.
الصفحة 56 - Il est une déesse inconstante, incommode, Bizarre dans ses goûts , folle en ses ornements , Qui paraît, fuit, revient, et naît en tous les temps: Protée était son père, et son nom est la Mode.
الصفحة 129 - I don't mind it much, for my mammy gives me a pie now and then, and that is as good. Mr. L. — Would you not like a knife to cut sticks ? B. — I have one, — here it is, — brother Tom gave it me. Mr. L. — Your shoes are full of holes, — don't you want a better pair? B. — I have a better pair for Sundays.