Annales de Bretagne, Volume 12

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Facultés des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Universities of Rennes et Nantes., 1896
Appended to each number: Chronique de la Faculté.
 

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Page 468 - Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god : '' for it is most true, that a natural and secret hatred and aversion towards society in any man hath somewhat of the savage beast ; but it is most untrue that it should have any character at all of the divine nature, except it proceed, not out of a pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation...
Page 287 - J'ai mesuré autrefois Shakespeare avec la lunette classique ; instrument excellent pour apercevoir les ornements de bon ou de mauvais goût, les détails parfaits ou imparfaits ; mais microscope inapplicable à l'observation de l'ensemble, le foyer de la lentille ne portant que sur un point et n'embrassant pas la surface entière. Dante, aujourd'hui l'objet d'une de mes plus hautes admirations, s'offrit à mes yeux dans la même perspective raccourcie.
Page 469 - Thou faery voyager! that dost float In such clear water, that thy boat May rather seem To brood on air than on an earthly stream; Suspended in a stream as clear as sky, Where earth and heaven do make one imagery; 0 blessed vision! happy child! Thou art so exquisitely wild, 1 think of thee with many fears For what may be thy lot in future years.
Page 468 - Tyana; and truly and really in divers of the ancient hermits and holy fathers of the church. But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. The Latin adage meeteth with it a little, Magna civitas, magna solitudo...
Page 469 - Thou art so exquisitely wild, 1 think of thee with many fears For what may be thy lot in future years. I thought of times when Pain might be thy guest, Lord of thy house and hospitality; And Grief, uneasy lover ! never rest But when she sate within the touch of thee. O too industrious folly! O vain and causeless melancholy ! Nature will either end thee quite; Or, lengthening out thy season of delight, Preserve for thee, by individual right, A young lamb's heart among the full-grown flocks.
Page 307 - The western waves of ebbing day Rolled o'er the glen their level way; Each purple peak, each flinty spire, Was bathed in floods of living fire. But not a setting beam could glow Within the dark ravines below, Where twined the path in shadow hid, Round many a rocky pyramid, Shooting abruptly from the dell Its...
Page 308 - This earth you tread upon (A dowry, as you hope, with this fair princess), By my dead father (oh, I had a father, Whose memory I bow to!) was not left To your inheritance, and I up and living — Having myself about me and my sword, The...
Page 356 - ... 11. Que la chasse sera défendue à qui que ce soit depuis le premier jour de mars jusqu'à la mi-septembre, et que fuies et colombiers seront rasés, et permis de tirer sur les pigeons en campagne. 12. Qu'il sera loisible d'aller aux moulins que l'on voudra, et que les meuniers seront contraints de rendre la farine au poids du blé. 13.

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