His forte, I understand, is the higher mathematics; my turn, I confess, is more to poetry and the belles lettres.

Pas tant de belles phrases, mais du pain, du pain, il n'y a point ici de conspirateursnous demandons du pain parceque nous avons saim.

Il y a dans Burse deux bazars; l'un où l'on vend des étoffes de soie de toute espèce, de riches et belles pierreries, grande quantité de perles, et à bon marché, des toiles de coton, ainsi qu'une infinité d'autres marchandises dont l'énumération sèroit trop longue; l'autre où l'on achète du coton et du savon blanc, qui fait là un gros objet de commerce.

La belle image.

et, chemin faisant,[202] j'accomplirai devant vous de si belles choses, que vous finirez par vous dire: Voilà un pauvre garçon dont j'ai fait un héros ... faisons-en un homme heureux!

Je rève en te voyant Harmonie et lumière, O ma rivière, O ma belle rivière!

On marche ainsi en silence, à moins que ce ne soit la nuit, et que quelqu'un ne veuille chanter une chanson de gestes.[Footnote: On appeloit en France chansons de gestes celles qui célébroient les gestes et belles actions des anciens héros.]

My visit has not been wasted, however, as I had an opportunity of seeing la belle cousine.

not those of men or women, but mystic, hybrid creatures, with hands nervous and pale, and eyes charged with eager and fitful light ... "un soir équivoque d'automne," ... "les belles pendent rêveuses à nos bras" ... and they whisper "les mots spéciaux et tout bas.

Ah! he might bring that into existence which his belles demoiselles had been begging for, 'since many years;' a home,and such a home,in the gay city.

MANDEVILLE, SIR JOHN, English adventurer, named of St. Albans, who from his own account travelled over thirty years in the East, and wrote a narrative of the marvels he experienced in a book of voyages and travels published in 1356; the authorship of this book has been questioned, but on this point there is no doubt that, as Professor Saintsbury says, "it is the first book of belles-lottres in English prose.

avoit la dame moult de belles maisons et moult riches.

By apposition to les belles manières, the manners of a class above one's own.

La Bibliothèque nationale possède de celui-ci un magnifique exemplaire, orné d'un grand nombre de belles miniatures et tableaux.

Elle est traversée d'une rivière qui s'y divise en plusieurs canaux, et fermée dans son enceinte seulement de belles murailles; car les faubourgs sont plus grands que la ville.

You shall give me this for the sake of my belle musique.

Truly la belle nation has little idea of decency, or there would be subterranean sewers like ours.

Nothing can please persons of taste but nature drawn with all her graces and ornamentla belle nature; or, if we copy low life, the strokes must be strong and remarkable, and must convey a lively image to the mind.

But Lady Mary, though only twenty-seven, and therefore, according to her own account, much too youthful for the gallants of Vienna, yet had an experience: "But one of the pleasantest adventures I ever met in my life was last night, and which will give you a just idea after what a delicate manner the belles passions are managed in this country.

Joignez à cela l'immense quantité de belles reliques qu'elle possède, tant de choses qui N. S. a touchées, tant de saints corps d'apôtres, de martyrs, de confesseurs et de vierges; enfin plusieurs églises, où les saints pontifes ont accordé plein pardon de peine et de coulpe (indulgence plénière).

Certainly his expectations had not been very exalted; but there had run through them a hope of something melodramatic, dreams of May-pole dancing and athletic games, somewhat of village-belle rivalry, of the Corin and Sylvia school; or, failing that, a few Touchstones and Audreys, some genial earnest buffo humour here and there.

La belle Dame sans Mercy, was translated from the French of Alain Chartier, secretary to Lewis XI, king of France.

And soon we were to meet the Susquehannabeautiful, broad-bosomed name, that has always haunted my imagination like the name of some beautiful savage princessLa belle sauvage.

Mr. Johnston was a fine belles lettres scholar, and entered readily into the discussions arising from the principles of the Indian languages, and plans for their improvement.

In this miscellany are several poetical performances of Mrs. Martha Fowkes, a lady of exquisite taste in the belle accomplishments.