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9 Quotes for 'Pierre Jean de Beranger' in the Database.
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Pierre Jean de Beranger Quotes
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Old age doth in sharp pains abound;
We are belabored by the gout,
Our blindness is a dark profound,
Our deafness each one laughs about.
Then reason's light with falling ray
Doth but a trembling flicker cast.
Honor to age, ye children pay!
Alas! my fifty years are past!
Topic: Age
Source: Cinquante Ans.
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Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair!
For me her constant flame appears;
The garland she hath culled, I wear
On brows bald since my thirty years.
Ye veils that deck my loved one rare,
Fall, for the crowning triumph's nigh.
Ye Gods! but she is wondrous fair!
And I, so plain a man am I!
Topic: Beauty
Source: Qu'elle est jolie
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In Paris a queer little man you may see,
A little man all in gray;
Rosy and round as an apple is he,
Content with the present whate'er it may be,
While from care and from cash he is equally free,
And merry both night and day!
"Ma foi! I laugh at the world," says he,
"I laugh at the world, and the world laughs at me!"
What a gay little man in gray.
Topic: Content
Source: The Little Man all in Gray, (translation by Amelia B. Edwards)
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Our friends, the enemy.
[Fr., Nos amis, les ennemis.]
Topic: Enemies
Source: L'Opinion de ces Demoiselles
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It is better to decide a difference between enemies than friends,
for one of our friends will certainly become an enemy and one of
our enemies a friend.
Topic: Enemies
Source: L'Opinion de ces Demoiselles
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Adieu! 'tis love's last greeting,
The parting hour is come!
And fast thy soul is fleeting
To seek its starry home.
Topic: Parting
Source: L'Adieu, free translation
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And in the years he reigned; through all the country wide,
There was no cause for weeping, save when the good man died.
[Fr., Ce n'est que lorsqu'il expira
Que le peuple, qui l'enterra pleura.]
Topic: Royalty
Source: Le Roi Yvetot, rendering of Thackeray's "King of Brentford"
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Each year his mighty armies marched forth in gallant show,
Their enemies were targets, their bullets they were tow.
Topic: Soldiers
Source: Le Roi d'Yvetor, (translation by Thackeray "The King of Brentford")
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Gaily! gaily! close our ranks!
Arm! Advance!
Hope of France!
Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks!
Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks!
Topic: War
Source: Les Gaulois et Francois, (C.L. Bett's translation)
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