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FOR
FRENCH PROSE COMPOSITION:
OR,
SELECTIONS FROM
THE BEST ENGLISH PROSE WRITERS,
WITH IDIOMATIC RENDERINGS OF DIFFICULT PASSAGES, NOTES,
AND PRACTICAL HINTS TO TRANSLATORS.
BY
FERDINAND E. A. GASC, M.A.
FRENCH MASTER AT BRIGHTON COLLEGE.
LONDON:
BELL AND DALDY, FLEET STREET.
1858.
303.c. 65.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Page
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PREFACE.
Practical Hints to Translators
The Dervis.
.(Addison, Spectator)
A Turkish Tale
(Addison, Spectator)
Tit for Tat ..
(*
Rabelais a Traitor
(Spectator)
The Hare and the Tortoise . (James's Fables of Æsop)
Muly Moluc
Destruction of the Alexandrian Library
- (Harris)
Valentine and Unnion
(Tatler)
The Fox without a Tail
(James's Fables of Æsop)
On Modesty
(Lord Chesterfield's Letters)
The Art of Pleasing .
The Lazy Mind
England and Scotland (Sir W. Scott, Tales of a Grandfather)
The British Empire . . (J. R. MacCulloch, British Empire)
Description of England. (J. R. MacCulloch, British Empire)
Mahomet's Miracles
(Gibbon's Roman Empire)
Columbus at Barcelona (Washington Irving's Columbus)
On the Employment of Time. (Wm. Cowper's Letters)
Sir Roger de Coverley
On some Pleasures in Rural Life . (Wm. Cowper's Letters)
The Comparison of Watches (Edgeworth’s Modern Griselda)
Hearers and Doers. ..(S. Clarence, Not a Minute to Spare)
Scene from “The Good-natured Man"
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(0. Goldsmith)
Another Scene from “ The Good-natured Man" (O. Goldsmith)
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Firmness of Alexander Severus . '(Gibbon's Roman Empire) 53
School-day Anecdotes
(Sir W. Scott, Autobiography) 54
Robinson Crusoe in his Island
. (Defoe) 59
Gulliver's Way of Living in the Country of Lilliput. (Swift) 62
A Travelling Incident . (Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit) 65
The Literary Snobs (W. M. Thackeray, The Book of Snobs) 70
Scene from “The School for Scandal”
. (Sheridan) 72
Lord Byron to Thomas Moore
(Byron's Letters) 79
Meeting of Waverley and Mac Ivor. (Scott, Waverley) 83
A Few Words of Advice to Young People · (Wm. Cobbett) 85
Pope to Wycherley
(Pope's Letters) 89
The Death of Bayard (Robertson, History of Charles V.) 91
On Anger
(Dodsley, Economy of Human Life) 93
The Cataract of Niagara
(Goldsmith) 95
Brutus on the Death of Cæsar (Shakspeare, Julius Cæsar) 97
Scene between the Jews Shylock and Tubal. (Shakspeare) 98
A Sketch of the Normans (T. B. Macaulay, History of England) 100
Influence of the French Language and Literature in the Age
of Louis XIV. (T. B. Macaulay, History of England) 104
John Bull
(Washington Irving, Sketch-Book) 106
A Practical Useful Hint
(Fielding, Tom Jones) 109
A Pretty Quarrel between Master Tom Jones and his Play-
mate.
(Fielding, Tom Jones) 112
Sophia's Little Bird
(Fielding, Tom Jones) 115
Scene from “ The Rivals"
(Sheridan) 119
Louis XI.
(Sir Walter Scott, Quentin Durward) 123
Sketch of Cæsar's Career and Character (George Long) 127
The Dead Ass
(Sterne, Sentimental Journey) 129
The Starling
(Sterne, Sentimental Journey) 131
Fox · (Lord Brougham, Statesmen of the Time of George III.) 135
Montaigne · (Hallam, Introduction to the Literature of Europe) 138
The Vicar of Wakefield and his Family (0. Goldsmith) 141
The Spell of Wealth . (W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair) 146
Real Happiness
(W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair) 149
Rural Life in England (Washington Irving. Sketch-Book) 152
Moonlight Scenery (Sir Walter Scott, Guy Mannering) 155
Lady Montagu to Mrs. Thistlethwayte (Lady Montagu's Letters) 157
The Burning of Moscow. (Scott's History of Napoleon ) 164
Scene from “ The Critic”
· (Sheridan) 169
Swift to Lord Treasurer Oxford .
(A. Letter) 175
Worldly Motives
(W. M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair) 178
The Story of Lefevre.
(Sterne, Tristram Shandy) 183
Scene from “She Stoops to Conquer". (0. Goldsmith) 196
A Sea-fog and Wreck. (Captain Basil Hall, Fragments) 203
A Highland Revenge.
· (Sir Walter Scott, Rob Roy) 217
The Widow and her Son. (Washington Irving, Sketch Book) 221
An Episode of the late War, 1855. (W. H. Russell, The War) 226
Poor Richard
(Benjamin Franklin) 229
The Old Man and his Ass
· (World) 242
Louis XVI, in Prison
(George Long) 244
Professional Education .
(Sydney Smith, Essays) 248
Female Education
· (Sydney Smth, Essays) 250
Dr. Johnson to Lord Chesterfield
(A Letter) 253
The Death of Wm. Pitt, Earl of Chatham (T. B. Macaulay) 255
Scene from “The Clandestine Marriage” (Garrick and Colman) 259
The Native Village . (Charles Lamb, Rosamund Gray) 265
On Forming a Taste for Simple Pleasures (Vicesimus Knox) 269
On the Folly of Inconsistent Expectations (Mrs. Barbauld) 272
Religion never to be treated with Levity.
(H. Blair) 276
Scene from “Money”.
.(Sir E. Bulwer Lytton) 277
Lord Chatham's Speech on the Immediate Removal of the
Troops from Boston, in America
280
The Spectre Guest's Coming · (Miss Mitford, Country Stories) 286
Town versus Country
(Miss Mitford, Country Stories) 290
The Battle of Pharsalia. (O. Goldsmith, History of Rome) 295
The Battle of Otterburn (Sir W. Scott, Tales of a Grandfather) 303
The Defeat of the Spanish Armada.
.(E. S. Creasy) 308
The Battle of Assye (From the Duke of Wellington's Despatches) 313
Memorandum on the Battle of Assye (Id.)
316
The Battle of the Alma .
(W. H. Russell, The War) 321