10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JEUX DESPRIT»
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1
Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay
Excuse these digressions : the sum total amounts to this — it appears to me
extremely difficult, throughout a whole spirited comedy, to steer clear of those
agreeable, frolicsome jeux desprit, on the one hand, and languor and heaviness
on the ...
Fanny Burney, Charlotte Barrett, 1842
2
Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art and Politics
... who began his literary career by undertaking to supply the deficiencies of D'
Alembert, while he wrote me about a jeux desprit, with all seriousness. One
curious little incident occurs to me here in connection with the signature I had
adopted.
3
Benjamin Franklin: his autobiography: with a narrative of ...
... hundred and seventy-three, and in the thirty-third year of our reign. " ' By the
king, in his council. " ' Rechtmaessig, Sec! "Some take this Edict to be merely one
of the king's jeux desprit ; others suppose it serious, and that LIFE OF FRANKLIN.
Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Hastings Weld, 1849
4
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
... and sometimes very unfair ; but his jocoseness was usually so distinct from
mere flippant derisiveness, and his unfairness was redeemed by such delicacy of
wit and courtesy of manner, that his most malicious jeux desprit seldom raised
the ...
5
Half-Hours with the Best Letter-Writers and Autobiographers: ...
Poor Mr. Dallas construes these effusions in a very charitable spirit: "I considered
these letters, though evidently grounded on some occurrences in the still earlier
part of his life, rather as jeux desprit than as a true portrait." 37. — English Bards ...
... POPULAR CONJURING R. HELLER 88 DRAWING-ROOM ILLUSIONS (with
Illusliatioiv) J. II. Cremer 90 GAMES FOR THE LITTLE ONES E. Ocilvy 91
PICTORIAL ACROSTICS 92. 93 DOUBLE ACROSTICS. JEUX DESPRIT.
RIDDLES. &c.
7
The North British review
Every man, it seems, fought for his own hand in Blackwood ; and, following the
example of Sir Walter Scott in his novels, they put forth their jeux desprit under
cover of the names of imaginary and sometimes of real personages. Hogg, Leigh
...
8
A compendious history of English literature, and of the ...
... are modern forgeries, — jeux desprit, in fact, of the reverend Doctor.2
Occasional pamphlets, containing foreign news, began to be published in
England towards the close of the reign of James I. The earliest that has been met
with is entitled ...
George Lillie Craik, 1871
9
The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs
... greater sinner against the then popular theology than even Darwin himself.
Others seemed to regard the hypothesis of the meteoric introduction of life as a
huge scientific joke.1 Maxwell made it the subject of one of his rhyming jeux
desprit, ...
Silvanus Phillips Thompson, 2011
10
Two Years in New South Wales: Comprising Sketches of the ...
... and the other consisting of birth-day odes, songs, and jeux desprit, by our
venerable laureate Mr. Michael Robinson,) are all about to appear. In fact,
printing is now executed here very neatly, as our newspapers (to go no farther)
manifest.
Peter Miller Cunningham, 1828
