10 LIVRES EN ANGLAIS EN RAPPORT AVEC «JEU D'ESPRIT»
Découvrez l'usage de
jeu d'esprit dans la sélection bibliographique suivante. Des livres en rapport avec
jeu d'esprit et de courts extraits de ceux-ci pour replacer dans son contexte son utilisation littéraire.
On the flyleaf is a dedicatory epistle to his "loving kinsman" dated from Islington, October? 26, 1775. On the blank versos of several of the leaves John Ardagh of Thurles [co. Tipperary?] has added more verse, ca. 1809-ca.1837.
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The Sound the Stars Make Rushing Through the Sky: The ...
If others you can muster up, To smoke a pipe and drink a cup, Bring them all most
freely on, And serve your faithful John Johnston. Wednesday Evening 21. Feb.
1827 A Metrical Jeu d'esprit, designed as an invitation to a whist party. Text from
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Jane Johnston Schoolcraft, Robert Dale Parker, 2007
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The Royal Dictionary, French and English, and English and ...
Jeu d'esprit, (f.alnnterie, chose d'esprit) a -witty Conceit, a piece of Wtt, a Wit.
iicifm. * Jeu de paroles, Jeu de mots, (Allusion, Equivoque) a Quibhie, a playing
upon Woris, a Pun, a Clencb. * Couvrir Ion Jeu, (cacher fa conduite, o* ses
desseins) ...
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Boyer's French Dictionary: Comprising All the Additions and ...
Jeu d'esprit, witty conceit, piece of wit, witticism. Jeu de paroles, jeu de mots,
quibble, pun, clinch. Jeu de théâtre, dumb-show, altitude, gesture. Jeux, games,
public games; plays. Les jeux, les ris, et les grâces, the sports, the «miles, and
the ...
Abel Boyer, William Bentley Fowle, 1827
Vos ergo favete, spectatores optimi : Afiertur utilis ct jucunda fabula. aata Th e
following Jeu d'esprit, as it appears to us, possesses too much merit to be lost. '
Hie allusion to some late Greek Sapphics, connected with the falling, or the fallen
, ...
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Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory
See school drama. jeu d'esprit (F 'play of the mind') An epigram (q.v.), witticism or
brief flight of fancy, urbanely expressed. Oscar Wilde was particularly adept at
them; as in these lines from A Woman ofNo Importance (1893): mrs allonby: They
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The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial ...
JEU D'ESPRIT *. [From the Morning Chronicle-] A S late Dumourier terror spread,
^ Mynheer and Frow retir'd to bed, > With the French army in their head ; J k Into a
broken slumber falling, Behold them tossing, tumbling, sprawling : Surpris'd, ...
George Cruikshank, Robert Cruikshank, 1802
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Spirit of the Public Journals
JEU D'ESPRIT*. AS late Dumourier terror spread, "J Mynheer and Frow retir'd to
bed, J- With the French army in their head ; J Into a broken slumber falling,
Behold them tossing, tumbling, sprawling : Surpriz'd, Mynheer began to feel His
back ...
Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott, 1799
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.
D.: Including a Journal of ...
[The following jeu d' esprit was written by Sir Joshua Reynolds to illustrate a
remark which he had made, that " Dr. Johnson considered Garrick as his property
, and would never suffer any one to praise or abuse him but himself." In the first of
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An Historical and Statistica Account of New South Wales, ...
would have been visited with a measure of punishment unexampled in the
history of Courts of Justice. Admirable logician ! Let us suppose, however, that
the writer of the remarks had also been the writer of the famous jeu d'esprit out of
which ...
10 ACTUALITÉS CONTENANT LE TERME «JEU D'ESPRIT»
Découvrez de quoi on parle dans les médias nationaux et internationaux et comment le terme
jeu d'esprit est employé dans le contexte des actualités suivantes.
'The Decagon House Murders' evokes Agatha Christie — in Japan …
The story proper begins almost as a light-hearted jeu d'esprit. Seven members of a university mystery club are going to spend a week on an ... «Washington Post, juil 15»
theartsdesk at the East Neuk Festival: Church strings, garden horns
... Sergey Akhunov's Erlkönig, more loosely based on the song in question, was a pleasing enough jeu d'esprit, but nothing as compared to the ... «The Arts Desk, juil 15»
Spectator competition: 'Well Spanked' paint (plus: here comes the …
Never was sophistication more grounded in the elemental. Little wonder that the ceiling then teases us with a jeu d'esprit of Fossilic Permafrost! «Spectator.co.uk, juin 15»
Music Academy Plays Beethoven's Ninth
... piece, which, by judicious selection and interpretation of Beethoven's sprawling opus, succeeds in being more than a mere jeu d'esprit. «Santa Barbara Independent, juin 15»
In Milan Kundera's first new novel in 15 years, the novelty begins to …
... Paris – a setting of less pressing interest than 1970s Prague – and specialising in the native forms: aperçu, causerie, essai, jeu d'esprit. «New Statesman, juin 15»
Ratmansky's Beauty Wakes Up
Ratmansky's Violente keeps her arms closer to her chest, and deploys them more softly, so that the pointing becomes a sort of jeu d'esprit. «The New Yorker, juin 15»
If a novel about failure fails, does that make it a success?
Is Toltz going to pull off this majestic, nutbags jeu d'esprit? Hell, no: this is a book about catastrophe. Like I say, I half wonder if that's Toltz's ... «Spectator.co.uk, juin 15»
Is that Harold Bloom? Susan Sontag? 'Muse' brims with literary barbs.
... a showcase for the poetry of the world-famous Ida Perkins, “Muse” is an amusing jeu d'esprit at first, but the nudge-nudge jokes go on much ... «Washington Post, juin 15»
Book: 'The Mystery of the Sintra Road' by Eça de Queiroz - Editor's …
It is pleasing to have this jeu d'esprit by one of Europe's finest writers available in English, in the idiomatically fluent style typical of Margaret Jull ... «Portuguese American Journal, juin 15»
Grayson Perry's new house is a dollop of architectural fun
Behind the two men, Perry, in male artist mode rather than female partygoer attire, is holding forth about his latest jeu d'esprit, a small, ... «New Statesman, mai 15»
