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... whole passages . If Urquhart sins in this respect , much more does Motteux . In the translation of the verses of Raminagrobis , I have to thank Mr Joseph Knight , who has permitted me to use the admirably correct and dexterous ...
... whole passages . If Urquhart sins in this respect , much more does Motteux . In the translation of the verses of Raminagrobis , I have to thank Mr Joseph Knight , who has permitted me to use the admirably correct and dexterous ...
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... whole forest . Mounted on her , Gargantua was re- ceived with great admiration by the Parisians , who , says Rabelais , are more easily drawn together by a fiddler or a mule with bells than by an evangelical preacher — a pecu- liarity ...
... whole forest . Mounted on her , Gargantua was re- ceived with great admiration by the Parisians , who , says Rabelais , are more easily drawn together by a fiddler or a mule with bells than by an evangelical preacher — a pecu- liarity ...
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... whole shovelfuls . Immediately after that he drank a horrific draught of white wine for the ease of his kidneys . When that was done , he ate according to the season meat agreeable to his appetite , and then left off eating when he was ...
... whole shovelfuls . Immediately after that he drank a horrific draught of white wine for the ease of his kidneys . When that was done , he ate according to the season meat agreeable to his appetite , and then left off eating when he was ...
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... recapitulate , after the manner of the Pythagoreans , that which he had read , seen , learned , done , and understood in the whole course of that day . Then prayed they unto God the Creator , fall- ing 28 READINGS FROM RABELAIS .
... recapitulate , after the manner of the Pythagoreans , that which he had read , seen , learned , done , and understood in the whole course of that day . Then prayed they unto God the Creator , fall- ing 28 READINGS FROM RABELAIS .
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... for Julian Augustus with his whole host died there for thirst , as they say . " " We have already , " said they , " given order for that . In the Syrian Sea you have nine thousand and fourteen great ships laden with GARGANTUA . 4I.
... for Julian Augustus with his whole host died there for thirst , as they say . " " We have already , " said they , " given order for that . In the Syrian Sea you have nine thousand and fourteen great ships laden with GARGANTUA . 4I.
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ABBEY OF THELEMA according Æneid Æsop ancient answered Panurge asked Bacbuc bagpipe Basché better birds Bottle bous breviary Bridoye Buzançay called Carpalim catchpole Chinon Chitterlings Cicero colours cried Panurge decretals devils diable dice Dieu divine doth dreams drink Edituus Epistemon Eudemon fair fast father fear fire fool Friar John Furred Cats Gargantua gentlemen GEORGE ELIOT give gold Grippeminaud hand hath head heart heaven herb holy Homenas honest honour hypocras island joyous Julius Cæsar Jupiter king labour ladies Lantern lardons let us go Lord marry master monk never noble oracle Oudart Panta Pantagruel Pantagruelion philosopher Phrygia physician Picrochole Plato Ponocrates Pope pray quoth Panurge Rabelais Rabelais Club replied seen ships sing soul tell thee things thither thou told tongue took unto virtue whereof wife wine words
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Page 21 - ... they had done their minds. All their play was but in liberty, for they left off when they pleased, and that was commonly when they did sweat over all their body, or were otherwise weary. Then were they very well wiped and rubbed, shifted their shirts, and walking soberly, went to see if dinner was ready.
Page 69 - ... the nature of man to long after things forbidden, and to desire what is denied us. By this liberty they entered into a very laudable emulation, to do all of them what they saw did please one. If any of the gallants or ladies should say, Let us drink, they would all drink. If any one of them said, Let us play, they all played.
Page 59 - ... said Gargantua, the greatest loss of time that I know is to count the hours. What good comes of it? Nor can there be any greater dotage in the world than for one to guide and direct his courses by the sound of a bell, and not by his own judgment and discretion.
Page 29 - They went likewise to see the drawing of metals, or the casting of great ordnance ; how the lapidaries did work, as also the goldsmiths and cutters of precious stones.