I remember well, that when I went to the echo at Pont-Charenton, there was an old Parisian, that took it to be the work of spirits, and of good spirits. For... Essay on Irish Bulls - Page 25by Richard Lovell Edgeworth, Maria Edgeworth - 1803 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
| David Josiah Brewer - English literature - 1902 - 448 pages
...echo of Paddy Blake, which has long been the admiration of the world, is not a prodigy unique in its kind; it can be matched by one recorded in the immortal...will not deliver back the devil's name, but will say Va-t-en. ' " The Parisian echo is surely superior to the Hibernian ! Paddy Blake's simply understood... | |
| Edwin Reed - 1902 - 462 pages
...word. I remember well that when I went to the echo at Pont-Charenton, there was an old Parisian who took it to be the work of spirits, and of good spirits....deliver back the devil's name, but will say, va t'en ; ' which is as much in Freuch as apage, or ' avoid him.' " 280 STAR-CHAMBER From Shake-speare "Shallow.... | |
| Edwin Reed - 1902 - 478 pages
...word. I remember well that when I went to the echo at Pont-Charenton, there was an old Parisian who took it to be the work of spirits, and of good spirits....not deliver back the devil's name, but will say, va fen ; ' which is as much in French as apage, or ' avoid him.' " From Shake-speare 280 STAB-CHAMBER... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1909 - 146 pages
...Bacon : "I remember well that when I went to the echo at Pont-Chaventon there was an old Priscian who took it to be the work of spirits, and of good spirits....deliver back the devil's name, but will say, va t'en, which is as much in French as apage or avoid." — Natural History. Per. This is strange :* your father's... | |
| Catherine Drinker Bowen - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 294 pages
...called out, his voice returned "thirteen several times," and how an old Parisian took it to be the work of good spirits. "For (said he) call Satan and the...deliver back the devil's name, but will say va t'en [get thee hence]." There is to these recollections a cheerful, congenial note. Young Francis was among... | |
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