"Reve" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... M. Edouard Detaille's "Le Reve," which won him so much applause a few years ago. M. Detaille is an irreproachable realist, and may do what he likes in the way of the materially impossible with impunity. Sleeping soldiers, without a gaiter-button lacking, bivouacking on the ground amid stacked arms whose ...
— French Art - Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture • W. C. Brownell
... they came, what soever pretences they make, &c. We answer, the more is our wrong, that our pastor is kept from us by these mens means, and then reproach us for it when they have done. Yet have we not been wholy distitute of y^e means of salvation, as this man would make y^e world beleeve; for our reve^d Elder hath laboured diligently in dispencing the word of God unto us, before he came; and since hath taken equalle pains with him selfe in preaching the same; and, be it spoaken without ostentation, he is not inferriour to M^r. Lyford (& some of his betters) ...
— Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' • William Bradford
... nos souffrances, Nous gardons l'esperance D' voir le jour, De notr' retour De r'trouver nos parents, Nos femmes et nos enfants. Plein de joie, Oui ma foi, Mais pour arriver, A ce jour tant reve, Nous devons tous y mettre du coeur, C'est avec patience, Et plein de confiance, Que nous ...
— Golden Lads • Arthur Gleason and Helen Hayes Gleason
... in sweet vortex. Hence it was observ'd, The subtile matter, when in throat retir'd, Kept still its roulant quality, and oft Would mount in circling spires to pericranium Of she-philosopher, when in elbow chair, Deep and profound, would the grave matron reve, And learnedly pronounce (like great RENATUS[2]) With equal ...
— Ebrietatis Encomium - or, the Praise of Drunkenness • Boniface Oinophilus
... d'un egard pareil! S'il est quelque vrai sommeil Sans ni reve, ni reveil, Ouvrez-m'en la porte— Faites que l'immense Oubli Couvre, sous un dernier pli, Dans mon ...
— Peter Ibbetson • George du Marier et al
... sleep the process of trial-and-error may often result in highly constructive resolutions, as in what the French call reve utile. This is especially true in case the unadjusted cues are highly persistent psychic stimuli. Here, the excitation rises instead of seeming to wear down and can be followed in its working up, through trial-and-error, to the elaboration ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10
... l'insondable espace S'enveloppe de paix notre globe agitee: Homme, enveloppe ainsi tes jours, reve qui passe, Du calme ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... have no mouths nor no eyes. Our women have lips like rose-buttons; and eyes of lightning; the English have mouth wide like the toads, and their eyes are like "dreaming sheeps," as one of our very talented writers say, "mouton qui reve." It is excellent, that. I am not perceived so many English ladies tipsy as I expect; our General Pilon say they all drink brandy; this I have not seen very much. I was very surprise to see the people's hair of any colour but red, because all our travellers ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. XVII. No. 469. Saturday January 1, 1831 • Various
... tu veux, faisons un reve. Montons sur deux palefrois. Tu m'emmenes, je t'enleve. ...
— Views and Reviews - Essays in appreciation • William Ernest Henley |
