_And -- "sixth and lastly" -- should confession be made that in the present rendering a purely arbitrary title has been assigned this little book; and chiefly for commercial reasons, since the word "dizain" has been adjudged both untranslatable and, in its pristine form, repellantly outre. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
And -- "sixth and lastly" -- should confession be made that in the present rendering a purely arbitrary title has been assigned this little book; chiefly for commercial reasons, since the word "dizain" has been adjudged both untranslatable and, in its pristine form, repellantly ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
To this insinuation Balzac gave no credence; he naturally found it easy to believe in one more enthusiastic foreign admirer, and he was seriously troubled by the fact that the first dizain of the "Contes Drolatiques," which certainly would not satisfy his correspondent's views on the lofty mission of womanhood, was likely to appear shortly. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
A fire broke out at the printing office in the Rue du Pot-de-Fer, and burnt the first hundred and sixty pages of the third dizain of the "Contes Drolatiques," as well as five hundred volumes of the first and second dizain, which had cost him four francs each. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
However, whether she did not read the first dizain of the "Contes," which appeared in ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Mondes_ a scathing, anonymous criticism of the first dizain of the ❋ Unknown (N/A)
He thus lost 3,500 francs, and to add to the calamity, did not receive the sum of 6,000 francs which in the ordinary course of events would have been due to him at the end of the year, when but for this disaster he would have handed over the third dizain to Werdet and an associate. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Montbrison afforded me the main matter of the sixth and seventh stories; and that, moreover, I once journeyed to Caer Idion and talked for some two hours with Richard Holland (whom I found a very old and garrulous and cheery person), and got of him the matter of the eighth tale in this dizain, together with much information as concerns the sixth and the seventh. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
Now when this terrible dizain was completed the lord of the seven madnesses laid fire to a wisp of straw, and he cast it to the winds, saying that thus should the anger of Miramon Lluagor pass over the land. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
"That half-brother of mine, who is lord of the tenth kind of sleeping, would nicely round off this dizain," says Miramon, scratching his chin, ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
So he made of it the thesis for a dizain of beautiful happenings that are almost flawless in their verbal beauty. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
Gallantry: an eighteenth century dizain in ten comedies, with an after-piece. ❋ Unknown (1914)
You will say also that Messire de Montbrison afforded me the main matter of the sixth and seventh stories, and many of the songs which this book contains; and that, moreover, I once journeyed to Caer Idion and talked for some two hours with Richard Holland (whom I found a very old and garrulous and cheery person), and got of him the matter of the eighth tale in this dizain, together with much information as concerns the sixth and the seventh. ❋ James Branch Cabell (1918)
£n leur payant un dizain, toutefois Tel que le votrcj qui vaut mieux mille foisj/ ❋ Unknown (1812)
That [party] was [freakin] [dizain] man! ❋ Angela Mueller (2008)
