Aurora sat with that indifference Which piques a preux chevalier--as it ought: Of all offences that 's the worst offence, Which seems to hint you are not worth a thought.
This being the case, may show us what Fame is: For out of these three 'preux Chevaliers,' how Many of common readers give a guess That such existed?
And a third parallel, between Saint-Preux and Bradley Headstone, need not be quite farcical.
Something still was wanting to the beautiful perfection of his character; for courtesy to the ladies, and bravery and skill in the field, did not of themselves constitute the preux chevalier.
Some of these knights were preux chevaliers indeed.
But here our panegyric must cease; for no preux knight would, like Francis, have pledged his solemn word to observe a treaty, and immediately afterwards have violated it.
St Preux escorts his old love to the Meillerie, and it was with his description of this that Rousseau unrolled the full charm of mountain scenery, and opened the eyes of his readers to see it.
St Preux says: 'The nearer I drew to Switzerland, the greater were my emotions.
Such expressions as these of St Preux were unheard of at that time: 'I shall do my best to be free quickly, and able to wander at my ease in the wild places that to my mind make the charm of this country.
At the present time the word is only used in the phrase preux chevalier.
East of Monchy-le-Preux the Germans after a heavy bombardment of British positions made an attack in force that was entirely successful in gaining the first-line defenses.
During the night General Haig's troops improved their positions between Monchy-le-Preux and the Scarpe River, repulsing a feeble German attack on the new positions.
The loss to the Germans of Monchy-le-Preux was regarded by them as a serious matter, and they were prepared to sacrifice any number of men to retake it.
We can, however, gather enough from it to justify us in concluding that Jean Clouet's craftsmanship was of a more elaborate nature than that which may be observed in the portraits of the Preux de-Marignan.
Anne de Montmorency at various stages of his life is presented in a series of French drawings, dating from 1514, as a Preux de Marignan, down to his old age.
This collection is supposed to have been copied by Madame de Berry, wife of Arthur de Gouffier, one of the Preux de Marignan.
To many much of the spell of Switzerland comes from the magic of Rousseau's love for the fair and facile deserter and from the immortal romance in which as Saint-Preux and Julie their idealized amour lived again.
It does not matter to me that we were not the only preux chevaliers of that period, ready to do battle for or against the charms of a woman whose remains had crumbled to dust by then.
Blanc's allusion to other "preux chevaliers" aimed particularly at M.
The young Pescara seems also to have profited by the golden opportunities offered him of becoming something better than a mere preux chevalier.
I left the Rue des Moineaux, where this girl lodged, as much ashamed as Saint Preux left the house in which he had become intoxicated, and when I wrote his story I well remembered my own.
FROM JULIE TO SAINT PREUX All is changed, my dear friend; let us suffer the change without a murmur.
What St. Preux is to Heloise, the book is to the reader.
St. Preux the lie, begs forgiveness on his knees, and in the precise words which I have just used.
August, it was learnt that the Canadians had captured Monchy le Preux and were still going well.
Here was her preux chevalier of a brother turned merchant, trader!
Moreover, I myself, will be her preux chevalier, sixty and gouty though I be.
Adopted by the Church, it became the sacrament of the preux chevalier who swore that everywhere and always he would be the champion of women, of justice and of right.
Poetry was the attribute of his order as joy was the parure of the preux chevalier.
She chose René as her preux chevalier, and her place was at the head of the troops under his orders.
René d’Anjou, King and Duke, the preux chevalier of all the beautiful women in his dominions, did not fail to excite feelings of admiration and of a profounder passion in the pulsating hearts of the amorous women and girls of Genoa.
Le Roy, La Pucelle, et le preux Cavalier”--that was the toast.
Imagine la divine JULIE tripping up and down the artificial terraces of the Isola Bella, among flower pots and statues, and colonnades and grottos; and St. Preux sighing towards her, from some trim fantastic wilderness in the Isola Madre!
St. Preux I thought, as I passed under the rock of the Meillerie.
He opened one and then another, gloating over them all, but in the end he chose the Bayard and for hours lost himself among the high deeds of the Preux Chevalier and his faithful friends (among whom, by the way, there was a Ste.
Oh yes, I think there are preux chevaliers nowadays--only perhaps they don't go about things in quite the same fashion.
Julie is the daughter of a nobleman, St. Preux is a poor tutor, a plebeian.
From St. Preux to Werther the advance is equally great In the former there was, as his name implies, some reminiscence of the ideal knight.
I see that you're just the best and bravest man I know--preux chevalier, as I once called you.
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