These, like many in Rabelais, are mere barbarisms unless generally adopted; in which case they become civilised and common currency. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Stokes); the allusion in Rabelais to the fate of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Dimnah” and its numerous offspring it is the “Ascetic with his Jar of oil and honey;” in Rabelais (i. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
How is it that in France so little is understood of the works of the ingenious Doctor Swift, who is called the Rabelais of England?. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
It was an opportunity for him to talk, and for me to hear, that old language of Rabelais, which is still in use in some Canadian provinces. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea] Reference
He was considered among the great composers by writers such as Rabelais (1552) and the chronicler Lodovico Guicciardini (1567). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-06-01] Reference
"Rabelais," and some actually mastered the story of the goose as a. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs] Reference
Words fall on the ear such as Rabelais speaks of as frozen and melting. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference
Urquhart's translation of "Rabelais," which I read, I daresay, as often as any mortal ever did. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs] Reference
That order hated letters; but Rabelais loved them. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
For such verisimilitude Rabelais cares not a straw. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
It is in Rabelais and in Villon that I studied French. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Indeed, he is cleanliness itself compared with Rabelais. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
But what a contrast, in point of decency, between Rabelais and. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Rabelais closes his story with jocose irreverent application of. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Swift, however, differs from Rabelais as well as resembles him. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
"Some," writes the immortal translator of Rabelais, in his preface. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Complete] Reference
The closest English analogue to Rabelais is undoubtedly Dean Swift. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Rabelais sinned against manners, more than he sinned against morals. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Petrarch and the wit of Rabelais sought her out, when she belonged to. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
A fragment in the manner of Rabelais, and the History of a Watchcoat. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Friends with a Fragment in the Manner of Rabelais to which are prefixed. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Rabelais is remarkable for whimsical disregard of even his own whimseys. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Renaissance, and Rabelais, drawing up a list of some remarkable books in. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
He possessed the Talents of a Lucian a Rabelais and a Cervantes and in his. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference
Sterne, in fact, has even less of the true philosophy of life than Rabelais. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Rabelais believed that he sacrificed to freedom, when he only worshipped fortune. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Voltaire put the matter with his usual felicity, -- Swift is Rabelais in his senses. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
He also signed himself Gavroche in the Rabelais, you know, which did not last very long. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"I cannot say I am," I laughed, "though we meet on common ground in admiration of Rabelais.". From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
Rabelais is simply monstrous in invention, Swift in invention submits himself loyally to law. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
We take now a somewhat long forward step, in going, as we do, at once from Froissart to Rabelais. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
This last instance of dying recklessness has been used by Rabelais as one of the jests of Panurge. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Now come Rabelais, boldly declared by Coleridge one of the great creative minds of literature; and. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
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