‘Tell me,’ he said, in a low voice, some moments later. The expert he praises, and the timid cheers.

Prompt to direct th'unskilful still appears, Like a hoarse mastiff through the storm he cries. Wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers Surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angatįrom the heart of this fountain of delights It was more than he had ever had, and more than he had ever really hoped for so early in his career so why was there something as yet undefined beneath his exultation, the aliquid amari of his schooldays? T was far more than he had ever owned before, at sea, and he surveyed it with glowing complacency, looking with particular delight at the handsomely mounted inward-sloping windows, all as bright as glass could very well be, seven sets of panes in a noble sweep quite furnishing the room. It seems (but critics are divided on this) that Cyrano in his play had made use of an idea given to him by Molière himself. ‘Je reprends mon bien où je le trouve’ (I recover my property wherever I find it) was Molière’s supposed answer to those that accused him of having stolen a scene from Cyrano de Bergerac’s comedy Le Pédant joué (1654) for his own play Les Fourberies de Scapin (1671). 'I've taken my riches from anywhere I found them'. Thank you Barbara Baker, Anthony Gary Brown, Norm Crandles, Nancy Kaminski, Linda Laflamme, Charles Munoz, Oliver Mundy, Keith Peterson, Adam Quinan, Don Seltzer, Jane Skinner, Bruce Trinque, Kerry Webb, and Susan Wenger. October 2014: I have at long last added the findings sent in by lissuns over the years, and this time I can particularize. Needless to say, I'll be grateful for any additions and corrections. My thanks to all the lissuns, so many of them 'that it were insidious to particularize', who in their posts over the long life of the Gunroom have pointed out several of the quotations listed here. Bruce Trinque has provided an excellent synoptic table of the pagination of all UK and US editions.įor the quotations in languages other than English, I have relied considerably on Anthony Gary Brown's A Guide for the Perplexed (link is external). Page numbers are those of the HarperCollins edition. A list of (nearly) all the literary and non-literary quotations, pre-quotations, allusions, echoes, and borrowings to be found in Patrick O'Brian's 'Canon'.

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