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Cлово "EVER"
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Часть текста: absence pendant cet hiver (si elle a lieu, ce que je ne veux pas encore admettre) attristera beaucoup de personnes. Je vous remercie infiniment pour votre billet et pour tous les details que vous me donnez de l'arrangement de votre chambre; ils m'aideront a me representer plus vivement ce qui me vient bien souvent a l'esprit... J'espere que vous aurez la bonte de me communiquer votre decision finale, chose bien importante pour beaucoup de personnes et sous beaucoup de rapports. Je vous souhaite de tout mon coeur les meilleures dispositions et inspirations pour l'ouvrage que vous vous etes propose; je vous souhaite surtout une bonne sante, beaucoup de tranquillite et d'activite. Quant a moi, j'ai mene depuis votre depart 2 une vie bien calme; j'ai beaucoup travaille et avec assez de fruit; le petit ecrit 3 que je vous envoie avec Salavoy avait ete compose dans l'intention de servir de texte a des causeries, qui auraient du avoir lieu cet hiver... vous le trouverez bien decousu. J'espere que que { Так в подлиннике . } vous accomplirez vos projets d'etude pendant cet ete, en general tous vos projets (ne negligez pas d'aller prendre des bains de mer, si les medecins vous le conseillent). Si vous ne revenez pas cet hiver en Russie, j'espere avoir le plaisir de vous rencontrer quelque part en Europe l'annee prochaine, car j'ai l'intention d'y...
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Часть текста: of a Russian, in connection with this issue of Mr. Ralston’s excellent translation of Krilof’s fables, as they prove that English readers are beginning to feel an interest in the literature of his country, and in the national life and character which they have hitherto only contemplated from a political point о view. And Krilof certainly deserves all the attention thus bestowed upon him. He is the only original fabulist who has appeared since La Fontaine; and though he does not, perhaps, equal the exquisite grace of the inimitable Frenchman, though he has fewer sly strokes of wit, less cunning simplicity in telling a story, he has, on the other hand, more originality of invention. His observant good sense penetrates to the roots of things, and he possesses a genuine kind of phlegmatic humour which betrays the Oriental element in Slavonic nature. In his birth and all the circumstances of his life Krilof was as Russian as possible: he was essentially national in his ways of thinking, feeling, and writing; and it may be maintained without exaggeration that a foreigner who has carefully studied Krilof’s fables will have a better idea of the Russian national character than if he had read through all the travels and essays that attempt to describe it. Russian children learn Krilof by heart as French ones do La Fontaine, without entering into all the wisdom of his teaching, but in later life they return to him with double profit. Like La Fontaine, but to a still greater degree, Krilof has supplied the public conscience with a number of precepts and adages and sayings which have become proverbial even in the mouth of unlettered peasants; no one is oftener quoted than he, and, like the Bible and Shakespeare in England, those who quote him have often no idea of their obligation — proof positive that his work has been completely absorbed into the national popular life from which it sprung. The present day offers no higher...