THE FRENCH READER'S GUIDE; OR, MISCELLANEOUS SELECTIONS IN Prose and Verse FROM THE BEST FRENCH AUTHORS OF THE TWO LAST CENTURIES, AND FROM THE MOST DISTINGUISHED WRITERS OF THE PRESENT DAY; With Explanatory Notes Upon the more difficult passages and idiomatic expressions; PREPARED For the assistance of public Education and private Study, as well as for the gratification BY M. DE LA CLAVERIE, Member of the Grammatical and Literary Society of Paris, Professor of the French and Italian "Non auctores modò, sed etiam partes auctoris elegeris."-QUINTILIAN. "Indocti discant, et ament meminisse periti."-HENAULT. "On s'accoutume à bien parler, en lisant souvent ceux qui ont bien écrit "-VOLTAIRE. IN TWO PARTS. LONDON: SMITH, ELDER AND CO. CORNHILL; LIVERPOOL, WILLIAM GRAPEL. MDCCCXXXV. |