réfléchie. See note on p

1. 1. de me plaindre, depending on je me prenais en grand mépris,- E.B. 123, 196(3).

1. 2. // ne s'était laissé deviner... 'ha had only once inadvertently betrayed himself,' see pp. 36, 37.

L 12. elle élève notre profession... "The poem of human life is opened before us, and M. de Vigny does .but chaunt from it, in a voice of subdued sadness, a few strains telling of obscure wisdom and unre-

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warded virtue; of those antique characters which, without self-glorification or hope of being appreciated, 'carry out,' as he expresses it, 'the sentiment of duty to its extremest consequences,' and whom he avers, as a matter of personal experience, that he has never met with in any walk of life but the profession of arms." Mill's Essay.

1. 20. fe lui vis écrire, the dative lui because there is an accusative governed by écrire, i.e. the words that follow, E.B. n6.