 Sage left the metropolis of taste, literature, and gaiety, with considerable regret. He did not enjoy his retirement long, being cut off by a severe illness, Nov. 17, 1747, in his eightieth year. He was interred at Boulogne, with the following epitaph...  The General Biographical Dictionary - Page 38by Alexander Chalmers - 1816Full view - About this book
 | Isaac Disraeli - Anecdotes - 1807 - 538 pages
...I wish every man of letters could apply to himself the concluding lines of the epitaph of Le Sage: Sous ce tombeau git LE SAGE abattu Par le ciseau de la Parque importune ; S'il ne fut pas ami de la fortune, II fut toujours ami de la vertu. Beneath this tomb LE SAGE has found repose,... | |
 | Alain René Le Sage - French drama - 1810 - 558 pages
...de son décès. On lui fitl'épitaphe suivante, que je rapporte faute d'autre : Sous ce tombeau gît LE SAGE abattu Par le ciseau de la Parque importune : S'il ne fut pas ami de la fortune, 11 fut toujours ami de la .vertu. Le lecteur trouvera dans la lettre suivante... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 538 pages
...cathedral of which one of his sons held a canonry: and although of an advanced age, Le Sage left the metropolis of taste, literature, and gaiety, with...abattu Par le ciseau de la Parque importune : S'il ne fut pas ami de la Fortune, II fut toujoura ami de la Vertu." His character is said to have been truly... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - Biography - 1816 - 536 pages
...men of genius, but he very gravely replaced it, when he found that they were of an inferior stamp. taste, literature, and gaiety, with considerable regret....abattu Par le ciseau de la Parque importune : S'il ne fut pas ami de la Fortune, II fut toujours ami de la Vertu." His character is said to have been truly... | |
 | Jean Baptiste François Delaporte - Brittany (France) - 1819 - 630 pages
...chanoine à Boulogne ; il y mourut en 1747. On fit pour lui Pépitaphe suivante : Sous ce tombeau, gît Le Sage, abattu Par le ciseau de la parque importune ; S'il ne fut pas ami de la fortune , II fut touiours ami de la vertu. NICOLAS TRAVERS. Nicolas Travers naquit... | |
 | Alain René Le Sage - Culture - 1820 - 956 pages
...cathedral of which one of his sons held a canonry : and although of an advanced age, Le Sage left the metropolis of taste, literature, and gaiety, with...long, being cut off by a severe illness, Nov. 17, I747, in his eightieth year. He was interred at Boulogne, with the following epitaph : Sous ce tombeau... | |
 | Alain René Le Sage - 1824 - 334 pages
...advanced age, Le Sage left the metropolis of taste, literature, and gaiety, with considerable regret. Ke did not enjoy his retirement long, being cut off by...Sage, abattu Par le ciseau de la Parque importune : J. S'il ne fut pas ami de la Fortune, < • II fut toujours ami de la Vertu. His character is said... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - Culture in literature - 1824 - 538 pages
...wish, however, that every man of letters could apply to himself the epitaph of this delightful writer : Sous ce tombeau git LE SAGE abattu Par le ciseau de la Parque importune ; S Ml ne fnt pas ami de la fortune, II fut toujours ami de la vertu. Many years after this article... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - Novelists, English - 1825 - 554 pages
...inquiries, which could only be satisfied by the inconvenient medium of his hearingtrumpet. ' Sous ce tombeau Le Sage abattu, Par le ciseau de la Parque importune. S'il ne fut pas ami de la Fortune, II fut toujours ami de la Vertu. Le Sage, that — differing in that particular... | |
 | Alain René Le Sage - French fiction - 1831 - 980 pages
...cathedral of which one of his sons held a canonry : and although of an advanced age, Le Sage left the metropolis of taste, literature, and gaiety, with...following epitaph : Sous ce tombeau git Le Sage, abattu Far le ciseau de la Parque importune : S'il ne fut pas ami de la Fortune, H fut toujours ami de la... | |
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