"Tresor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... qe ceste lettre verront, ou orrount, Gwy de Beauchamp, Comte de Warr. Saluz en Deu. Saluz nous aveir bayle e en la garde le Abbe e le Covent de Bordesleye, lesse a demorer a touz jours touz les Romaunces de sonz nomes; ceo est assaveyr, un volum, qe est appele Tresor. Un volum, en le quel est le premer livere de Lancelot, e un volum del Romaunce de Aygnes. Un Sauter de Romaunce. Un volum des Evangelies, e de Vie des Seins. Un volum, qe p'le des quatre principals Gestes de Charles, e de dooun, e de Meyace ...
— Bibliomania in the Middle Ages • Frederick Somner Merryweather
... took with them everything they had stolen. Napoleon, too, carried away his own personal tresor, but on seeing the baggage trains that impeded the army, he was (Thiers says) horror-struck. And yet with his experience of war he did not order all the superfluous vehicles to be burned, as he had done with those of a certain marshal when approaching ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... country, notably in the Asiatic continent, a fixity, throughout centuries, of forms that have once been introduced, which occasions a confusion between ancient and modern works of art, and renders investigations much more difficult. An old French traveler writes: "J'ai vu dans le tresor d'Ispahan les vetements de Tamerlan; ils ne different en rien de ceux d'aujourd'hui." Ethnology, the natural sciences, and last, but not least, the history of technical art are here set face ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 • Various
... [Footnote 1: Tresor de Numismatique et de Glyptique; ou, Recueil General de Medailles, Monnaies, Pierres Gravees, Sceaux, ...
— The International Weekly Miscellany, Volume I. No. 9. - Of Literature, Art, and Science, August 26, 1850 • Various
... donc vous reunissez Tous les arts, tous les gouts, tous les talents de plaire; Pompadour vous embellissez La Cour, le Parnasse et Cythere, Charme de tous les coeurs, tresor d'un seul mortel, Qu'un ...
— Women of Modern France - Woman In All Ages And In All Countries • Hugo P. Thieme |
