Fouque in a sentence

Smoked my pipe of strong canaster, Sipped my fifteenth jug of beer; Gazed upon the glancing river, Gazed upon the tranquil pool, Whence the silver-voiced Undine, When the nights were calm and cool, As the Baron Fouque tells us, Rose from out her shelly grot, Casting glamour o'er the waters, Witching that enchanted spot.

The two men who had been by his side at the head of the procession, Jahn, the brave Turner, and the chivalrous La Motte Fouque, now ascended the balcony.

An electric shock, as it were, pervaded the whole assembly; not an eye remained dry, not a heart was unmoved; even Schleiermacher's voice was tremulous when he uttered his "Amen!" They departed from the church to the Potsdam gate, and along the road leading to Potsdam, continuing their march on the following day, after being joined by the company which La Motte Fouque had recruited in that city.

Yes, Fouque is among us!

Fouque," shouted Jahn, in his stentorian voice; "do you not hear the requests of our bold youths?

La Motte Fouque composed this poem on the march from Potsdam to Breslau, whither he conducted the first companies of volunteers.

There were Majors von Lutzow and Petersdorf, who had been invited to the honor of an audience which had been conferred even upon some of the volunteers, among them upon Baron la Motte Fouque and Theodore Korner; and Alexander told them with charming enthusiasm of his sympathy for the heroic Prussian nation, and of his admiration of its glorious self-denial.

To Fouque, from Hitzig We have done, then, the desperate deed: there is Schlemihl's story which we were to preserve to ourselves as our own secret, and lo!

Thanks, then, dear Fouque, heartfelt thanks, for the launching of the first edition, and with our friends, receive my wishes for the prosperity of the second.

Everybody attributed it to Lamotte Fouque, on whose literary shoulders, indeed, Adelbert von Chamisso placed the burden of its responsibilities.

To you, Edward, to you only, my nearest, dearest friend-my better self, from whom I can hide no secret,-to you I commit them; to you only, and of course to Fouque, who, like yourself, is rooted in my soul-but to him as a friend alone, and not as a poet.

Another novel of Fouque. {112} Australia.

From the same source Pope drew the airy tenants of Belinda's dressing-room, in his charming "Rape of the Lock;" and La Motte Fouque, the beautiful and capricious water-nymph, Undine, around whom he has thrown more grace and loveliness, and for whose imaginary woes he has excited more sympathy, than ever were bestowed on a supernatural being.

Accordingly, when, a few moments after, it knocked at the door with light, light finger, (see De la Motte Fouque,) I drawled, "Come in," and the Queen of Sheba stood before me, clad in purple and fine linen, with rings on her fingers and bells on her toes.

Il suffirait, pour justifier, d'après le plan de l'auteur, ce rattachement, de donner à Thérèse ou à Laurent une parenté quelconque avec les descendants névrosés d'Adélaïde Fouque.

Elle s'ouvre par ce portrait de l'aïeule, de l'ancêtre, Adélaïde Fouque, de qui descendra cette race complexe des Rougon et des Macquart.

Cette Adélaïde Fouque épouse un paysan des Basses-Alpes, nommé Rougon, son domestique, qui meurt bientôt en lui laissant un fils.

Adélaïde Fouque, mariée à Pierre Rougon, puis devenue maîtresse de «ce gueux de Macquart», était atteinte d'aliénation mentale.

Sans descendre d'Adélaïde Fouque, beaucoup de familles et d'individus isolés ressemblent à tous ces produits de la folle des Tulettes.

It might have been the work of an imitator at once of de la Motte Fouque, and the old British romancers.