Pelham — Volume 02

Chapter XI

By Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton • Curated US English Learning Edition

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Here's a kind host, that makes the invitation, To your own cost to his fort bon collation.

--Wycherly's Gent.

Dancing Master.

Vous pouvez bien juger que je n'aurai pas grande peine a me consoler d'une chose dont je me suis deja console tant de fois.

--Lettres de Boileau.

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Pelham — Volume 02

Chapter XI

Reading 1/9 · 5 reading units · Lines 1–5

Line 1

Here's a kind host, that makes the invitation, To your own cost to his fort bon collation.

Line 2

--Wycherly's Gent.

Line 3

Dancing Master.

Line 4

Vous pouvez bien juger que je n'aurai pas grande peine a me consoler d'une chose dont je me suis deja console tant de fois.

Line 5

--Lettres de Boileau.

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adeterminerUS /ə/

used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one

From this reading Here's a kind host, that makes the invitation, To your own cost to his fort bon collation.

bien

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From this reading Vous pouvez bien juger que je n'aurai pas grande peine a me consoler d'une chose dont je me suis deja console tant de fois.

Boileau

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From this reading --Lettres de Boileau.

bon

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chose

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collation

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console

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consoler

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cost

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d'une

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Dancing

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From this reading Dancing Master.

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deja

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dont

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fois

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fort

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Gent

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From this reading --Wycherly's Gent.

grande

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Here's

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From this reading Here's a kind host, that makes the invitation, To your own cost to his fort bon collation.

hisdeterminerUS /hɪz/

belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned

From this reading Here's a kind host, that makes the invitation, To your own cost to his fort bon collation.

host

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From this reading Here's a kind host, that makes the invitation, To your own cost to his fort bon collation.

invitation

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juger

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kind

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From this reading Here's a kind host, that makes the invitation, To your own cost to his fort bon collation.

Lettres

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From this reading --Lettres de Boileau.

makes

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Master

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From this reading Dancing Master.

mepronounUS /miː/

the person speaking, as the object of a verb or preposition

From this reading Vous pouvez bien juger que je n'aurai pas grande peine a me consoler d'une chose dont je me suis deja console tant de fois.

n'aurai

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own

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From this reading Here's a kind host, that makes the invitation, To your own cost to his fort bon collation.

pas

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From this reading Vous pouvez bien juger que je n'aurai pas grande peine a me consoler d'une chose dont je me suis deja console tant de fois.

peine

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pouvez

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que

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suis

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From this reading Vous pouvez bien juger que je n'aurai pas grande peine a me consoler d'une chose dont je me suis deja console tant de fois.

tant

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From this reading Vous pouvez bien juger que je n'aurai pas grande peine a me consoler d'une chose dont je me suis deja console tant de fois.

thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/

used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt

From this reading Here's a kind host, that makes the invitation, To your own cost to his fort bon collation.

thedeterminerUS /ðə/

used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind

From this reading Here's a kind host, that makes the invitation, To your own cost to his fort bon collation.

ToparticleUS /tuː/

used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive

From this reading Here's a kind host, that makes the invitation, To your own cost to his fort bon collation.

Vous

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From this reading Vous pouvez bien juger que je n'aurai pas grande peine a me consoler d'une chose dont je me suis deja console tant de fois.

Wycherly's

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From this reading --Wycherly's Gent.

yourdeterminerUS /jɔːr/

belonging to the person or people being spoken to

From this reading Here's a kind host, that makes the invitation, To your own cost to his fort bon collation.