L'avare, comédie, with intr., notes, and indices by L.M. Moriarty |
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Page ix
... servants and horses , though , it is true , he starves them . Again , he prizes his gold above children and family , and yet he is in love , and that too with a poor girl . This touch of nature helps to increase the ridicule and ...
... servants and horses , though , it is true , he starves them . Again , he prizes his gold above children and family , and yet he is in love , and that too with a poor girl . This touch of nature helps to increase the ridicule and ...
Page xi
... servants hate and despise him ; he is the gibe of his neighbours . " With what vigour , " says Geoffroy , " with what a faithful brush Molière depicts his miser - isolating himself from his family - seeing enemies in his children , his ...
... servants hate and despise him ; he is the gibe of his neighbours . " With what vigour , " says Geoffroy , " with what a faithful brush Molière depicts his miser - isolating himself from his family - seeing enemies in his children , his ...
Page xii
... servant abstracts ; so also , meeting the young man , he charges him with the theft , giving rise to an amusing scene where the two are at cross purposes.1 On the other hand , the relations generally between Harpagon and his son Cléante ...
... servant abstracts ; so also , meeting the young man , he charges him with the theft , giving rise to an amusing scene where the two are at cross purposes.1 On the other hand , the relations generally between Harpagon and his son Cléante ...
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... servant bitter and impertinent . At last the valet retires , after emptying his pockets and showing all his hands . The miser is surprised in a soliloquy by his children . At first he fancies they must have overheard him ; then , after ...
... servant bitter and impertinent . At last the valet retires , after emptying his pockets and showing all his hands . The miser is surprised in a soliloquy by his children . At first he fancies they must have overheard him ; then , after ...
Page 37
... servants , are kept at starvation point , the naïf Jacques is led on to give his master an account of what his neighbours think and say of him . As a reward for his frankness he gets a good thrashing . Then follows an amusing piece of ...
... servants , are kept at starvation point , the naïf Jacques is led on to give his master an account of what his neighbours think and say of him . As a reward for his frankness he gets a good thrashing . Then follows an amusing piece of ...
Common terms and phrases
affaire amour argent Aulularia Avare avarice avez belle-mère blé en herbe Brindavoine called cassette children chose ciel Clé commissaire common commonly consentement d'Harpagon dative daughter denier Dieu dire dix mille écus donner Edited ÉLISE employed enfans English est-ce êtes Euclio euphemism father father's fille fils first Flèche followed French Frosine generally give good Greek Harpagon hauts-de-chausses hence homme impertinent infinitive interest j'ai j'en jeu de l'oie keep kind know knows nothing l'argent language Latin lesina LINE little love m'en madame MAITRE maître Jacques maître Simon make Mariane meaning means MERLUCHE Molière Molière's money monsieur name Notice noun orges originally PAGE LINE parler pendard père personne phrase pistoles play Preparation probably pronoun raison same says seigneur Anselme sense sera seventeenth century subjunctive take Tartuffe thing time used Valère verb veux voilà vois word ΙΟ
Popular passages
Page 66 - Ah ! c'est moi ! Mon esprit est troublé, et j'ignore où je suis, qui je suis, et ce que je fais. Hélas ! mon pauvre argent ! mon pauvre argent ! mon cher ami ! on m'a privé de toi ; et, puisque tu m'es enlevé, j'ai perdu mon support, ma consolation, ma joie : tout est fini pour moi, et je n'ai plus que faire au monde.
Page 44 - Vous êtes la fable et la risée de tout le monde; et jamais on ne parle de vous que sous les noms d'avare, de ladre, de vilain et de fesse-mathieu.
Page 67 - Hélas! mon pauvre argent, mon pauvre argent, mon cher ami! on m'a privé de toi; et puisque tu m'es enlevé, j'ai perdu mon support, ma consolation, ma joie; tout est fini pour moi, et je n'ai plus que faire au monde: sans toi, il m'est impossible de vivre. C'en est fait, je n'en puis plus; je me meurs, je suis mort, je suis enterré.
Page 67 - Hé ! de quoi est-ce qu'on parle là ? de celui qui m'a dérobé? Quel bruit fait-on là-haut ? est-ce mon voleur qui y est ? De grâce si l'on sait des nouvelles de mon voleur, je supplie que l'on m'en dise.
Page 67 - Sans toi, il m'est impossible de vivre. C'en est fait ; je n'en puis plus, je me meurs ; je suis mort, je suis enterré. N'y at-il personne qui veuille me ressusciter, en me rendant mon cher argent, ou en m'apprenant qui l'a pris? Hé! que dites-vous? Ce n'est personne.
Page 40 - Que diable, toujours de l'argent! Il semble qu'ils n'aient autre chose à dire : « De l'argent, de l'argent, de l'argent ». Ah ! ils n'ont que ce mot à la bouche : « De l'argent !
Page 44 - Monsieur, puisque vous le voulez, je vous dirai franchement qu'on se moque partout de vous, qu'on nous jette de tous côtés cent brocards à votre sujet, et que l'on n'est point plus ravi que de vous tenir au cul et aux chausses, et de faire sans cesse des contes de votre lésine.
Page 40 - Ah ! ils n'ont que ce mot à la bouche, de l'argent! toujours parler d'argent! Voilà leur épée de chevet, de l'argent!
Page 115 - Nescio : nil video : caecus eo, atque equidem, quo eam, aut ubi sim, aut qui sim, Nequeo cum animo certum investigare.