Poète tragique

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Émile-Paul Frères, 1921 - Tragedy - 396 pages
 

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Page 366 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Page 378 - I was not much afeard ; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike.
Page 378 - Sour-eyed disdain, and discord, shall bestrew The union of your bed with weeds so loathly That you shall hate it both : therefore, take heed, As Hymen's lamps shall light you.
Page 366 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...
Page 128 - ... sa prudence est un défi que les passions bravent et accablent ; les grandes âmes sont plus roulées par leur fatalité intérieure que les feuilles par le vent d'automne...
Page 374 - un pauvre comédien, qui fait le beau, qui s'agite une heure sur la scène et puis qu'on n'entend plus. C'est un conte...
Page 378 - The crown imperial: lilies of all kinds, (The flower-de-luce being one.) O, these I lack, To make you garlands of) and my sweet friend, To strew him o'er, and o'er. What? like a corse? No, like a bank, for love to lie, and play on: Not like a corse: or if: not to be buried, But quick, and in mine arms.
Page 310 - ... cruelle : il s'y résigne plus qu'il ne la choisit ; il a le sentiment de succomber à une tentation : car enfin, immoler l'œuvre à la vie, fût-ce...
Page 374 - Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon thé stage And then is heard no more. It is a taie Told by an idiot, full of Sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
Page 9 - Le rêve emporte tout; et la suprême grandeur de l'esprit consiste à se voir rêver soi-même. Après en avoir 11 désespéré, la suprême beauté est d'en sourire.

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