Passion and Criminality in France: A Legal and Literary Study |
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accused admiration adultery Alfred de Musset Assize Court Bouches-du-Rhône Byron character Chateaubriand child commit suicide Corneille craving crimes of passion criminal dangerous death declared despair dramas Dumas eyes fatal father feel forgive forsaken George Sand give Goethe grief guilty happy heart Hermione heroes honour husband idea imagination imitation influence inspire jealous jealousy Jean Jacques Rousseau Jules Lemaître kill Lamartine less letter literary Literature live lover marriage married woman melancholy mind mistress Molière moral morbid mother murder Musset nature nervous never Novelists Novels parents Paris Phèdre play pleasure poetry poets poison possessed punishment Racine reason revenge revolver romantic Rousseau says seduced sensibility sensual sentiments society sophistries soul Stage Stendhal suffer tells theatre Théophile Gautier thought tion Tragedy unfaithful unhappy vengeance victim Victor Hugo violent virtue vitriol Werther wife wife's wish wives women writes wrote young girl
Popular passages
Page 606 - Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness ; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Page 198 - Tu saches ma faiblesse et mes autres amours. Une femme d'honneur peut avouer sans honte Ces surprises des sens que la raison surmonte ; Ce n'est qu'en ces assauts qu'éclate la vertu, Et l'on doute d'un cœur qui n'a point combattu.
Page 582 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry ; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 194 - To the very moment that he bade me tell it; Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field, Of hair-breadth 'scapes i...
Page 194 - twas wondrous pitiful : She wish'd she had not heard it ; yet she wish'd That Heaven had made her such a man : she thank'd me ; And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake : She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd ; And I loved her that she did pity them.
Page 89 - Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her.
Page 194 - Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels...
Page 219 - Je n'ai plus qu'une grâce à demander ensuite : Souffre que mes enfants accompagnent ma fuite; Que je t'admire encore en chacun de leurs traits. Que je t'aime et te baise en ces petits portraits; Et que leur cher objet, entretenant ma flamme, Te présente à mes yeux aussi bien qu'à mon âme.
Page 215 - Une lutte éternelle en tout temps, en tout lieu, Se livre sur la terre, en présence de Dieu, Entre la bonté d'Homme et la ruse de Femme, Car la femme est un être impur de corps et d'âme.
Page 636 - ... state drifted on. Then Pallant— and the raw House winced at the torture of his voice —rose. It was a twenty-line question, studded with legal technicalities. The gist of it was that he wished to know whether the appropriate Minister was aware that there had been a grave miscarriage of justice on such and such a date, at such and such a place, before such and such justices of the peace, in regard to a case which arose I heard one desperate, weary 'damn!' float up from the pit of that torment....