Letters Describing the Character and Customs of the English and French Nations: With a Curious Essay on Travelling : and a Criticism on Boileau's Description of Paris |
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Page 266 - Tout conspire à la fois à troubler mon repos , Et je me plains ici du moindre de mes maux ; Car à peine les coqs , commençant leur ramage, Auront de cris aigus frappé le voisinage, Qu'un affreux serrurier, laborieux...
Page 284 - Et partout des passants enchaînant les brigades Au milieu de la paix font voir les barricades ' ; On n'entend que des cris poussés confusément : Dieu pour s'y faire ouïr tonnerait vainement.
Page 300 - Tremblant & demi mort , je me levé à ce bruit , Et fouvent fans pourpoint je cours toute la nuit.
Page 20 - ... to pass for the Creature. Whereas the Sack with which they reproach Moliere is seen only in a Farce, and has nothing in it improbable.1 In a Word, he had not Courage enough to attack the Faults of his Country; and it may be well said of him, that he did much good to Comedy, but none to the English. There's one Thing however to be offer'd in his Favour; that Moliere had more proper Materials for the Stage. The Characters in France are general, and comprehend an entire Order or Rank of People;...
Page 23 - L'Avare; but that having too few Persons, and too little Action for an English Theatre, I added to both so much, that I may call more than half of this Play my own...
Page 44 - Tis common to hear People talk of Men and Women, that make away with themselves, as they call it, and generally for Reasons that would appear to us but as...
Page 23 - Tis not Barrenness of Wit or Invention, that makes us borrow from the French, but Laziness ; and this was the Occasion of my making Use of L'Avare.1 \ At the close of the period Mrs.
Page 23 - English Theatre, I added to both so much, that I may call more than half of this Play my own ; and I think I may say without Vanity, that Moliere's Part of it has not suffer'd in my Hands ; nor did I ever know a French Comedy made...
Page 23 - L'Avare . . . The great haste I made in writing made me very doubtful of the success of it, which was the reason that at first I did not own it, but concealed my name." But Shadwell is not satisfied with this, and in the Prologue says:— " French plays, in which true wit's as rarely found. As mines of silver are on English ground . . . But stay...
Page 20 - Oedipus appears at the Window, as having his Eyes put out, and then, as from a Tribunal, he makes a beautiful Harangue, which he concludes comically, by throwing himself out of the Window, and killing himself by that extravagant Fall: Nevertheless, it is not the Actor that represents Oedipus, who throws himself out of the Window; but a Man of Past-board, made like him, which is thrown down: For had it been the Actor, he would really have killed himself. The...