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... poet seeks to embody in a single individual a whole type , a uni- versal character . In the Misanthrope suppose that Alceste is called not Alceste but Misanthropy ; that Célimène is called Coquetry ; Philinte , Optimism ; Arsinoé ...
... poet seeks to embody in a single individual a whole type , a uni- versal character . In the Misanthrope suppose that Alceste is called not Alceste but Misanthropy ; that Célimène is called Coquetry ; Philinte , Optimism ; Arsinoé ...
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... poetic truth . Superstitious and ceremonious compliances are quite as respectable as virtue . Such seriousness as we find is imposed from without and is only a reflection of the more lugubrious aspects of the medieval atmos- phere . The ...
... poetic truth . Superstitious and ceremonious compliances are quite as respectable as virtue . Such seriousness as we find is imposed from without and is only a reflection of the more lugubrious aspects of the medieval atmos- phere . The ...
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... comedy . Several of his contemporaries attempted this task , among others Jodelle , a member , like Du Bellay , of the group of poets known as the Pléïade . His Eugène , sometimes called the first French comedy , 14 FRENCH LITERATURE.
... comedy . Several of his contemporaries attempted this task , among others Jodelle , a member , like Du Bellay , of the group of poets known as the Pléïade . His Eugène , sometimes called the first French comedy , 14 FRENCH LITERATURE.
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... poets , nearly all of whom attempt both tragedy and comedy - a significant hint that we are to find no great comic poet among them . It is significant also of the fact that these two kinds of poetry are on the eve of being rigidly ...
... poets , nearly all of whom attempt both tragedy and comedy - a significant hint that we are to find no great comic poet among them . It is significant also of the fact that these two kinds of poetry are on the eve of being rigidly ...
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... poet of the Misan- thrope . It is really his supreme genius that overleaps the interval between the comedy of intrigue and the comedy of character , and which carries the latter to a perfection no one one else - not even Shakespeare ...
... poet of the Misan- thrope . It is really his supreme genius that overleaps the interval between the comedy of intrigue and the comedy of character , and which carries the latter to a perfection no one one else - not even Shakespeare ...
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ACASTE affaire aime ALCESTE Allez amant âme amour ANSELME ARSINOÉ avez BASQUE become CÉLIMÈNE century character characters chose CLEANTE CLITANDRE cœur comedy comic COMMISSAIRE dire dramatic DUBOIS element ÉLIANTE ÉLISE equivalent esprit gaulois êtes farce fille find first FLÈCHE French FROSINE genius give good great HARPAGON heart high homme honnête human nature hypocrisy ideal j'ai j'en lack last less life literature little love m'en madame made MAÎTRE JACQUES MAÎTRE SIMON make MARIANE Matthew Arnold medieval merely MERLUCHE Misanthrope Molière Molière's monde monsieur Morbleu never note on line ORGON ORONTE parler passion père personages personne PHILINTE plays poet poetic poetry raison real reality realm redundant rien s'il vous plaît same saurait says SCÈNE sentiments Shakespeare shows society soins speak style take Tartuffe things thought time tragedy turn used usually VALÈRE veux virtue voilà vois whole words work world
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Page 258 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chaunt it : it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Page 150 - Trahi de toutes parts, accablé d'injustices, Je vais sortir d'un gouffre où triomphent les vices, Et chercher sur la terre un endroit écarté Où d'être homme d'honneur on ait la liberté.
Page 28 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 229 - 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 229 - N'y at-il personne qui veuille me ressusciter, en me rendant mon cher argent , ou en m'apprenant qui l'a pris? Euh! que dites-vous?
Page 100 - L'amour pour l'ordinaire est peu fait à ces lois, Et l'on voit les amants vanter toujours leur choix: Jamais leur passion n'y voit rien de blâmable, Et dans l'objet aimé tout leur devient aimable; Ils comptent les défauts pour des perfections, Et savent y donner de favorables noms.
Page 27 - J'ai beau voir ses défauts et j'ai beau l'en blâmer, En dépit qu'on en ait, elle se fait aimer: Sa grâce est la plus forte, et sans doute ma flamme De ces vices du temps pourra purger son âme.
Page 83 - Croyez-moi, résistez à vos tentations, Dérobez au public ces occupations, Et n'allez point quitter, de quoi que l'on vous somme, Le nom que dans la cour vous avez d'honnête homme, Pour prendre, de la main d'un avide imprimeur, Celui de ridicule et misérable auteur.
Page 132 - ... qu'aucun ne vous trouvât aimable, Que vous fussiez réduite en un sort misérable; Que le ciel, en naissant, ne vous eût donné rien; Que vous n'eussiez ni rang, ni naissance, ni bien, Afin que de mon cœur l'éclatant sacrifice Vous pût, d'un pareil sort, réparer l'injustice, Et que j'eusse la joie et la gloire en ce jour De vous voir tenir tout des mains de mon amour.
Page 84 - Ce style figuré dont on fait vanité Sort du bon caractère et de la vérité ; Ce n'est que jeu de mots, qu'affectation pure, Et ce n'est point ainsi que parle la nature.