Louis Fourteenth, and the Writers of His Age: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered (in French) to a Select Audience in New YorkJ. P. Jewett, 1855 - 413 oldal |
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... Alceste , is one of the best men in the world ; but unhappily , his virtue is of a stern cast ; and he merits only too well his epithet of Misan- thrope , or enemy of men . The first scene presents him sad and vexed ; his friend ...
... Alceste , is one of the best men in the world ; but unhappily , his virtue is of a stern cast ; and he merits only too well his epithet of Misan- thrope , or enemy of men . The first scene presents him sad and vexed ; his friend ...
340. oldal
... Alceste stops him immediately : — " Call me your friend ! erase that from your books ; I have profess'd , sincerely toó , your friend to be . But , after what this day in you I see , I must decline that title to retain ; To dwell in ...
... Alceste stops him immediately : — " Call me your friend ! erase that from your books ; I have profess'd , sincerely toó , your friend to be . But , after what this day in you I see , I must decline that title to retain ; To dwell in ...
342. oldal
... man ; but whose intrigues , never- theless , make him formidable . Philinte counsels him to call upon the judges , if he would not run the risk of losing it . Alceste is too honest to have recourse 342 LECTURE VIII .
... man ; but whose intrigues , never- theless , make him formidable . Philinte counsels him to call upon the judges , if he would not run the risk of losing it . Alceste is too honest to have recourse 342 LECTURE VIII .
343. oldal
... Alceste is too honest to have recourse to such means , and does not follow his advice . 6 PHILINTE But whom then , do you wish to plead your cause ? ALCESTE . Whom do I wish ? Reason , justice , and my rights . " Sure of his rights , he ...
... Alceste is too honest to have recourse to such means , and does not follow his advice . 6 PHILINTE But whom then , do you wish to plead your cause ? ALCESTE . Whom do I wish ? Reason , justice , and my rights . " Sure of his rights , he ...
344. oldal
... ALCESTE . I am inclined To be somewhat too frank in matters of this kind . ORONTE . That meets my wants ; and I shall be surpris'd , If when I show my faults , to have them criticiz'd , You shall from me , your honest thought withhold ...
... ALCESTE . I am inclined To be somewhat too frank in matters of this kind . ORONTE . That meets my wants ; and I shall be surpris'd , If when I show my faults , to have them criticiz'd , You shall from me , your honest thought withhold ...
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236. oldal - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres, till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head; The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright, That birds would sing, and think it were not night.
236. oldal - But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
236. oldal - I will answer it. 1 am too bold; 'tis not to me she speaks. Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
346. oldal - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
236. oldal - But by pursuing closely one argument, which is not cloyed with many turns, the French have gained more liberty for verse, in which they write ; they have leisure to dwell on a subject which deserves it ; and to represent the passions (which we have acknowledged to be the poet's work), without being hurried from one thing to another...
236. oldal - But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him; no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets *Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.
236. oldal - Romantic poetry, on the other hand, is the expression of the secret attraction to a chaos which lies concealed in the very bosom of the ordered...
236. oldal - ... its fragmentary appearance, approaches more to the secret of the universe. For Conception can only comprise each object separately, but nothing in truth can ever exist separately and by itself; Feeling perceives all in all at one and the same time.
148. oldal - Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus are those of a God.