The French Stage in the Eighteenth Century: 1750-1799

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Chapman and Hall, Limited, 1888
 

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Página 65 - ... all the symptoms which I have ever met with in history, previous to great changes and revolutions in Government, now exist, and daily increase in France.
Página 152 - In the simple pathos of tragedy probably very little difference will be felt from the choice of characters being pitched above or below the line of mediocrity in station. But something more than pathos is required in tragedy ; and the very pain that attends our sympathy requires agreeable and romantic associations of the fancy to be blended with its poignancy. Whatever attaches ideas of importance, publicity, and elevation to the object of pity, forms a brightening and alluring medium to the imagination....
Página 40 - I saw her after the play; I would speak to her of the success she had just had. "Ah!" said she to me, "don't you see that it ruins me? In all my characters, the costume must now be observed; the truth of declamation requires that of dress; all my rich...
Página 321 - Senez avait encore mieux exprimée dans son Oraison funèbre de Louis XV; Le silence du peuple est la leçon des rois. . ' On a même fort applaudi ces deux...
Página 143 - Lomenie that his industrial speculations in Spain proved failures, 'but he returned richer than he was himself aware ; for he carried in his head the lineaments of those so strongly-marked and original figures of Figaro, of Rosine, of Almaviva, of Bartholo, of Basile, which, some day or other, were to make the glory of his name.
Página 21 - that you will never have; nature has forbidden it; you even have it not, while you are speaking to me; the sound of your voice, the air of your countenance, your pronunciation, your gestures, your attitudes, are naturally noble. Dare only to confide in this charming native talent, and I dare warrant you will be more tragic.
Página 131 - Vive Henri Quatre! Vive le Koi vaillant! Ce diable a quatre A le triple talent, De boire et de battre, Et d'etre un vert galant...
Página 40 - Instead of the ridiculous hoop, and the ample mourning robe, in which we had been accustomed to see her in this character, she appeared in the simple habit of a slave, dishevelled, and her arms loaded with long chains.
Página 83 - You find me dying," said he ; " do you come to restore me to life, or to receive my last sighs ?" My companion was alarmed at this preface ; but I, who had a hundred times heard Voltaire say he was dying, gave Gaulard a gentle sign of encouragement.
Página 193 - Voltaire, taking him by the chin, " let me look at you ; if I mistake not, there is something in your face that tells me you will be an arrant rogue but a good actor.

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