Molière, by mrs. Oliphant and F. TarverW. Blackwood and Sons, 1879 - 192 pages |
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actors Agnès Alceste amusing Angélique appearance Armande Arnolphe Avare Bazin Béjart better blue-stockings bourgeois Célimène character charms chimæras Cléante Clitandre comedian comedy Court cries Dandin daughter delightful disguise doctors Don Juan doubt drama dramatist Éraste Étourdi eyes father favour favourite feeling Femmes Savantes Festin de Pierre folly French genius gentlemen Géronte give Gros-René Harpagon heart Heaven honour Hôtel Hôtel de Bourgogne human humour husband hypocrite Jourdain kind king La Grange ladies laugh Léandre less live Louis Louis XIV lover Lucinde Marinette marquis marriage marry Mascarille master Médecin mind Misanthrope Molière Molière's never noble once Orgon Paris passion person personage piece play players poor Poquelin Précieuses Prince de Conti profession received ridiculous satire satirist says Scapin scarcely scene Sganarelle stage story Strobilus supposed Tartuffe tell theatre tion Trissotin troupe turn Valère valet verses wife word young
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Page 160 - It appears to me that you place them differently from what they are; that the heart is on the left side, and the liver on the right.
Page 152 - My mind is wandering, and I know not where I am, who I am, and what I am doing. Alas! my poor money! my poor money! my...
Page 104 - I have therefore determined to live with her as if she were not my wife; but if you knew what I suffer you would pity me.
Page 123 - I want to clap my hands, raise my arm, look upwards, stoop my head, move my feet, go to the right, to the left, forwards, backwards, turn round— [He falls on the ground.
Page 104 - My passion has risen to such a height that it goes the length of entering with sympathy even into her concerns ; and when I consider how impossible it is for me to overcome my love for her, I say to myself that she may have the same difficulty in subduing her inclinations, and I feel accordingly more disposed to pity her than to blame her.
Page 113 - • Dorine goes on to say that her mistress had consented to be bled. " And Tartuffe ? " "He took courage like a man ; and, fortifying his soul against all evils, to make up for the blood which madame had lost, he drank at dejeuner four good beakers of wine.
Page 104 - I found so much indifference in her that I began to perceive...
Page 153 - ... tell me. Is he not hidden among you? They are all looking at me, and laughing in my face. You will see that they have, no doubt, a share in the robbery. Come quickly, magistrates, policeofficers, provosts, judges, instruments of torture, gibbets, and executioners. I will have the whole world hanged; and if I do not recover my money, I will hang myself afterwards.
Page 120 - ... would tell him plainly to his face : " Dare you thus jest with Heaven, and do you not tremble to laugh, as you do, at things the most sacred ? Does it become you, you little earthworm, you mannikin that you are (I speak to the master I mentioned), does it become you to wish to turn into ridicule what all men revere ? Do you think that because you are a man of rank, because you wear a fair and well-curled wig, have some feathers in your hat, a gold-laced coat, and flame-coloured...