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Page 36
... Molière , Crébillon , and Voltaire , perfected the French drama . In the infancy of the tragic art in our country , the bowl and dag- ger were considered as the great instruments of a sublime pathos ; and the " Die all " and " Die nobly ...
... Molière , Crébillon , and Voltaire , perfected the French drama . In the infancy of the tragic art in our country , the bowl and dag- ger were considered as the great instruments of a sublime pathos ; and the " Die all " and " Die nobly ...
Page 111
... Molière learnt much , as appears by the verses under his portrait : - Cet illustre Comédien De son art traça la carrière : 11 fut le maître de Molière , Et la Nature fut le sien . The last lines of an epitaph on one of these pantomimic ...
... Molière learnt much , as appears by the verses under his portrait : - Cet illustre Comédien De son art traça la carrière : 11 fut le maître de Molière , Et la Nature fut le sien . The last lines of an epitaph on one of these pantomimic ...
Page 120
... Molière's " Malade Imaginaire . " It is in " The Emperor of the East , " vol . iii . 317. The Quack or " Empiric's " humorous notion is so closely that of Molière's , that Mr. Gifford , agreeing with Mr. Gilchrist , finds it difficult ...
... Molière's " Malade Imaginaire . " It is in " The Emperor of the East , " vol . iii . 317. The Quack or " Empiric's " humorous notion is so closely that of Molière's , that Mr. Gifford , agreeing with Mr. Gilchrist , finds it difficult ...
Page 121
... Molière had drawn from the same source - the Italian Comedy . Massinger's " Empiric , " as well as the acknowledged copy of Mo- lière's " Médecin , " came from the " Dottore " of the Italian Comedy . The humour of these old Italian ...
... Molière had drawn from the same source - the Italian Comedy . Massinger's " Empiric , " as well as the acknowledged copy of Mo- lière's " Médecin , " came from the " Dottore " of the Italian Comedy . The humour of these old Italian ...
Page 123
... Molière , it must be presumed , never read Fletcher's plays , yet his " Bourgeois Gentilhomme " and the other's " Noble Gentleman " bear in some instances a great resem- blance . Both may have drawn from the same Italian source of ...
... Molière , it must be presumed , never read Fletcher's plays , yet his " Bourgeois Gentilhomme " and the other's " Noble Gentleman " bear in some instances a great resem- blance . Both may have drawn from the same Italian source of ...
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