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...e Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Drama on the Seashore by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormel... ...he document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. A Drama on the Seashore by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormel... ...nsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac A Drama on the Seashore by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott... ...e Genthod, nee Comtesse Walewska. Homage and remembrances of The Author. A DRAMA ON THE SEASHORE NEARLY ALL YOUNG MEN have a compass with which they d... ... a fort. The sea was beautiful; I had just dressed after bathing; and 4 A Drama on the Seashore I awaited Pauline, who was also bathing, in a granite... ... “Have you had a good catch to-day, my man?” I said to the fisherman. 6 A Drama on the Seashore “Yes, monsieur,” he replied, stopping and turning tow... ... my poor father would to-day be begging his bread.” I had thought out many dramas; Pauline was accustomed to great emotions beside a man so suffering ... ...ttled us. I saw that poor being of instinct chained to that rock like 8 A Drama on the Seashore a galley-slave to his ball; watching through twenty y... ...flux,” I answered her, “you will not be able to endure their speech; 10 A Drama on the Seashore you will think it is uttering a thought which will an...

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...ENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama in Five Acts by Edna St. Vincent Millay is a publication of the Penns... ...e file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Lamp and the Bell: A Drama in Five Acts by Edna St. Vincent Millay, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ... opportunity university. 3 Edna St Vincent Millay The Lamp and the Bell A Drama In Five Acts By Edna St. Vincent Millay Written on the occasion of th...

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...r particular case. THE THEATRICAL YOUNG GENTLEMAN All gentlemen who love the drama—and there are few gentlemen who are not attached to the most intell... ...the foot lights to the back wall, in any new play, the piece is a triumph of dramatic writing, and applauds accordingly. He has a great notion of trap... ...stain his favourite characters. He looks upon Mr. Fitz Ball as the principal dramatic genius and poet of the day; but holds that there are great write... ...at writers extant besides him, in proof whereof he refers you to vari ous dramas and melodramas recently produced, of which he takes in all the six...

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...e rise to grave suppositions, and to open the way for one of those obscure dramas which take place in families, and are none the less terrible because... ...ess terrible because they are se- cret,—if, indeed, we may apply the word “drama” to such domestic occurrences. Pierrette did not go back to bed. To h... ...f the October day. VI AN OLD MAID’S JEALOUSY BEFORE WE RELATE the domestic drama which the coming of Jacques Brigaut was destined to bring about in th... ...ad the common instinct of a spy she would have seen Brigaut, and the fatal drama then be- gun would never have taken place. It was Pierrette’s duty, w... ...about one in the morning?” Gossip and comments soon magnified the horrible drama, and a crowd collected in front of Frappier’s shop, asking the worthy... ... Monsieur Martener under the advice of Doctor Bianchon),—all this horrible drama reduced to judicial form was left to float in the vile mess called in...

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... his brow. The notary knew but too well that these signs might result in a drama before the criminal courts. In fact the cash- ier was playing a part ... ... could be judged only in a higher court than one of earth. The majority of dramas lie really in the ideas which we make to ourselves about things. Eve... ...the ideas which we make to ourselves about things. Events which seem to us dramatic are nothing more than 15 Balzac subjects which our souls convert ... ...e, and the necessity of relating the main circum- stances which govern all dramas. CHAPTER III PRELIMINARIES JEAN FRANCOIS BERNARD DUMAY, born at V an... ... silence of long nights the sisters exchanged many a confidence. With what dramatic interest was poor Bettina invested in the eyes of the innocent Mod... ...ng girl inoculated her sister with love. Together they talked of the great drama which imagination enhances; and Bettina carried with her to the grave... ...mories were always subordinate to their horror of evil. Nevertheless, this drama of a poor seduced sister returning to die under a roof of elegant pov... ... Crabbe, Moore, the great works of the 17th and 18th centuries, his- tory, drama, and fiction, from Astraea to Manon Lescaut, from Montaigne’s Essays ... ... he uses exclamatory terms they are part of himself; if he poses with high dramatic action he has made that deportment his second nature. Such defects...

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...courage shrank from the many difficulties, the many essential details of a drama so doubly dreadful and so cruelly bloody. Among the reasons which ren... ... so that the end of this present history may be like the end of all modern dramas, —a tragedy of the bed-chamber. Perhaps the fatal scene will take pl... ...ts invite to that contemplative idleness which forbids all action. No; the drama here to be developed is not one of private life; it concerns things h... ... lower. Expect no scenes of passion; the truth of this history is only too dramatic. And remember, the historian should never forget that his mission ... ...ht to a stand-still by the sight of a peas- ant,—one of those who, in this drama, are supernumeraries so essential to its action that it may be doubte... ...ry will have the merit of introducing some of the principal actors in this drama, and of exhibiting their individual interests; we shall thus be enabl... ...ecognized and hardest to untie in this low world. You who read this social drama, have you never felt a conviction as to two persons which has led you... ...tant-mayor at the moment when, by the omnipo- tence of the historian, this drama begins. In the absence of the mayor, Rigou, necessarily a member of t... ...-level despotism can and will cause great disasters, and the events of the drama about to be played in the valley of Les Aigues will prove it. The mon...

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... had to him a vitality that only a contemporary could feel; it cost him no dramatic effort to see things as Cervantes saw them; there is no anachronis... ... significant one, for it shows the early devel- opment of that love of the drama which exercised such an influ- ence on his life and seems to have gro... ...se of a man recalling the reading of his boyhood. Other things besides the drama were in their infancy when Cervantes was a boy. The period of his boy... ...y have served to keep the wolf from the door, but if so, that was all. The drama had by this time outgrown market- place stages and strolling companie... ...and the “Trato de Argel” will feel any surprise that they failed as acting dramas. Whatever merits they may have, whatever occasional they may show, t... ...severance he was unable to maintain the struggle to gain a livelihood as a dramatist for more than three years; nor was the rising popularity of Lope ... ...reading into ridicule and laughed at so many of their favourite ideas. The dramatists who gathered round Lope as their leader regarded Cervantes as th... ...lure and dis- couragement in his efforts to win the ear of the public as a drama- tist. The temperament of Cervantes was essentially sanguine. The por... ...was bent on being the Aeschylus of Spain. He was to found a great national drama, based on the true principles of art, that was to be the envy of all ...

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...e of Henry III., and the scene of the principal events of his depraved and dramatic reign. It has been restored more than enough, as I have said, by a... ...tions. Mixed up with them all is the great name of reli- gion, so that the drama wants nothing to make it com- plete. What episode was ever more perfe... ...g to make it com- plete. What episode was ever more perfect—looked at as a dramatic occurrence—than the murder of the Duke of Guise? The insolent pros... ...e— a womanish figure in a long robe and a turban, with big bare arms and a dramatic pose—would be to think of him as a kind of truculent sultana. He w... ...story has the fatal progres- sion, the dark rigidity, of one of the tragic dramas of the Greeks. Jean Calas, advanced in life, blameless, bewil- dered... ...ally with three figures more diverse,—a disqualified sovereign, an Italian dramatist, and a bad French painter. The produc- tions of M. Fabre, who fol... ...hat formed the conso- lation of his old age. He was a painter, a writer, a drama- tist, a modern dilettante, addicted to private theatricals. There is...

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... had to him a vitality that only a contemporary could feel; it cost him no dramatic effort to see things as Cervantes saw them; there is no anachronis... ... significant one, for it shows the early devel- opment of that love of the drama which exercised such an influ- ence on his life and seems to have gro... ...se of a man recalling the reading of his boyhood. Other things besides the drama were in their infancy when Cervantes was a boy. The period of his boy... ...y have served to keep the wolf from the door, but if so, that was all. The drama had by this time outgrown market- place stages and strolling companie... ...and the “Trato de Argel” will feel any surprise that they failed as acting dramas. Whatever merits they may have, whatever occasional they may show, t... ...severance he was unable to maintain the struggle to gain a livelihood as a dramatist for more than three years; nor was the rising popularity of Lope ... ...reading into ridicule and laughed at so many of their favourite ideas. The dramatists who gathered round Lope as their leader regarded Cervantes as th... ...lure and dis- couragement in his efforts to win the ear of the public as a drama- tist. The temperament of Cervantes was essentially sanguine. The por... ...was bent on being the Aeschylus of Spain. He was to found a great national drama, based on the true principles of art, that was to be the envy of all ...

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... and her examination of the burden it contained. Then their thirst was for drama— to see, to drink every wonderful syllable those lovers had written. ... ...o speculate upon how it had come to pass, and let the curtain hang, though dramas and romances, with the miracles involved in them, were agitated by a...

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...ed open-mouthed, to the detri- ment of his employer’s interests; or by the dramas of fallen horses, whose pathos and violence induced him sometimes to... ...aw. From a certain point of view we are here in the presence of a domestic drama.” The Assistant Commissioner laughed a little; but the great man’s th...

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...t have been pleased with the tableau with which the last act of our little drama concluded; for what can be prettier than an image of Love on his knee... ...erform in Shylock. Captain Osborne was a great lover of the 259 Thackeray drama, and had himself performed high-comedy characters with great distinct... ...e matrimonial barrier, the novelist generally drops the curtain, as if the drama were over then: the doubts and struggles of life ended: as if, once l... ...n the great burying show took place—but these are mute person- ages in our drama; and having nothing to do or say, need oc- cupy a very little space h... ...an entertainment at Gaunt House, which should include some of these little dramas—and we must take leave to introduce the reader to this brilliant reu... ..., and soared as high and joyful as her triumph. There was a ball after the dramatic entertainments, and every- body pressed round Becky as the great p...

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... Mostyn. She had been struck, when he sketched it, with the subject of his drama, and had spoken words that helped him to believe 6 Nona Vincent in i... ...austere. The scenic idea was magnificent when once you had embraced it—the dramatic form had a purity which made some oth- ers look ingloriously rough... ...ed before him and he seemed to walk on marble slabs. The more he tried the dramatic form the more he loved it, the more he looked at it the more he pe... ... but he could at least reflect that he had done his best to learn from the drama that it is a gross impertinence al- most anywhere. He had knocked at ... ...ers; but this, with its imperfections and fail- ures, was all his own. The drama lived, at any rate, for that hour, with an intensity that it was prom... ...edge—good steel that had never been sharpened; she hacked away at her hard dramatic loaf, she couldn’t cut it smooth. 19 Henry James CHAPTER II “Cert...

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...et event which he thus re- counted. The public prosecutor imagined a whole drama to result in the return by night of Madame de Dey’s son, the emigre. ...

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...s the bearer. You will perhaps smile at my German imagination, but I see a drama of sad sublimity in the eternal secrecy which en- gulfed those partin... ...his room, and were told, ‘This is the murderer!’ would not that be another drama? And what would you do?” Monsieur Hermann looked for his hat and went...

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...foregoing events, which may be called a sort of prologue to this bourgeois drama, in which we shall find passions as violent as those excited by great... ...r gives a momentous interest to the petty 27 Balzac events of the present drama and to the anterior lives of the actors in it, it may be useful to gi... ...If it be permissible for the historian to turn aside for a moment from the drama he is narrating and ask his readers to cast a glance upon the lives o...

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... of his steward, is here necessary in order to fully understand the little drama now about to take place in Pierrotin’s vehicle. CHAPTER II THE STEWAR... ...ttle elegance, if indeed the eyes of a child riveted on a melo- 37 Balzac drama were likely to examine the audience. His step-father still wore, afte... ...to have changed linen then. Give you my word, I knew nothing of that melo- drama. It seems the Greek girl put opium (a great many pop- pies, as monsie... ...mes in cases.” “‘Romances alter cases,’” remarked Mistigris. CHAPTER V THE DRAMA BEGINS PIERROTIN’S VEHICLE was now going down the steep incline of th...

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...the people he introduces are playing their little part in a great national drama everywhere around us, invisible, yet audible through the clamour of v... ... urgenev has been casting before his eyes the faint shadow of the national drama which was indeed played, though left unfinished, on the Balkan battle... ...in crossed his arms on his breast. ‘ Ah, you type of the choice element in drama,’ he exclaimed, ‘you primeval force of the black earth, cornerstone o... ...s still living, whether she is hidden away somewhere, or whether the petty drama of life is over—the little ferment of her ex- istence is at an end; a...

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... he went so far as to promise him- self some entertainment from the little drama—if drama it was—of which Mrs. Penniman desired to represent the ingen... ...uld have remembered it for him. Mrs. Penniman delighted of all things in a drama, and she flattered herself that a drama would now be enacted. Combini... ...man took too much satisfac- tion in the sentimental shadows of this little drama to have, for the moment, any great interest in dissipating them. She ... ...ed by the pathetic ring of the words; it was the most calculated, the most dramatic little speech the Doctor had ever uttered. She felt that it was a ...