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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 ...