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Alzire remains between these conflicting elements in an affecting struggle betwixt attachment to her country, its manners, and the first choice of her heart, on the one part, and new ties of honour and duty on the other. All the human motives speak in favour of Alzire's love, which were against the passion of Zaire.
Alzire's 'Je puis mourir, for instance, is an obvious reminiscence of the 'Qu'il mourût! of le vieil Horace; and the cloven hoof is shown clearly enough by the 'O ciel! with which Alzire's confidante manages to fill out the rest of the line. Many of these blemishes are, doubtless, the outcome of simple carelessness; for Voltaire was too busy a man to give over-much time to his plays.
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