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Updated: June 10, 2025
Since then, Mesdemoiselles DUCHESNOIS and GEORGES have both been received into the company of the Theatre Francais. Paris, January 22, 1802. The observation with which I concluded my last letter, might explain why the votaries of Thalia gain so little augmentation to their number; while those of Melpomene are daily increasing.
"I think," said Talbot, "that my friend Frank is as good a hand at that as any of us. Do you remember when you swam away from the frigate at Spithead, to pay a visit to your friend, Mrs Melpomene, at Point?" "I do," said I, "and also how generously you showered the musket-balls about my ears for the same."
Nevertheless their histrionic art was in a backward condition, lacking in ideality and distinction. Wherefore the French tragedy was to be welcomed as a 'guide to the better'. It was to come 'like a departed spirit and purify the desecrated stage into a worthy seat of the ancient Melpomene'.
The average comedian will whisper, if you are fortunate enough to get him in confidential mood, that he was really designed by nature to tread the stately walks of tragedy; that had not cruel fate intervened he would now be enthralling the town with his Hamlet, Macbeth, or Othello, and that even yet he has not lost all hope of adorning the kingdom of Melpomene.
In the house opposite she observed a celebrated actress amidst her family; her daughter was performing her dancing lesson: the girl Clairon, the future Melpomene, was struck by the influence of this graceful and affectionate scene.
For on the stage's boarded scaffold here A world ideal opens to our eyes, Nothing is true and genuine save a tear; Emotion on no dream of sense relies. The real Melpomene is still sincere, Naught as a fable merely she supplies By truth profound to charm us is her care; The false one, truth pretends, but to ensnare.
Arty to the Grand Christmas Eve Ball of the Cigar-Makers' Union at Melpomene Hall. Nelly asked of Mr. Wrenn, almost as urgently as of Mrs. Arty, whether she should wear her new white mull or her older rose-colored China silk. Two days before Christmas he timidly turned over the play for typing to a haughty public stenographer who looked like Lee Theresa Zapp.
Left to myself, I ruminated for some time on what had occurred; and the beautiful Emily Somerville having vanished from my sight, I recollected the little fascinating actress from whom I had so suddenly parted on the preceding night; still I must say, that I was so much occupied with the charms of her successor, that I sought the society of the youthful Melpomene more with a view to beguile the time, than from any serious prepossession.
To block the entrance to Ostend: Sirius and Brilliant. At Dover Warwick, flagship of Vice-Admiral Keyes; Phoebe, North Star, Brigadier, Trident, Mansfield, Whirlwind, Myngs, Velox, Morris, Moorsom, Melpomene, Tempest and Tetrarch. To damage Zeebrugge Submarines C-1 and C-3. A special picket boat to rescue crews of C-1 and C-3.
My dear boy," she cried, while the nieces gasped at each other with gestures and looks all the way between Terpsichore and Melpomene, and then the four cried in chorus, "We know your mother!" "We've got a letter for you from her!" exclaimed Camille. "And a suit of unie-fawm!" called Cecile, with her Creole accent. "We smuggled it through!" chanted the trio, ready to weep for virtuous joy.
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