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Twice again did the Seigneur's weapon draw blood, once from the shoulder and once from the leg of his opponent, and the blood was flowing from each wound. After the second injury they stood panting for a moment. Now the outside world was shut out from Fournel's senses as it was from Louis Racine's.
This is no state visit, but a friendly call to offer congratulations on your happy escape, and to inquire how you are." The Governor said his sentences easily, but he suddenly flushed and was embarrassed, for Louis Racine's deformity, of which he had not known Pontiac kept its troubles to itself stared him in the face; and he felt the Seigneur's eyes fastened on him with strange intensity.
The libretto was thereupon written, or rather arranged from Racine's "Iphigénie en Aulide," and with this, Chevalier Gluck, lately made Knight of the papal order of the Golden Spur, set out for Paris. And now began a long season of hard work. The opera "Iphigénie" took about a year to compose, besides a careful study of the French language.
TILLEMONT'S vast labours were traced out in his mind at the early age of nineteen, on reading Baronius; and some of the finest passages in RACINE'S tragedies were composed while a pupil, wandering in the woods of the Port-Royal. But with the middling as well as with the great, the same habits must operate.
This paper contained an insipid Jansenist parody on that beautiful scene in Racine's Mithridates: I had not read ten lines of it, but by forgetfulness left it in my pocket, and this caused all my necessaries to be confiscated.
Those profits were, however, inconsiderable; the truth is, the king remunerated the poets. Racine's first royal mark of favour was an order signed by Colbert for six hundred livres, to give him the means of continuing his studies of the belles-lettres.
All the interest is centred in Monime: she is one of Racine's most amiable creations, and excites in us a tender commiseration. On no work of this poet will the sentence of German readers differ more from that of the French critics and their whole public, than on the Iphigenie.
Racine's "Esther" in the noble lines lauded by Voltaire might be almost rebuking Mr. Wells: Ce Dieu, maître absolu de la terre et des cieux, N'est point tel que l'erreur le figure
They say that Monsieur de Maurepas, who is dying, being told that the Duc de Lauzun had brought the news of Lord Cornwallis's surrender, said, from Racine's "Mithridate" I think: Mes derniers regards out vu fuir les Romains. How Lord Chatham will frown when they meet! for, since I began my letter, the papers say that Maurepas is dead.
Her prayer-books and her children were the sole objects that interested this good woman. Racine's sensibility was not mitigated by his marriage; domestic sorrows weighed heavily on his spirits: when the illness of his children agitated him, he sometimes exclaimed, "Why did I expose myself to all this? Why was I persuaded not to be a Chartreux?"
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