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He strenuously denies, or ridicules, what the greatest writers have said of this fanciful art, while he lays great stress on some passages from obscure authors, or what is worse, from authors of no authority." The most pleasant part, however, is at the close where he defends the art from the objections of Mr. Chamber by recrimination.
The scoundrelly project was conceived perhaps the very day that I brought him here perhaps in that moment at lunch, do you remember? when he began to talk of the sermon at the Cathedral? 'Why did he go to the Cathedral and hear that sermon? 'To amuse a Sunday morning, I suppose. 'That is not very likely in a man who hates and ridicules religion.
The University Two Schools Wits, as men of learning were called, generally of Drama upheld the classical ideal, and ridiculed the crude-ness of the new English plays. Sackville and Norton were of this class, and "Gorboduc" was classic in its construction. In the "Defense of Poesie" Sidney upholds the classics and ridicules the too ambitious scope of the English drama.
From this reading had sprung the idea of making Cyrano the central figure of a drama laid in the city of Richelieu, d’Artagnan, and the Précieuses Ridicules, a seventeenth-century Paris of love and duelling. “At first this idea struck me as unfortunate. The elder Dumas had worked that vein so well and so completely, I doubted if any literary gold remained for another author.
Laughter rang loud through the rooms, the company was numerous, and the mistress of the house in unparalleled high spirits. If the tide of conversation seemed to slacken, quickly Madame la Duchesse had some inimitable story of the ridicules of the ladies of the Imperial court, and the whole circle was soon convulsed at her stories, and at her way of telling them. The tea-table was forgotten.
But what is the language of Cæsar—he ridicules your prerogative, power, and majesty—he talks of this proffered constitution as the tender mercy of a benevolent sovereign to deluded subjects, or, as his tyrant name-sake, of his proffered grace to the virtuous Cato:—he shuts the door of free deliberation and discussion, and declares that you must receive this government in manner and form as it is proffered—that you cannot revise or amend it, and lastly, to close the scene, he insinuates that it will be more healthy for you that the American Fabius should be induced to accept of the presidency of this new government than that, in case you do not acquiesce, he should be solicited to command an army to impose it on you.
At this universal reception of the Précieuses Ridicules, Molière, it is said, exclaimed "I need no longer study Plautus and Terence, nor poach in the fragments of Menander; I have only to study the world."
"Ordinary manoeuvres," Lady Dennisford said. "The whole proceeding is absolutely open." "And the reception of the Prince of Normandy by the Emperor?" "An act of private courtesy. He ridicules the idea of German interference in French politics." "And the rifle union?" "If he believes in it at all, he looks upon it simply as a social and patriotic club, with which we have nothing to do.
He who ridicules others, should, in his turn, be the only subject worthy of being ridiculed: but, the innocent man who steps into a drawing room, laming as Byron with a wish to imitate Byron, if, unfortunately, he falls on the carpet, or cannot prevent his tumbler of lemonade from falling on a lady's black satin dress, not only we should indulge his weak side; but, if we wish to be polite, we should turn our eyes from his uncomfortable position.
All Paris had laughed at Moliere's Precieuses Ridicules; but the Precieuses themselves, and their friends, protested that the popular farce was aimed only at the low-born imitators of those great ladies who had originated the school of superfine culture and romantic aspirations.
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