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Updated: June 25, 2025
Old Kepler is filled with agitations of joy; all the friends of Galileo extol his genius; his fame spreads far and near; he is regarded as the ablest scientific man in Europe. His enemies are now dismayed and perplexed. The principal professor of philosophy at Padua would not even look through the wonderful instrument. Sissi of Florence ridicules the discovery.
The poor Dauphine of Bavaria used to send all the young coxcombs of the Court to me, knowing that I detested such persons, and would be nearly choked with laughter at seeing the discontented air with which I talked to them. Falsehood and superstition were never to my taste. The King was in the habit of saying, "Madame cannot endure unequal marriages; she always ridicules them."
'Tills be blowed! said Mr. Claypole; 'there's more things besides tills to be emptied. 'What do you mean? asked his companion. 'Pockets, women's ridicules, houses, mail-coaches, banks! said Mr. Claypole, rising with the porter. 'But you can't do all that, dear, said Charlotte. 'I shall look out to get into company with them as can, replied Noah.
But the man who prides himself on his heterodoxy is often equally guilty here. He ridicules the old type of piety and thinks to improve on it with new sets of phrases. All these critics have is new arrangements of words. Even the man who rejects all religion satisfies himself with the cant phrase of irreligion.
Ninon never hesitated to declaim against the fictitious beauty that pretended to inculcate virtue and morality while secretly engaged in the most corrupt practices, but Molière came with his Précieuses Ridicules and pulverized the enemies of human nature.
Tell me something of Paris, monsieur, of that lovely, enchanting, but overbold coquette, Paris, whom the world adores while it ridicules, and imitates while it blames."
When he fancies he can elicit this and that, by his own logic, out of sentences and clauses torn from their context, he has no right to disguise what I have said to the contrary, and claim to justify his fraud by accusing me of self-contradiction. Rogers deliberately justifies himself in ridiculing them, pretending that he only ridicules me.
The pieces which Molière had already composed were received with great favor, but it was not until 1659, that he commenced the honorable satirical war upon folly and affectation which he waged for so many years. It was then that he produced "Les Précieuses Ridicules." The piece was acted for the first time November 18, 1659, and received with unanimous applause.
Aristophanes takes notice of it in the verses in which he jests at Theorus; "How like a colax he is," says Alcibiades, meaning a corax; on which it is remarked, "How very happily he lisped the truth." Archippus also alludes to it in a passage where he ridicules the son of Alcibiades;
Kathleen West's clever one-act play, "In the Days of Shakespeare," was worthy of her genius. It presented the scene from the "Taming of the Shrew," where Petruchio ridicules Katherine's gown and berates the tailor.
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