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... be one of us or a Chian, maybe. It was pleasant enough to soak myself in comedy for a while, for right after the play, Charaxos found me and sugges... ...entimental, to talk of Alcaeus and miss him, to remember our fun at other festivals. Crickets bubbled like little pots. Frogs burped. A bat fluttere... ...an appreciate it much more. I never miss a play if I can help it, whether comedy or tragedy, SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 53 though I prefer comedy. But ... ...age will become stale. Perhaps I can think of something for the religious festivals next year. Theatre means meeting people I seldom see anywhere e... ... times. Revealing human character through animal traits, he taught us the comedy of our faults and aspirations. Alcaeus has begun writing letters, t...

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... be one of us or a Chian, maybe. It was pleasant enough to soak myself in comedy for a while, for right after the play, Charaxos found me and sugges... ...entimental, to talk of Alcaeus and miss him, to remember our fun at other festivals. Crickets bubbled like little pots. Frogs burped. A bat fluttere... ...an appreciate it much more. I never miss a play if I can help it, whether comedy or tragedy, SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 57 though I prefer comedy. But ... ...age will become stale. Perhaps I can think of something for the religious festivals next year. Theatre means meeting people I seldom see anywhere e... ... times. Revealing human character through animal traits, he taught us the comedy of our faults and aspirations. Alcaeus has begun writing letters, t... ... to throw yourself into the hands of your enemies.” There will be no more Festivals of Light. At Nazareth I used to have a pet goat. Memories... ... ... only this endrenchment, intent on obliteration, transforming life into a comedy of errors. I VOICES FROM THE PAST 438 I was twenty-eight... ...s evolved, week by week, line by line, the crabbed scrawl, poem and song, comedy and tragedy; so the characters came into being: Agrippa, Iago, Ophe...

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... lose nearly all meaning except to identify them with a set of traditional festivals and a generalized “Yes,” if asked, “Do you believe in God?” I can... ...w we are to relate to them, as well as the conduct of prayers, rituals and festivals, form the center of religious faith. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF BUDDHIS... ...urney has been written up in reli- gious literature such as Dante’s Divine Comedy and Bunyon’s Pilgrim’s Progress. It is interesting to note that the ...

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...d and sanctimonious, whom she never received at her own house. This little comedy was performed for the benefit of 10 Another Study of Woman simpleto... ...the beginning of a cold, I wrote her a line to put off one of those secret festivals which are buried under the roofs of Paris like pearls in the sea.... ... Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Bianchon, Horace Father Goriot The Atheist’s Mass Cesar Birot...

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...we do? Instantly, without reserve or hesitation, we admit him to the great festivals of civilization as an honored guest—” “You need wine for that,” i... ...c ADDENDUM The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Finot, Andoche Cesar Birotteau A Bachelor’s Establishment A Dist...

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...ep the fasts of the Church, the four roga- tion seasons, and the vigils of festivals; so Granville was not at first aware of the regular recurrence of... ... on the proper way of observing Lent, the Ember days, and the eve of great festivals. His misfortune was too great! He could not even com- plain, for ... ...42. Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy. Beaumesnil, Mademoiselle The Middle Classes Scenes from a Court...

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...ay no at- tention to the reptiles; happily, they abandon to the writers of comedy the shading and colorings of a Chardin des Lupeaulx. Vain and egotis... ...row, and, fur- ther on, the Porte-Saint-Martin, Elisabeth had never seen a comedy. When she asked to “see what it was like” (with the Abbe Gaudron’s p... ...era, where they were playing “The Chinese Laborer.” Elisabeth thought “the comedy” as wearisome as the plague of flies, and never wished to see anothe... ...birth and marriage, Easter, Christmas, New Year’s day, and Epiphany. These festivals were preceded by great domestic sweepings and a universal clearin... ...tiates him into what Bilboquet, that profound philosopher, called the high comedy of government; he is spared all the horrors of drudgery and is final... ...s to do with the wife of a gov- ernment official?” Dutocq. “They both play comedy.” Fleury [looking askance at Dutocq]. “The physical has noth- ing to...

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...eight hundred francs a year as the reward of his labors. On certain family festivals he received as a gratuity some little gift, to which Madame Guill... ...” Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Aiglemont, General, Marquis Victor d’ The Firm of Nucingen A Wo...

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...nowhere else. There alone could lovers see each other and communicate. The festivals 5 Balzac of the Church were the theatre of former times; the sou... ...d over to the Malemaison, eager to begin the unravelling of the melancholy comedy, lasting now for eight years, in the house of his silversmith; flatt...

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...tually Madame Amphoux’s liqueurs, which they only serve at the four church festivals!” “Undoubtedly the marriage was arranged a year ago by letter,” s... ...g. Throughout the morning of the next day every circum- stance of the late comedy was known in the household of Alencon, and—let us say it to the sham... ...d republican, smothered with masses, who for fifteen years had played that comedy to satisfy his vendetta, himself threw down with his own hand the wh... ...c Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. (Note: The Collection of Antiquities is a companion piece to The Ol...

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...layed with her boy’s curly head, joyous for him, happy for herself. What a comedy of pain, what mockery in this drama; I was horrified by it. Later in... ...an- ners is that of almost absolute silence about ourselves. Play a little comedy for your own instruction; talk of your- self to acquaintances, tell ... ...young. No such love is found among the women of the world; all are playing comedy; this one will interest you by her misfortunes; she seems the gentle... ... whom you may forever reign. Ah! she who loves you will love solitude; the festivals of her heart will be your glances; she will live upon your words.... ... dark palace; afraid to enter sumptuous rooms where the light shone, where festivals were given, to her denied, at the door of which she stood, one gl... ...c Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Birotteau, Abbe Francois Cesar Birotteau The Vicar of Tours Bla...

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...which you con- signed me. Yet some pang may perhaps trouble your mind amid festivals and pleasures; you may think sometimes of the child whom you thru... ...ren. He was burdened with debt, but he put his faith in his pen. He took a comedy in five acts to the Odeon; the comedy was accepted, the management a... ...at this moment, however, was counting on the success of a new melodramatic comedy by M. du Bruel, a young author who, after working in col- laboration... ...iffer- ence to the state of his garret. Etienne was the real king of these festivals; Etienne enjoyed the use of all these fine things. He was standin... ...r ex- amination elicits all the truth from the Alcalde. This piece of pure comedy, with a breath of Moliere throughout, puts the house in good humor. ... ...is public.) Say that the new methods in literature concentrate all styles, comedy and trag- edy, description, character-drawing and dialogues, in a se... ...ery, is the greatest creation of modern days; it is the successor of stage comedy grown obsolete with its re- strictions. Facts and ideas are all with...

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...the Queen of Navarre, Ariosto, and Verville, the great author of The Human Comedy has painted an epoch. In the fresh and wonderful language of the Mer... ...in token of reverence and honour to him, prince of all wisdom, and king of Comedy. THE FAIR IMPERIA THE ARCHBISHOP OF BORDEAUX had added to his suite ... ...chereau made him a bow. Then the mechanician relates to him all the secret festivals of love, vomits words of peculiar import, and pricks the dyer on ...

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...r which would make you die of laughing,—exactly like Arnolphe in Moliere’s comedy.” The count, horror-stricken, looked at Pierrotin, who, find- ing th... ... can imagine the fine page now added to the Golden Book of jurisprudential festivals. Godeschal disappeared after signing the report, leaving the elev... ...e Addendum The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Beaupre, Fanny Modest Mignon The Muse of the Department Scene...

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...t a poet should wish for blue and purple robes, and hurry as eagerly after festivals as he does. It is a bird that loves glitter and luxury with such ... ...ard’s anxiety, he said to himself, “The trick has succeeded.” This kind of comedy is often played in an attorney’s office. “Why are the Cointets perse... ...-Claud says that the room is the same as ever; I shall play my part in the comedy; and I will send word by Basine to-morrow morning to tell you whethe... ...t Illusions. The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy. Cerizet T wo Poets A Man of Business Scenes from a Courtesan’...

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... which happened in another; and several times already in the course of the Comedy of Human Life, this means has been employed in spite of its disadvan... ...There is no little town in France where, at a given time, the drama or the comedy of the stranger is not played. Often the stranger is an adventurer w... ...ttention. They bring upon the scene many persons already well-known in the Comedy of Human Life, and they reveal a vast number of facts neces- sary to... ...ur opportunities wisely, we finally meet with days which may be called the festivals of morality and intelligence, days on which, naturally and almost... ...lways found pens for sale, and never have they failed to buy them; but the comedy of this affair begins with the co-arrival and the co-presence in the... ...ruin that 271 Balzac idol in her estimation.” “But there again, as in the comedy of hatred you mean to play for Monsieur de l’Estorade’s benefit, you...

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...ghter who is my Beauty daughter, I have a Sentiment daughter, and I have a Comedy daughter. You must see them all. They’ll be en chanted.” He was goi... ... is my Sentiment daughter, Laura—plays a little but don’t sing. This is my Comedy daughter, Kitty—sings a little but don’t play. We all draw a little ... ...d to be very fond of him, were amused by this droll fact, particularly the Comedy daughter. “My dears, it is true,” said Mr. Skimpole, “is it not? So ... ...s have their nest upstairs. I dare say at some time or other Sentiment and Comedy will bring their husbands home and have their nests upstairs too.... ...he classic manner, the Sentiment daughter luxuri ant and flowing, and the Comedy daughter in the arch style, with a good deal of sprightly forehead, ... ... she was a bolter. It is immensely received in turf circles. At feasts and festivals also, in firmaments she has often graced, and among constellation...

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...here the old woman was likely to have hid the money. On the days preceding festivals, Agathe went to church and stayed there a long time; no doubt she... ...on full. “Waiter, my newspaper,” said Max, in a quiet voice. Then a little comedy was played. The fat hostess, with a timid and conciliatory air, said... ...speaking tenderly and looking at him with much af- fection; she played the comedy so well that Philippe guessed some immediate danger, merely from the... ...und, to persuade that shameless son to play, if only out of pity, a little comedy of tenderness which might wrap the mother’s heart in a winding-sheet... .... ADDENDUM The following personages appear in other stories of the Hu- man Comedy. Note: The Two Brothers is also known as A Bachelor’s Es- tablishmen...

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...orld could not be carried on at all. And if this is true of the Historical Comedy of the Centuries, it is equally true in a more restricted sphere in ... ...life through feeling, and is adorned in all her glory only for love’s high festivals. The General left his post before sunrise, but not before he had ...

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...c, young; drinking the air as she longed to drink life. The eternal aching comedy of expectant youth. It is Carol Milford, fleeing for an hour from Bl... ...re a blurry theater-audience before which she self-consciously enacted the comedy of being the Clever Little Bride of Doc Kennicott: “These-here celeb... ...nutes Carol kept it up. She asserted that she was going to stage a musical comedy, that she pre- ferred cafe parfait to beefsteak, that she hoped Dr. ... ...d less philosophical drama: Mack Schnarken and the Bathing Suit Babes in a comedy of manners entitled “Right on the Coco.” Mr. Schnarken was at variou... ...n found release from loneliness. But all of the smart set went to the lawn-festivals of the Episcopal Church, and were reprovingly polite to outsiders... ...y got her story she had five more minutes of obscene wallowing. The gutter comedy turned into high tragedy, with Nemesis in black kid gloves. The actu... ...448 Main Street to the question of whether Gopher Prairie oughtn’t to have festivals and lamb chops.” Hastily, “No, no! Sure not. I und’stand.” “But I...