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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Unconsious Comedians by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publ... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Unconsious Comedians by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Penn... ...State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Unconscious Comedians by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley De... ...ow that the great school of dancing in Paris supplies the whole world with male and female danc- ers. Thus a rat who becomes a marcheuse,—that is to s... ...is one aristocrat, that one Catholic, others juste-milieu, middle ages, or German, as they choose for their purpose. Now, though opinions do not give ... ... It was all quite otherwise alarming than the romantic tales and scenes of German drama lead one to expect; here was suffocating actuality. The air di...
Excerpt: Unconsious Comedians by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.
...ly commended and much bemoaned of all; but yet of none so greatly as of a Germane lord, called Raisciac, as he that was amased at so rare vertue: his... ...to prove I need not labour for home examples) seemeth in my opinion cosen-german to this, that is, when one is ever ready to breathe his last, caref... ...n hee was afterward, when having lost a battel, under Quintilius Varus in Germanie, all in a rage and desperate, he went up and downe beating his be... ...he stone over the head of Tantalus:' Our lawes doe often condemne and send malefactors to be executed in the same place where the crime was committed... ...you enjoy it longer? -- cur amplius addere quæris Rursum quod percat male, et ingratum occidat omne? -- LUCRET. 1. iii. 985. Why seeke you mor... ...the first day of his birth. Where fathers have the charge to punish their male children, and mothers only maidchildren, and whose punishment is to h... ... of recreations, and blame those of injustice that refuse good and honest Comedians, or (as we call them) Players, to enter our good townes, and gru... ...on the otherside, to meddle with it without love or bond of affection, as Comedians do, to play a common part of age and manners, without ought of t... ...as in Comedies, the spectators shall have as much or more pleasure as the Comedians. For my part, I no more acknowledge Venus without Cupid, then a ...
...e should he penetrate and split? Everythingness or Nothingness? He lost his male aggressiveness and confidence. As a result of his indecisiveness,... ...ch he could split all over again. In case you haven’t noticed; the Energy of male Impetus likes to penetrate things… and then go around and come ba... ... fast-slow, far-near, forward-back, degeneration, re-composition, life-death, male-female, in-out, positive polarity- negative polarity. The ... ...grips with some previously non-experienced part of their cultural past. Take Germany and its flawed attempt to bury its recent past. Now German ch... ...en mostly whitewashed and deleted from their history books. Now: enlightened Germans are forced to re-experience a painful part of their cultural pa... ...size. So; three round rocks, equals three round eggs. Which is crazy. In a German Concentration camp: the difference between having three eggs as ... ... better game, and had more fun playing it. Which team would win? The best comedians. The funniest players. The slyest. The best tacklers. The... ... ourselves and others laugh; that millions of people flock to see professional comedians; whose only job is to be funny and make other people laugh. ... ...ow much people lack a sense of their own humor. Having to go see professional comedians in order to laugh, because they are not able to be funny the...
...again. His whole 21 Frank Norris rude idea of life had to be changed. The male virile desire in him tardily awakened, aroused itself, strong and brut... ...hy, suddenly seized with a fear of him, the intuitive feminine fear of the male. McTeague could only repeat the same thing over and over again. Trina,... ... with a pink face and wonderful hair, absolutely white. The Sieppes were a German-Swiss family. “We go to der park, Schuetzen Park, mit alle dem child... ...finished. “Don’t you love sad music, Mac?” she murmured. Then came the two comedians. They talked with fear- ful rapidity; their wit and repartee seem... ...rd of 73 Frank Norris the jokes, could have listened all night. After the comedians had gone out, the iron advertise- ment curtain was let down. “Wha... ...age. They were dressed in Tyrolese costume; they were yodlers, and sang in German about “mountain tops” and “bold hunters” and the like. The yodling c... ...nary woke and chittered crossly, his feathers puffed out; the husks of ta- males littered the floor; the stone pug dog sitting before the little stove... ...ign. It costs too much; I can’t get it yet a while. There’s two kinds, one German gilt and the other French gilt; but the German gilt is no good.” McT...
...sed it in a thing of so great importance to him? He had word sent him from Germany that if he thought fit, they 5 Montaigne would rid him of Arminius... ...nd constrained to the ends of government, 12 Essays: Book III “Veri juris germanaeque justitiae solidam et expressam effigiem nullam tenemus; umbra e... ...us utimur;” [“We retain no solid and express portraiture of true right and germane justice; we have only the shadow and image of it.”—Cicero, De Offic... ...hatred to move you to such an act; but he employs you as they do condemned malefactors in execu- tions of justice, an office as necessary as dishonour... ...the other hand, to engage there without love and without inclination, like comedians, to play a common part, without putting anything to it of his own... ...s in comedies, that the people will have as much pleasure or more than the comedians. For my part, I no more acknowl- edge a Venus without a Cupid tha... ...funct was not there so much as known. Quintilian re- ports as to have seen comedians so deeply engaged in a mourn- ing part, that they still wept in t... ...edge: “Obsterix, virginis cujusdam integritatem manu velut explorans, sive malevolentia, sive inscitia, sive casu, dum inspicit, perdidit.” [“By malev... ...r eyes, a conscious blush covers her face.”—Catullus, lxv. 19.] I say that males and females are cast in the same mould, and that, education and usage...
... the Greeks, the Romans, the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South A... ...ly!)— until nine—which is late for us—then went upstairs, Jean’ s friendly German dog following. At my door Jean said, “I can’t kiss you good night, f... ...stressed and said I must think of Clara. Clara would see the report in the German papers, and as she had been nursing her husband day and night for fo... ...e so tram meled in his material that his name stands for whatever is most malevo lent and perfidious in human nature. You see how easy and flowing i... ...the laborers. No work is done, in the hive or out of it, save by them. The males do not work, the queen does no work, unless laying eggs is work, but ... ...the celebrated ecclesias tics in the list; all the celebrated tragedians, comedians, singers, dancers, orators, judges, lawyers, poets, dramatists, h...
... and this was natural enough; but he had much to say of modern theories in Germany which they had never heard of and received with misgiving. He talke... ...Rule. They realised that he was a Liberal. Their hearts sank. He talked of German philoso- 70 Of Human Bondage phy and of French fiction. They could ... ...hree years spent in a French lycee, to teach French to the upper forms and German to anyone who cared to take it up instead of Greek. Another master w... ...ake, conspired suddenly to find artistic value in the turns; and red-nosed comedians were lauded to the skies for their sense of character; fat female... ... it’s a man, isn’t it?” “Why?” asked Philip. “They generally always like a male better,” said the attendant. “A female’s liable to have a lot of fat a... ...t the smoking concerts of the Medical School by his imitation of notorious comedians, had abandoned the hospital for the chorus of a musical comedy . ... ...aging, and friendly . Like everyone connected with hospitals he found that male patients were more easy to get on with than female. The women were oft...
...was no game-preserver, and could be popu- lar whenever he chose, which Sir Males Papworth, on the other side of the river, a fast-handed Whig and terr... ...themselves look as much like the public as it was pos- sible for two young malefactors to look, one of whom al- 35 George Meredith ready felt Adrian’... ... boys left to themselves will furnish richer fun than any troop of trained comedians. No: no Art arrives at the artlessness of nature in matters of co... ...e defied. A summer-shower of cards fell on the baronet’s table. He had few male friends. He shunned the Clubs as nests of scandal. The cards he contem... ... dame, and my lady the hope of Raynham. Joy and blessings unto all! as the German poet sings. Lady Judith accepted the hand of her decrepit lord that ... ...ne awaits him fruitful within. We heard of him last that he was trying the German waters—preparatory to his undertaking the re- lease of Italy from th...
... good entertainment from real Genoese dishes, such as Tagliarini; Ravioli; German sausages, strong of garlic, sliced and eaten with fresh green figs; ... ...enoa—is a very splendid, commodi ous, and beautiful theatre. A company of comedians were acting there, when we arrived: and soon after their depar t... ... with the eyes of Heaven knows how many English, French, Americans, Swiss, Germans, Russians, Swedes, Norwegians, and other foreigners, nailed to thei... ...tared at again, without let or hindrance. The body of the room was full of male strangers; the crowd immense; the heat very great; and the pressure so... ...s to remind them that he took the money. The majority were country people, male and female. There were four or five Jesuit priests, however, and some ... ...is very high) then rose up, and stretched out its tiny arms, while all the male spectators in the square uncovered, and some, but not by any means the... ... which is perched on the steep and lofty hill above the little town of San Germano, and is lost on a misty morning in the clouds. So much the better, ...
...tion of the boudoir. The morganatic couple (to 55 Balzac use a convenient German expression which has no exact equivalent) had reached the door, when... ...alted sphere. Delphine wished for money; she married Nucingen, a banker of German extraction, who became a Baron of the Holy Roman Empire. Goriot rema... ...rdered one of his friends at the time of the Revolution. He is one of your comedians that sets up to have opinions of his own. He is a banker— senior ... ... soon twist her father round her fingers, and set his head spinning like a German top by plying him with sentiment! She will be too much touched by yo... ...self unmasked his batteries, for he took Poiret and the Michonneau for the male and female of the same species. “If his Excellency himself, his Excell... ...Poiret, his heart swelling with the cour- age that love gives to the ovine male, “respect the weaker sex.” “Spies are of no sex!” said the painter. “A...
... in the streets the coach of Madame de Bouillon, which the servants of the German woman forced to give way to their mistress’s. The Bouillons, piqued ... ...mself in the matter. She was so outraged, that she resolved to retire into Germany, and in a very few months did so. My year of service in the Muskete... ...e said, one only daughter. His wife dying in 1670, and leaving him without male children, he determined, however much he might be afflicted at the los... ...aint-Simon to Versailles, and sent off a large detachment of the army into Germany. The surprise of the Marechal de Luxembourg was without bounds. He ... ...ney, created Peer of France in 1581. It was a peerage which, in default of male successors, went to the female, but this descendant was not heir to it... ...d to quit the realm in a month. This affair made a great noise; and if the comedians lost an establishment by their boldness and folly, they who drove... ...oncluded by naming the principal,— namely, that for want of new pieces the comedians gave old ones, and, amongst others, those of Scarron, which were ... ...inals gave rise to. The Bouillons wished to be recognised as descended, by male issue, of the Counts of Auvergne, and to claim all kinds of distinctio... ...edies of Moliere were thought of, and were played by the King’s musicians, comedians for the nonce. Madame de Maintenon introduced, too, the Marechal ...
...resden, shep- herds in bridal garb, with delicate bouquets in their hands, German fantasticalities surrounding a platinum clock, in- laid with arabesq... ...e’s character to make a merit of doing her duty. The master was a Catholic German; one of those men born old, who seem all their lives fifty years of ... ...ged to those strange creations which have been properly depicted only by a German, —by Hoffman, the poet of that which seems not to exist but yet has ... ... and practice sharpened day by day. Wit is thought to be a quality rare in comedians. It is so natural to suppose that persons who spend their lives i... ... shown by au- thors, parts taken away or given to others, exactions of the male actors, spite of rivals, naggings of the stage manager, struggles with...
...hree hundred several nations; that had fought innumerable battles with the Germans and Gauls, and always carried the victory; that had taken a million... ... that must still be fed with new tro- phies and triumphs, the Parthian and German wars would yield matter enough to satisfy the most covetous of honor... ...al comes, the husband, who is either consul or praetor; and with him every male creature, quits the house. The wife then taking it under her care, set... ...ad deserted, and the cities which they had burnt. This he did for fear the Germans should pass in and possess themselves of the land whilst it lay uni... ...nal, a great multitude of people flocked together, and with loud cries and maledictions reviled him, and threw stones at him. Those that were about th... ... watercourse near Pellene and Mount T aygetus, and as far as the cities of Malea and Sellasia, into four thousand five hundred lots, the remainder int... ...he wrote, if we may believe Eratosthenes, Demetrius the Phalerian, and the Comedians. Eratosthenes says that often in his speaking he would be transpo... ...rivers, and the streams, as a man inspired, and beside himself. One of the comedians calls him a rhopoperperethras, and another scoffs at him for his ...
...all really interesting and important matter in the journal of the T our in Germany and Italy, which, as it was merely written under Montaigne’s dictat... ...ering the rod or shed- ding a tear, before beginning French, thanks to the German teacher whom his father had placed near him, and who never addressed... ...s time a great journey. As the account which he has left of his travels in Germany and Italy comprises some highly interesting particulars of his life... ...as high as it could go, both in politics and in morals. On the other hand, Malebranche and the writers of Port Royal were against him; some reprehende... ...hen into the vile slough of vice. Credit me, the greatest safeguard to fe- male chastity is sobriety of demeanour. I beseech and direct that thou ofte... ... to keep it? “‘Cur amplius addere quaeris, Rursum quod pereat male, et ingratum occidat omne?’ [“Why seek to add longer life, merely to r... ...mn these entertainments, and with injustice those who refuse to admit such comedians as are worth seeing into our good towns, and grudge the people th...
...hich carried off on the mor- row over thirty wagon-loads of cuirasses. The Germans in- vented a name for their enemies on this occasion which means “m... ...ater!” “Heavens!” thought Blondet. “And I imagined I had seen the greatest comedians of the present day!—Potier, the younger Baptiste, Michot, and Mon... ...s now in her burrow, and she won’t come out, for she’s a female,—this is a male; Mouche saw him coming just as you went away. As true as you live, as ... ...political blunder to which we owe such mistakes as sending French money to Germany to buy horses which our own land had ceased to breed; a blun- der w...
...had placed hypocrisy in the rank of art by classing Tartuffe forever among comedians— there exists a point of perfection to which genius alone at- tai... ...ellion, on consideration of his own age and that of his wife, had set up a male domestic, aged fifteen, his son having by that time entered upon his d... ... harpy which is but the trumpet of envy and calumny, the pretext seized by malevolence to belittle all that is great, soil all that is immaculate and ... ...e in winter. The hour of the great Market, which so many of his cli- ents, male and female, attended, was the determining cause of Cerizet’s early hou... ...feast of Tantalus had been provided for him: one book was English, another German, a third Russian; there was even one in cabalistic letters that seem...
...hat matter, it had begun to seem to him that there must only have been the male and the female. These made two exactly, even with the individual varie... ...ut of it, with his “home,” as Strether figured the place, in the Boulevard Malesherbes; which was perhaps why, re- pairing, not to fail of justice eit... ...actual business half an hour later was with a third floor on the Boulevard Malesherbes—so much as that was definite; and the fact of the enjoyment by ... ... to await its time. Relief was never quite near at hand for kings, queens, comedians 108 The Ambassadors and other such people, and though you might ... ...a little Jewess (which she wasn’t, oh no!) and chattering French, English, German, Italian, anything one would, in a way that made a clean sweep, if n...
...er, and you have, in the eyes of France, the responsibility of peace and war. But that you should pretend to prevent me, who am king, from extending m... ...n qualify it myself. Tell it.” “A great sin, reverend father!” “We shall judge, monseigneur.” “Y ou cannot fail to have heard of certain relations whi... ...ll take place about three o’clock.” “Aha! it is now only half-past one; let us step out, we shall be there in time to touch my three hundred and sev- ... ...ain, and said: “I do not think that can be the case, for my verses have never been printed.” “Well, then, it must have been the tragedy which informed... ...disdainfully, “a million! What will your majesty do with a million?” “It appears to me, nevertheless —— “ said Louis XIV . “That is not more than is s... ...lligent, young, handsome, and intriguing; to learn, by means of this woman, all the feminine secrets of the young household, whilst he, Malicorne, and... ... which holds its head high, it is said, never tires his rider’s hand. The withers are rather low. 572 Ten Years Later – V ol. 1 The drooping of the h...
...ne another. Father, sister, son, and brother,” opens to receive the vilest malefactor; by which the church symbolically expresses her maternal willing... ... dignity, brought into stronger relief by the mercenary employments of her male connections, and the feminine gentleness of her voice and manners, exh... ... generally to the north,) had been continually visited by some of the best comedians during Shakspeare’s childhood. One or two of the most respectable... ...vices to many persons connected with the London stage. The conversation of comedians ac- quainted with books, fresh from the keen and sparkling circle... ...e, and the Mahommedan consecration of its threshold against the ingress of males, had been trans- planted from Asia into Greece thousands of years per... ...osto amongst Italians, Camoens amongst those of Portugal, Schiller amongst Germans, however ably they may have been naturalized in foreign languages, ... ...lued by the refined and the elegant, but he is not (what Shakspeare is for Germany and America) in any proper sense a popular favorite. NO NO NO NO NO... ...eps and has long slept as a subject of criticism or com- mentary, while in Germany as well as England, and now even in France, the gathering of wits t...
...nial. On the other hand, Rabelais has been several times trans- lated into German. In the present century Regis published at Leipsic, from 1831 to 184... ...t it would be none the less curious were some one thoroughly familiar with German to translate Fischart for us, or at least, by long extracts from him... ...s, or at least, by long extracts from him, give an idea of the vagaries of German taste when it thought it could do better than Rabelais. It is danger... ...malus addam, Cum sapiens totus prodierit Rabelais. Malevolus. (Reader, the Errata, which in this book are not a few, are casu-... ... ing beasts, in the like exigent of their fulness, will never suf- fer the male-masculant to encroach them, their answer will be, that those are beast... ...e at this nick of time so outraged and wronged me, it cannot be but by the malevolent and wicked spirit. Good God, thou knowest my courage, for nothin... ...es, holy mountebanks, tumblers of beads, mumblers of ave-marias, spiritual comedians, sham saints, hermits, all of them poor rogues who, like the herm...
...s power which is understood, as it is meant to be understood, to represent Germany. The lesson taught by the play is the danger of invasion and the ne... ...ortly afterwards he refused to license another play in which the fear of a German invasion was ridiculed. The German press drew the inevitable inferen... ... press drew the inevitable inference that the Lord Chamberlain was an anti-German alarmist, and that his opinions were a reflection of those prevailin... ... submitted for license in which the relations of a prostitute with all the male characters in the piece was described as “immoral,” the Examiner of Pl... ...ase has often been made offensively im- proper on the stage by popular low comedians, with the effect of changing the whole character and mean- ing of...