Memoirs of Marmontel. Written by himself. Tr. with notes and illustrations by the author of The Swiss emigrants, Volume 2Mundell, Doig and Stevenson, 1808 |
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Abbé Abbé Morellet Abbé Raynal accused acquainted agreeable allowed amused appeared asked Baron d'Holbach Bastile beautiful Bernis Boissy Bouret Brioude called character charm conversation court Crebillon D'Alembert dauphin desire Diderot dine dinner Duclos Duke d'Aumont Duke de Choiseul enjoyed esteem expressed eyes favour formed fortune friendship Gagny gaiety Gaulard gave genius Gisors give heard Helvetius ideas interest kind king knew laugh least letters literary lively lord duke Madame de Chalut Madame de Pompadour Madame Denis Madame Geoffrin Madame Harenc Mademoiselle l'Espinasse manner Marivaux Marmontel Mercure mind natural never obliged Paris parody person Pharsalia philosopher pleasure poem poet poetry possessed Praslin procured Quesnai racter received replied Saint-Florentin satire Saumur shewed society soon soul spent Suard supper talents talked taste thing thought tion took Vaucluse Versailles verses Voltaire whole wish words writing wrote young
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Page 245 - I let myself drop under one of the trees of the wayside, and there I spent half an hour in such a state of agitation that when I got up I perceived the whole front of my vest moistened with my own tears which I had shed unawares. Oh, Sir, if ever I could have written even the quarter of what I saw and felt under that tree, with what clarity should I have revealed all the contradictions of the social system, with what...
Page 348 - Voltaire wrote a number of other pieces against the same person. He comments on a translation which Pompignan had made of Pope's " Universal Prayer," representing it as more deistical than anything published by those whom he attacked. He accuses him of unbounded vanity, of writing pompous panegyrics upon himself, &c. NOTE 23, p. 332. TOWARDS the end of the reign of Louis XV. an epidemic mortality, as it were, seemed to fall upon the royal family. The Duke of Burgundy, son to the Dauphin...
Page 173 - Friday dinner was served, with a bottle of tolerable wine, and, after he had eaten it, he was informed that it was meant for his servant. His own dinner followed : " Pyramids of new dishes, fine linen, beautiful porcelain, silver spoon and fork, an excellent soup, a slice of juicy beef, the leg of a broiled capon swimming in its gravy, a little dish of fried artichokes, one of spinach, a very fine pear, some grapes, a bottle of old Burgundy, and some of the best Mocha coffee." His servant, on seeing...
Page 45 - I saw her after the play; I would speak to her of the success she had just had. "Ah!" said she to me, "don't you see that it ruins me? In all my characters, the costume must now be observed; the truth of declamation requires that of dress; all my rich...
Page 46 - Voltaire had made her declaim with a continual and monotonous lamentation, acquired, when spoken naturally, a beauty unknown to himself; for on seeing her play it on his theatre at Ferney, where she went to visit him, he exclaimed, bathed in tears and transported with admiration, " It is not I -who wrote that, 'tis she: she has created her part!
Page 341 - He describes himself in the following lines : " Mon corps dont la structure a cinq pieds de hauteur, Porte sous l'estomac une masse rotonde, Qui de mes pas tardifs excuse la lenteur ; Peu vif dans 1'entretien, craintif, distrait, reveur...
Page 245 - Whether the advance of sciences and arts has contributed to the corruption or purification of morals. All at once I felt my mind dazzled by a thousand lights, crowds of ideas presented themselves at once with a force and a confusion which threw me into indescribable bewilderment ; I felt my head seized with a giddiness like intoxication, a violent palpitation came over me, my bosom began to heave. Unable to breathe any longer as I walked, I flung myself down under one of the trees in the avenue,...
Page 342 - Jamais dans mes chansons on n'a rien vu d'immonde. ****** D'une indolence sans seconde Paresseux, s'il en fut, et toujours endormi, Du revenu qu'il faut je n'eus pas le demi, Plus content toutefois que ceux ou l'or abonde.