But he puts it simply; not as an exercise in the
quasi-philosophical bathetic.
{5} Femmes Savantes:
BELISE: Veux-tu toute la vie offenser la grammaire?
MARTINE: Qui parle d'offenser grand'mere ni grand-pere?'
The pun is delivered in all sincerity, from the mouth of a rustic.
{6} Maskwell seems to have been carved on the model of Iago, as by the
hand of an enterprising urchin. He apostrophizes his 'invention'
repeatedly. 'Thanks, my invention.' He hits on an invention, to say: 'Was
it my brain or Providence? no matter which.' It is no matter which, but
it was not his brain.
{7} Imaginary Conversations: Alfieri and the Jew Salomon.
{8} Terence did not please the rough old conservative Romans; they liked
Plautus better, and the recurring mention of the vetus poeta in his
prologues, who plagued him with the crusty critical view of his
productions, has in the end a comic effect on the reader.
{9} The exclamation of Lady Booby, when Joseph defends himself: 'YOUR
VIRTUE! I shall never survive it!' etc.
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