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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1846. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Flaminio de Birague,* and Claude Binet, are more temperate; and Estienne Pasquier, after quoting Ronsard's testimony in his favour, and reciting the names of his eight tragedies, contents himself with adding, that they will, in his opinion, find a place among posterity.f "A mon jugement trouveront lieu dedans la posterité." In some prefatory verses to Henry III. Garnier well describes the character of these poems. Une tragedie, Semblable a celle-cy qu'humble je vous dedie: Où j'empoulle des vers pleins de sang et d'horreur, De larmes, de sanglots, de rage, et de fureurs. (Les Tragedies de Robert Garnier, Conseiller du Roy, Lieutenant General Criminel au siege Pre- sidial et Seneschaussee du Maine. A Rouen. Chez Pierre L'Oyselet, au haut des degres du Palais. 1611. 12mo. p. 12.) * Flaminio de Birague lived in the time of Charles IX. and composed quatrains, sixains, sonnets, elegies, and epitaphs. One of the epitaphs is cited by M. Philipon-la-Madelaine, in his Dictionnaire Portatif des Poètes Français. Paris, 1805. Passant, penses tu pas de passer ce passage Qu'en mourant j'ai passé? Penses au même pas. Si tu n'y penses bien, de vrai tu n'es pas sage; Car possible demain passeras au trépas. 'f Recherches de la France, 1. 6, c. 7. A tragedy, Like this which humbly I present to thee: Through the big verse, where blood and horrour rage, And tears, and sobs, and fury swell the page. He has a tumid grandeur which frequently expands itself even beyond the dimensions of Seneca himself. Like Shakspeare, he sometimes boldly coins a word, when the language does not supply him with one that will suit his purpose. Il faut pour orager ta puissance supréme Emprunter les efforts de ta puissance mesme. (P. 28.) Ces champs envenimez où...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217583164
- ISBN 13 9780217583169
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages76
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