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Excerpt: Unconsious Comedians by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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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... ...francs from the Funds, his pictures sell for their weight in 4 Unconsious Comedians gold, and (what seems to him more extraordinary than the invitati... ...s adventures to his cronies in the provinces, “two Parisians 6 Unconsious Comedians dressed in simple frock-coats, looking like nothing at all, calle... ...her forehead charming but audacious, her bust thin,—in other 8 Unconsious Comedians words, an unripe fruit. “That,” replied Bixiou, “is a rat tied to... ...; by which she will earn about two hundred francs a month.” 10 Unconsious Comedians “She is better dressed than my prefect’s wife.” “If you should go... ...iou. When they reached Theodore Gaillard’s abode, which was 12 Unconsious Comedians now in the rue de Menars, the valet ushered the three friends int... ... his face moving. “I call her Lizette because of Beranger.” 14 Unconsious Comedians “You have a Lizette, and you stay in such a business!” cried the ...

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... 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... ... intellectual, unloving, uncaring, sneering humor. The way most civilized comedians get people to laugh is to either deliberately portray themsel... ...nent comedian of America, the late George Carlin, who outlasted all the other comedians in the waning days of the Age of Comedy in America. He start... ...ong as he could get people to laugh at the truths he told. Which is what all comedians do, regardless if they are the best or the worst of that bre... ...nces laughed at the truths he told them because he was a comedian. When only comedians are allowed to speak of serious ethical and moral issues, wh... ... for that. Getting an audience to laugh at the truth is bad enough… but when comedians use comedy to twist the truth and reverse the truth and pres... ...ating the worst and sneering at the best. The entire culture of professional comedians has been turned into pushing the envelope of ‘how low can y...

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... 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 ... ...nown or heard of about those quarters. Quintilian reporteth to have seene Comedians so farre ingaged in a sorrowfull part, that they wept after being...

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...rom day to day without looking ahead. I took the parts of buffoons and low comedians, letting my mind go to wreck. Ah! but I was a great artist once, ...

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...stioned by the laws. Neither is it recorded that the writings of those old comedians were suppressed, though the acting of them were forbid; and tha... ... scrupulous. And yet at the same time, Naevius and Plautus, the first Latin comedians, had filled the city with all the borrowed scenes of Menander ...

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...alms of grace. I knew Charles the Second very well — one of the most popular comedians in the En glish section — draws first rate. There are better, ...

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...II. Les Comediens sans le savoir The Unconscious Humorists The Unconscious Comedians Histoire des T reize: The Thirteen: Ferragus La Duchesse de L...

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...at us, like strumpets; and scald rhymers Ballad us out o tune: the quick comedians Extemporally will stage us, and present Our Alexandrian revels; A...

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...ike Strumpets, and scald Rimers 3459 Ballads vs out a Tune. The quicke Comedians 3460 Extemporally will stage vs, and present 3461 Our Ale...

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...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...

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...nizens of a studio and of a lawyer’s office are, in this line, superior to comedians. In buying a practice without clients, Desroches began, as it wer...

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... 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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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 ...

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...the celebrated ecclesias tics in the list; all the celebrated tragedians, comedians, singers, dancers, orators, judges, lawyers, poets, dramatists, h...

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...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 ... ...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 ...

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...l-woven heads and marble architecture; and a Watteau group of lute-playing comedians, lounging by a fountain in a sunlit glade. Each evanescent pictur...

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...ater!” “Heavens!” thought Blondet. “And I imagined I had seen the greatest comedians of the present day!—Potier, the younger Baptiste, Michot, and Mon...

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...- thing more. Indolent and prolific as Rossini, compelled, like great poet-comedians, like Moliere and Rabelais, to see both sides of everything, and ...

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...that was all the grandeur he had. I think he was like what I have heard of comedians; not that I have ever seen one. But I know he painted his face. H...

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...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... ...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 . ...

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...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 ...

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... 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...

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...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...

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..., and re taining in his hand a small whip wherewith to awe his company of comedians, he came up to the fire to dry himself, and entered into conversa...

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...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...

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... 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 ...

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...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...

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... she fascinated and amused her contemporaries. They were great sentimental comedians, these Peters, Elizabeths, and Catherines who played their Tsarsh...

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...mu alpha iota}, by the Athenians {delta eta mu iota}: and they assume that Comedians were so named not from {kappa omega mu ‘alpha zeta epsilon iota n...

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...uestioned by the laws. Neither is it recorded that the writings of those old comedians were suppressed, though the acting of them were forbid; and tha...

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...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...

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...: a whole class of frankly blackguardly plays, in which unscru- pulous low comedians attract crowds to gaze at bevies of girls who have nothing to exh...

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... 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...

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...at first to find stuff crude enough to nurse them on. The best music- hall comedians ransacked their memories for the oldest quips and the most childi...

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... It might have been assumed; yet nobody is altogether a comedian; and even comedians themselves have got to believe in the part they play. Of the two ...

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...es, holy mountebanks, tumblers of beads, mumblers of ave-marias, spiritual comedians, sham saints, hermits, all of them poor rogues who, like the herm...