soins, cp

315-322. The thought is borrowed from Heliodonis, a décadent Greek novelist, in whose ^thiopica (x. 1 7 ), a father, when about to immolate his daughter on a buming pyre, remarks that " passion bums his heart with yet more ardent flame." This was a favorite novel of Racine's youth, and he profited by its example usually to his injury. To boast of his carnage among.her relatives and to assure her that her eyes hâve inflicted equal wounds on him is not the language of a hero of any race or âge, but a hot-house product of the literary salons of the Grand Siècle. 320 is surely to modem readers the least admirable Une in this play.