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Paniii les grands écrivains qui honorent notre littérature, il en est peu dont les œuvres ûont été aussi fréquemment reproduites que celles di Bacine. Les grammairiens, les critiques et les commentateurs littér&ires, ont depuis deux siècles étudié ses compositions scéniques pour y cherflier les uns des modèles de style, les autres le modèle de Part et dv
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fO<b, et les nombreux travaux dont ce poëte à jamais célét»« a été Pobjet, nous imposaient de grondes obligations ; anssi uons sommesnous efforcé de rendre irréprochable Tédition que nous publions au jonrd^hoL
Nous avons donné d^abord toutes les préfiices, parce qu'elles forment findispensable introduction dos pièces; qu^clIes eu contiennent souvent Panalyse et rexameU) et que Racine y développe avec la supériorité de son génie ses théories esthétiques.
Nous avons aussi reproduit toutes les variantes, parce qu'on voit li les premiers essais du poëte, le travail de son goût dans le choix des mots, et son constant effort pour approcher autant que possible de la perfection. ♦ ♦ ♦ Comme toujours, nous avons fait prédominer le eommenUûro moral et psychologique, et en rapportant à Tooeasion le jugement des contemporains du poëte, à partir du grand Gondé et de madame de Sévigné, nous avons suivi, en ce qu'ils ont de plus saillant, les travaux des critiques et des historiens littéraires, depuis Racine fils, jusqu'à messieurs Sainte-Beuve, Nisard et Sûnt-Maro Oirardin. Ou a do la sorte, dans le blâme et dans l'éloge, l'écho fidèle de l'opinion dans un espace de près de deux siècles.
Ainsi, notre édition ol&e, jusque dans les moindres variantes et lea moindres ûtigments, tout ce que Racine a écrit pour le théâtre, et sous une forme concise tout ce que l'histoire littéraire a dit de plus essentiel sur ce théâtre lui-même.
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'* The incident which gave lise to this history is founded in tnith. No imagination, however ièrtile, could produce actions so heroic, or sentiroents eo noble and eievated. The hean alone coold inspire them. * * Authon haye freqnently been accused of representing the beauties o Tiitiie with too bold a pencil, and in colora too vivid. Far am I, however, from presnming to inônuate that this cridcism is applicable to myself, who poseeas not the abilities requisite to attain this biilliant though creaûve talent ; nor do I conceive that it is in the power of the most éloquent author, by ail the atudied embelliahments and décorations of language, to add a single charm te the innatc beauties of virtue. On the contrary, sfae ia in henelf so ht superior to the adscititioos aida of omament, that it would rather appear impossible to describe her in ail her native dignity and loveliness. This is the chief difficulty I hâve experienced in writing EusABSTn"^Tratulaiion of extract from Author's préface.
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Conversational Phrases Classified, or French Synonixnes,
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Mo6t of the Guides to French Conversation heretofore publiehed in this country hâve been merely collections of certain conversations on specified subjects» which, unless they were again to recur in the précise fbrm of the lesson, would be of but little assistance to the student. In other words, he but stores bis minJ with set formai phrases for spécifie occasions, without an acquaintance with the genius and power of the language, or the ability to adapt his knowledge to the peculiar and va ried circumstances of every-day life.
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