odd, often sublime and always natural, to know the human
louis vuitton damier ebene handbags heart and to make it speak; to
be a great poet without allowing any person in the piece to appear to be a poet; to know
language perfectly--to speak it with purity, with continuous harmony and without rhythm
ever taking anything from sense.
"Whoever," added he, "does not observe all these rules can produce one or two tragedies,
applauded at a theatre, but he will never be counted
ugg boots clearance in the ranks of good writers. There
are very few good tragedies; some are idylls in dialogue, well written and well rhymed,
others political reasonings which lull to sleep, or amplifications which repel; others
demoniac dreams in barbarous style, interrupted in sequence, with long apostrophes to the
gods, because they do not know how to speak to men, with false maxims, with bombastic
commonplaces!"
Candide listened with attention
nike jordan heels to this discourse, and conceived a great idea of the
speaker, and as the Marchioness had taken care to place him beside her, he leaned towards
her and took the liberty of asking who was the man who had spoken so well.
"He is a scholar," said the lady, "who does not play, whom the Abbe sometimes brings to
supper; he is perfectly at home among tragedies and
nike heels books, and he has written a tragedy
which was hissed, and a book of which nothing has ever been seen outside his bookseller's
shop excepting the copy which he dedicated to me."
"The great man!" said Candide. "He is another Pangloss!"
Then, turning towards him, he said:
"Sir, you think doubtless that all is for the best in the moral and physical world, and
that nothing could be otherwise than
chanel bags outlet it is?"
"I, sir!" answered the scholar, "I know nothing of all that; I find that all goes awry
with me; that no one knows either what is his rank, nor what is his condition, what he
does nor what he ought to do; and that except supper, which is always gay, and where
