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Anecdotes Of Moliere.
Moliere was g ifted with a generous and compassionate heart . One day Baron , the noted comedian , told him of an actor in extreme indigence and misery , wirose name was Mondorge . I know him , said Moliere ; he was my school companion in Languedoc : Fie is a very honest man : —How much do you think I ought to give him ? Four pistoles , answered Baron , after some hesitation . Very well , said Molierehere are the four pistoles ; and g ive him these twenty
, in your own name . Baron was confounded at such uncommon generosity . ' Mondorge appeared ; Moliere embraced hiirt , consoled hirn , and added to the money a magnificent stage-dress , proper for the tragical parts peculiar to the genius of this actor . One day Moliere was returning from Anteuil with Charpentier , the famous musician ; they were both in a hired coach . Moliere seeing
a poor indigent wretch , gave him half a pistole , and then ordered the coachman to go on . In a few minutes the poor man comes up quite out of breath , stops the coach , and addressing Moliere , said , You have surely made : a mistake , you have given me a piece of gold instead of silver . Moliere , surprised , turns' to his companion , saying ,
Heavens ! is it possible ! l . did not think virtue could have taken refuge in the breast of so poor an object ! — No , my friend , said he to the beggar , it is no mistake ; here is another of superior value to the former ; and sosaying-put a pistole into his hand , and then drove off . . - ' v .--. . ., ; ¦ , ¦ .: '; s Moliere used to say , that contempt was a pill a man might- easily ¦ ¦
swallow , but not chew without making a" wry face . " . ; - ., .. It would appear by the following anecdote , that Moliere had been appointed one of the king ' s' valets de " chambre . — One day ,. says the author of his life , it was his turn to make the king ' s bed ; another i-alet , who was to be his assistant , refused to help him , saying , he would have nothing to do with a comedian . Belockanother valet
, , a man of wit , and a poet , on the instant came up to Moliere , Permit me the honour , Sir , says he , of aiding you in making his majesty ' s bed . This-adventure coming to the king ' s ears , he was pleased with the behaviourof Belock , but so much dissatisfied with the first , that he ordered him immediately to be erased from the court-list ; so great a favourite was Moliere .
In Ins youth the poet had begun to translate Lucretius , and would soon have finished the work , had not an unforeseen misfortune prevented him , —One of his domestics had taken a number of sheets of that poem to curl hishair with . Molicre ,, who was naturally choleric in the first heat of his passion , threw the rest into the fire .. In order to make the translation more perfect , he had rendered the philosophical conversations in proseand till the remaining beautiful
de-, scriptions of that fine poem in verse . Moliere always read his plays to an old woman of-his house , called Laforet ; and when any parts , that Ire thought pleasant , did not please her , he never failed to correct them , because he had always experienced that those pa ' its were never applauded when they were not corrected . One evening the poet , in order to make trial of the qj $
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Anecdotes Of Moliere.
Moliere was g ifted with a generous and compassionate heart . One day Baron , the noted comedian , told him of an actor in extreme indigence and misery , wirose name was Mondorge . I know him , said Moliere ; he was my school companion in Languedoc : Fie is a very honest man : —How much do you think I ought to give him ? Four pistoles , answered Baron , after some hesitation . Very well , said Molierehere are the four pistoles ; and g ive him these twenty
, in your own name . Baron was confounded at such uncommon generosity . ' Mondorge appeared ; Moliere embraced hiirt , consoled hirn , and added to the money a magnificent stage-dress , proper for the tragical parts peculiar to the genius of this actor . One day Moliere was returning from Anteuil with Charpentier , the famous musician ; they were both in a hired coach . Moliere seeing
a poor indigent wretch , gave him half a pistole , and then ordered the coachman to go on . In a few minutes the poor man comes up quite out of breath , stops the coach , and addressing Moliere , said , You have surely made : a mistake , you have given me a piece of gold instead of silver . Moliere , surprised , turns' to his companion , saying ,
Heavens ! is it possible ! l . did not think virtue could have taken refuge in the breast of so poor an object ! — No , my friend , said he to the beggar , it is no mistake ; here is another of superior value to the former ; and sosaying-put a pistole into his hand , and then drove off . . - ' v .--. . ., ; ¦ , ¦ .: '; s Moliere used to say , that contempt was a pill a man might- easily ¦ ¦
swallow , but not chew without making a" wry face . " . ; - ., .. It would appear by the following anecdote , that Moliere had been appointed one of the king ' s' valets de " chambre . — One day ,. says the author of his life , it was his turn to make the king ' s bed ; another i-alet , who was to be his assistant , refused to help him , saying , he would have nothing to do with a comedian . Belockanother valet
, , a man of wit , and a poet , on the instant came up to Moliere , Permit me the honour , Sir , says he , of aiding you in making his majesty ' s bed . This-adventure coming to the king ' s ears , he was pleased with the behaviourof Belock , but so much dissatisfied with the first , that he ordered him immediately to be erased from the court-list ; so great a favourite was Moliere .
In Ins youth the poet had begun to translate Lucretius , and would soon have finished the work , had not an unforeseen misfortune prevented him , —One of his domestics had taken a number of sheets of that poem to curl hishair with . Molicre ,, who was naturally choleric in the first heat of his passion , threw the rest into the fire .. In order to make the translation more perfect , he had rendered the philosophical conversations in proseand till the remaining beautiful
de-, scriptions of that fine poem in verse . Moliere always read his plays to an old woman of-his house , called Laforet ; and when any parts , that Ire thought pleasant , did not please her , he never failed to correct them , because he had always experienced that those pa ' its were never applauded when they were not corrected . One evening the poet , in order to make trial of the qj $