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Article A FRENCH NOVELIST OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. ← Page 3 of 12 →
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A French Novelist Of The Seventeenth Century.
" The moon was at the full , " says our author ; " the sky was clear , ancl the ninth hour had just struck , when , returning from Clamart , near Paris ( where M . de Guizy the younger had regaled several of my friends and myself ) , the different conjectures inspired by this ball of saffron amused us during our homeward journey . Some of our partywho hacl bathed their
, eyes in the light of the great planet , decided that it was one of the loopholes of heaven ; others declared that it was the table of platina upon which Diana straightened the laced cravats of Apollo ; while a -third division suggested that it was probably the sun himself , who , divested of his rays during the night , peeped through a hole to see how the world was occupied in
his absence . ' Well , ' said I , ' as far as I am concerned , I am tempted to believe that the moon is a world like our own , and that we serve as a moon to theirs . ' Several of the party burst into a violent fit of laughter . - "And in the same way , perhaps , ' I added , ' some person is now ridiculing in the moon some other person who maintains that our globe is a world . ' " Need I remind my readers that Bergerac was waiting in the seventeenth century , when such ideas were regarded as the mere dreams of a maniac ?
: The joyous party separated , but the preceding conversation had deeply impressed the imagination of Cyrano ; ancl he had no sooner reached his apartment , than he hastened to consult a volume of Cardan * which lay upon his table , and which was accidentally open at the page AA'here the philosopher asserts that , on a certain evening , Avhen he was studying by the light of a candle
, he saw tivo old men of gigantic stature enter through the closed doors , Avho , upon being questioned , informed him that they Avere inhabitants of the moon , and immediately vanished . More ancl more interested in the Avild phantasy of his excited brain , Bergerac resolved , as he states , that he Avould make an effort to ascertainin his OAVU personif the nocturnal luminary
, , were in truth tenanted by sentient beings ; and having once formed this determination , he retired to his country-house , to devise some method of accomplishing his purpose . After sundry experiments , and as many failures , he relates that he finally covered his whole person with small phials filled with dew , upon which the sun beamed with such ardour , that
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A French Novelist Of The Seventeenth Century.
" The moon was at the full , " says our author ; " the sky was clear , ancl the ninth hour had just struck , when , returning from Clamart , near Paris ( where M . de Guizy the younger had regaled several of my friends and myself ) , the different conjectures inspired by this ball of saffron amused us during our homeward journey . Some of our partywho hacl bathed their
, eyes in the light of the great planet , decided that it was one of the loopholes of heaven ; others declared that it was the table of platina upon which Diana straightened the laced cravats of Apollo ; while a -third division suggested that it was probably the sun himself , who , divested of his rays during the night , peeped through a hole to see how the world was occupied in
his absence . ' Well , ' said I , ' as far as I am concerned , I am tempted to believe that the moon is a world like our own , and that we serve as a moon to theirs . ' Several of the party burst into a violent fit of laughter . - "And in the same way , perhaps , ' I added , ' some person is now ridiculing in the moon some other person who maintains that our globe is a world . ' " Need I remind my readers that Bergerac was waiting in the seventeenth century , when such ideas were regarded as the mere dreams of a maniac ?
: The joyous party separated , but the preceding conversation had deeply impressed the imagination of Cyrano ; ancl he had no sooner reached his apartment , than he hastened to consult a volume of Cardan * which lay upon his table , and which was accidentally open at the page AA'here the philosopher asserts that , on a certain evening , Avhen he was studying by the light of a candle
, he saw tivo old men of gigantic stature enter through the closed doors , Avho , upon being questioned , informed him that they Avere inhabitants of the moon , and immediately vanished . More ancl more interested in the Avild phantasy of his excited brain , Bergerac resolved , as he states , that he Avould make an effort to ascertainin his OAVU personif the nocturnal luminary
, , were in truth tenanted by sentient beings ; and having once formed this determination , he retired to his country-house , to devise some method of accomplishing his purpose . After sundry experiments , and as many failures , he relates that he finally covered his whole person with small phials filled with dew , upon which the sun beamed with such ardour , that