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Letter to Thomas Gray (1766) [ ]
… short time mistress of the Regent, is now very old and stone blind, but retains all her vivacity, wit, memory, judgment, passions and agreeableness. She goes to operas, plays, suppers, and Versailles; gives suppers twice a week; has … on every subject is as just as possible; on every point of conduct as wrong as possible: for she is all love and hatred, passionate for her friends to enthusiasm, still anxious to be loved, I don't mean by lovers, and a vehement enemy, but … is false, artful, and insinuating beyond measure when it is her interest, but indolent and a coward. She never had any passion but gaming, and always loses. Forever paying court, the sole produce of a life of art is to get money from the …
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Dessein and his hotel (1768) [ Places ]
… up in the heart for a beggarly account of three or four louis d’ors, which is the most I can be overreached in?—Base passion! said I, turning myself about, as a man naturally does upon a sudden reverse of sentiment,—base, ungentle passion! thy hand is against every man, and every man’s hand against thee.—Heaven forbid! said she, raising her hand up …
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Theatres and Cafés in revolutionary Paris (1792) [ Practices ]
… comedy, since the laurels of tragedy are all our own. - There is but one Siddons, one transcendant genius, who has every passion of the human heart at her command, and the sublime graces of whose performance it is impossible not to feel, but …
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Natural Law (in Rousseau’s philosophy) [ Political & Moral philosophy ]
… de société’, pour lequel la nature l'a doté de sentiments particuliers (le penchant à faire plaisir à autrui, la compassion), de la raison, d'une faculté à établir et à suivre des règles, et d'un instrument privilégié, le langage. 5 La … conduit les hommes à la connaissance et à la pratique de leurs devoirs, elle a assez de pouvoir pour triompher des passions. Admettre la loi naturelle sous la forme d’un commandement dont nous pourrions prendre connaissance … sens. Mais cela ne suffit pas encore, on peut contester une définition de la vertu comme domination de la raison sur les passions. Car Hobbes ne nie le pouvoir de la raison sur les passions que pour le restituer intégralement dans le cadre de …
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David Hume [ Philosophy ]
… same disposition, which gives us this propensity, makes us enter deeply into each other's sentiments, and causes like passions and inclinations to run, as it were, by contagion, through the whole club or knot of companions.’ 4 To Hume, … social, and cheerful humour, capable of attachment, but little susceptible of enmity, and of great moderation in all my passions. Even my love of literary fame, my ruling passion, never soured my temper, notwithstanding my frequent disappointments’ ( Life of David Hume , 32-3). Image Legend …
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Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni [ Art and Literature / Reading & Writing ]
… 187-203. Garrick, who had inspired Diderot to write Paradoxe sur le Comédien ( Paradox of Acting ), shared Riccoboni’s passion for the theatre but also provided her with access to a valuable distribution network. Her novels were highly … with a copy of his History of England—, that humanity, despite their differences, were all motivated by the same passions. In 1769, tensions once again welled up when Garrick took offence at his friend’s remarks in her preface to the … dans le Dictionnaire philosophique dans son article ‘Goût‘ ainsi qu’à celle de David Hume dans les Dissertations sur les Passions, sur la Tragédie, sur la Règle du Goût. The correspondence she exchanged with Garrick and Liston over some …
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French epistolary novel [ Literary & Artistic genres / Reading & Writing ]
… d’une religieuse portugaise à un amant infidèle l’ayant abandonnée – cristallisent la tradition de la lettre d’amour passionnée, variation sur le modèle de la correspondance d’Héloïse et d’Abélard et des Héroïdes ovidiennes. La lettre devient ainsi l’instrument de fictionnalisation de la passion au moment même où celle-ci est vécue. L’anonymat qu’entretient Guilleragues renforce l’impression d’une …
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Flora Tristan [ Travel / Art and Literature ]
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Marie Du Deffand [ Art and Literature ]
… calendar. Madame du Deffand […] is now very old and stone blind, but retains all her vivacity, wit, memory, judgement, passions and agreeableness. She goes to operas, plays, suppers, and Versailles; gives suppers twice a week; has …
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