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Excerpt: Unconsious Comedians by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Unconsious Comedians by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publ... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Unconsious Comedians by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Penn... ...State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Unconscious Comedians by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley De... ...francs from the Funds, his pictures sell for their weight in 4 Unconsious Comedians gold, and (what seems to him more extraordinary than the invitati... ...s adventures to his cronies in the provinces, “two Parisians 6 Unconsious Comedians dressed in simple frock-coats, looking like nothing at all, calle... ...o, nevertheless, leave their porters in a condition worse than that of the Irish, in holes more dreadful than a mud cabin, and pay them less money to ...

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... to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to do it? Or the Irish…? Oops, I forgot…that attempt is still in progress. The Jew... ... better game, and had more fun playing it. Which team would win? The best comedians. The funniest players. The slyest. The best tacklers. The... ...bal crop failure. Without a high diversity food plants to live on you get the Irish potato famine, you get the Indonesian rice crop failure. China ... ...re of Ulster had deflected attention away from England herself, and the Ire of Irish, all their energy was wasted fighting Scots in Ulster, not Engla... ... ourselves and others laugh; that millions of people flock to see professional comedians; whose only job is to be funny and make other people laugh. ... ...ow much people lack a sense of their own humor. Having to go see professional comedians in order to laugh, because they are not able to be funny the... ... intellectual, unloving, uncaring, sneering humor. The way most civilized comedians get people to laugh is to either deliberately portray themsel... ...les, treacheries, betrayals… Everyone hated them. The Scots, the Welsh, the Irish, the French, the Spanish, the Dutch, the Germans hated them. And... ...ard work. They were cheated and abused. They were the English race of Black Irish, black Negroes, black races they had come to despise and hate. ...

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... of recreations, and blame those of injustice that refuse good and honest Comedians, or (as we call them) Players, to enter our good townes, and gru... ...rvell if we understand them not: no more doe we the Cornish, the Welch, or Irish. Yet have some boasted that they understood them, as Apollonius Thya... ...clothes. Our ancient Gaules were but slightly apparelled, no more are the Irish-men, our neighbours, in so cold a climate: which we may better judge... ...on the otherside, to meddle with it without love or bond of affection, as Comedians do, to play a common part of age and manners, without ought of t... ...as in Comedies, the spectators shall have as much or more pleasure as the Comedians. For my part, I no more acknowledge Venus without Cupid, then a ... ...nown or heard of about those quarters. Quintilian reporteth to have seene Comedians so farre ingaged in a sorrowfull part, that they wept after being...

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...them, but was not lucky. First off, I flew thirty yards, and then fouled an Irishman and brought him down — brought us both down, in fact. Next, I ha... ... a mixture of all three; back of them, they talk Latin, and ancient British, Irish, and Gaelic; and then back of these come billions and billions of ... ...alms of grace. I knew Charles the Second very well — one of the most popular comedians in the En glish section — draws first rate. There are better, ...

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...ease. “Look at that dog,” he cried to McT eague, showing him a finely-bred Irish setter. “That’s the dog that belonged to the duck on the avenue, the ... ...finished. “Don’t you love sad music, Mac?” she murmured. Then came the two comedians. They talked with fear- ful rapidity; their wit and repartee seem... ...rd of 73 Frank Norris the jokes, could have listened all night. After the comedians had gone out, the iron advertise- ment curtain was let down. “Wha... ...lf the audience left immediately afterward. However, while the unfortunate Irish come- dian went through his “act” to the backs of the departing peopl... ...s she let herself out of the back gate into the alley, Alexander, Marcus’s Irish setter, woke suddenly with a gruff bark. The collie who lived on the ... ...d now it was the infuriated barking of the dogs in the back yard—Alec, the Irish setter, and the col- lie that belonged to the branch post-office ragi... ...e affair. But suddenly there was a diversion. Alexander, Marcus Schouler’s Irish setter, whom his master had long since allowed the liberty of running...

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...long the top of the drab cushions, as if it had been used for a great many Irish funerals. It is possible I took a nap; I had been traveling all night... ...alcony railing and his hands in his pockets, was looking at the stars. “No Irish need apply,” said Tristram. Newman meditated a while. “As a foreigner... ...ublin? They must all come over there some day, and he would show them some Irish sport. He always went to Ireland for the fishing, and he came to Pari... ...ake his leave. The marquis went with him three steps into the hall. “Is he Irish?” asked Newman, nodding in the direction of the visitor. “His mother ... ...mother was the daughter of Lord Finucane,” said the marquis; “he has great Irish estates. Lady Bridget, in the complete absence of male heirs, either ... ...that was all the grandeur he had. I think he was like what I have heard of comedians; not that I have ever seen one. But I know he painted his face. H...

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... his religion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T... ... but formerly a missionary, gave the mountain its gracious name. He was an Irishman, son of an Irish king—there were thirty What Is Man and Other Ess... ...WHEN YOU THINK OF IT, that you may list all the celebrated Englishmen, Irishmen, and Scotchmen of modern times, clear back to the first Tudors—a l... ...the celebrated ecclesias tics in the list; all the celebrated tragedians, comedians, singers, dancers, orators, judges, lawyers, poets, dramatists, h...

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...l-woven heads and marble architecture; and a Watteau group of lute-playing comedians, lounging by a fountain in a sunlit glade. Each evanescent pictur... ...She lay late in bed, refusing the coffee and fried eggs which the friendly Irish servant thrust through her door, and hating the intimate domestic noi... ...e Reynolds dress when she heard a tap at her door, and the red fist of the Irish maid-servant thrust in a belated letter. Carrying it to the light, Li...

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...d to quit the realm in a month. This affair made a great noise; and if the comedians lost an establishment by their boldness and folly, they who drove... ...oncluded by naming the principal,— namely, that for want of new pieces the comedians gave old ones, and, amongst others, those of Scarron, which were ... ...aslin, who had the command of our cavalry, put himself at the head of some Irish battalions which under him did wonders. Although continually occupied... ...to have that gate free and open during the night to let in assistance. The Irish seconded so well this attack, that it was at length suc- cessful. A t... ...rtheless, thought of withdrawing his troops to the castle, when Mahony, an Irish officer who had fought bravely as a lion all day, proposed to go and ... ...edies of Moliere were thought of, and were played by the King’s musicians, comedians for the nonce. Madame de Maintenon introduced, too, the Marechal ... ...arged 695 Saint-Simon with this duty Colonel Douglas (who belonged to the Irish (regiments) in the pay of France), who, under the protection of his n...

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... boys left to themselves will furnish richer fun than any troop of trained comedians. No: no Art arrives at the artlessness of nature in matters of co... ...onsense! There’s no so much harm in being young, here and there. I knew an Irish lady was married at fourteen. Her daughter married close over fourtee... ...priate illustrations to the ballad-monger’s repertory. Clare sang a little Irish air. Her duty done, she marched from the piano. Mothers are rarely de...

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...me Cropole, already in promiscuous commentary with her neighbors of both sexes. Cropole was feeding their gossip with his own personal remarks, withou... ... the gentleman, ignorant that he was elbowing compatriots, he did not pay any attention to the little troop. The aid-de-camp settled his guests in a t... ...ain, and said: “I do not think that can be the case, for my verses have never been printed.” “Well, then, it must have been the tragedy which informed...

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...iece was the newest thing in the advanced drama. There was Mr Hugh Law, an Irish member, son of an Irish Chancellor, presenting a keen and joyous fron... ...d not all want to part with the books. For instance, Mr Hugh Law, being an Irishman, with an Irishman’s sense of how to behave like a gallant gentle- ... ...ase has often been made offensively im- proper on the stage by popular low comedians, with the effect of changing the whole character and mean- ing of... ...production of the play; and every possible effort was made to persuade the Irish public that the performance would be an outrage to their religion, an... ...cation, the most turbulent audi- ence in the kingdom. The directors of the Irish Na- tional Theatre, Lady Gregory and Mr. William Butler Yeats, rose t...

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...uestioned by the laws. Neither is it recorded that the writings of those old comedians were suppressed, though the acting of them were forbid; and tha... ... learned Friend, unfor tunately drowned in his passage from Chester on the Irish Seas, 1637; and, by occasion, foretells the ruin of our cor rupted...

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...es, holy mountebanks, tumblers of beads, mumblers of ave-marias, spiritual comedians, sham saints, hermits, all of them poor rogues who, like the herm... ...cybal, or spyrathe? ’Tis Hibernian saffron, I protest. Hah, hah, hah! ’tis Irish saffron, by Shaint Pautrick, and so much for this time. Selah. Let’s ...