| 单词 | Rabelais |
| 例句 | Likewise, a six-foot man cannot be scaled up to thirty feet, Rabelais notwithstanding. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This is quite different from the world of Rabelais. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Before returning to Rabelais, let’s consider two hanging wires of equal cross section. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Francois Rabelais. He was this poet. And his last words were ‘I go to seek a Great Perhaps.’ Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z One day Rabelais heard God's laughter, Kundera fancies, and set the novel on its course, in opposition to thought as philosophers or theologians understand it, with its pursuit of a consistent truth. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z A Georgia Rabelais, Mr. Crews was renowned for his darkly comic, bitingly satirical, freakishly populated and almost preternaturally violent novels. ArtsBeat: Harry Crews, A Darkly Comic Novelist, Dies at 76 2012-03-29T20:28:13Z And in Rabelais as the best of all vehicles for "nothing is to be respected". Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z Rabelais, coincidentally, worked as a physician at the original Grand Hôtel-Dieu in the 1530s. Food fantasia: Lyon’s new gastronomy centre puts the world on a plate 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z All these initial chapters of “Monkey King” exhibit a rollicking exuberance, somewhat like Rabelais’s hyperbolic accounts of the giants Gargantua and Pantagruel. Review | The action-packed saga ‘Monkey King: Journey to the West’ gets a modern take 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z Rabelais gave the novel a grand start in life, rooting it in immoderation, but it's not only by virtue of making us laugh cruelly and without constraint that we call a novel comic. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z If Rabelais’s infant giant Pantagruel had played with Lego bricks, his nursery might have looked like this. Huang Yong Ping Brings 'Empires' of Globalization to Paris 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Sites of revolution had to be dealt with, the most flagrant being the dingy warren of medieval streets, familiar to Villon and Rabelais, on the Île de la Cité. The Invention of Paris by Eric Hazan and Parisians, by Graham Robb 2010-04-16T23:07:00Z Maybe Pudge's signature "I go to seek a Great Perhaps" in the style of the poet François Rabelais is a tad cliché, but aren't we all searching for a Great Perhaps? Looking for Alaska by John Green - review 2013-03-22T09:00:00Z In the meantime, Rabelais was dead, so why hold a grudge? Reading Racist Literature 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z He has already been likened to Rabelais and Apuleius, but he has been likened to Mrs Gaskell too. Howard Jacobson: In praise of bad boys' books 2012-10-05T21:55:17Z Less apocryphal, it seems, was his asking the registrar if he could swear his vows on the works of Rabelais rather than on the Bible. Amateurs in Eden by Joanna Hodgkin ? review 2012-02-10T22:45:01Z As he continues, Müller also considers the place of paper in Rabelais’s “Gargantua and Pantagruel,” Cervantes’s “Don Quixote” and Defoe’s “Robinson Crusoe.” Paper, books and the art of collecting 2015-03-25T04:00:00Z The narrator, name-dropping Heidegger, Rabelais and Walter Benjamin, may be dismayed over Britain’s collusion with the United States military-industrial complex and capitalist interpretations of Darwinism, but beatific agrarian tableaus and lingering close-ups of flowers prevail. | 'Robinson in Ruins': ?Robinson in Ruins? From Patrick Keiller ? Review? 2012-01-11T22:49:41Z If Rabelais is the most immoderate of writers, he is also the cruellest, rejoicing in trickery and malice, sending people to their discomfiture or death with an oath and a jest. Howard Jacobson on taking comic novels seriously 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z French President Nicolas Sarkozy proclaimed him an artist in the class of Balzac and Rabelais — "a great auteur and a great filmmaker." Claude Chabrol, French New Wave Director, Dies at 80 2010-09-15T18:45:00Z A Georgia-born Rabelais, Mr. Crews was renowned for darkly comic, bitingly satirical, grotesquely populated and almost preternaturally violent novels. Harry Crews, Writer of Dark Fiction, Is Dead at 76 2012-03-30T05:32:16Z The academy noted that Oe’s work has been strongly influenced by Western writers, including Dante, Poe, Rabelais, Balzac, Eliot and Sartre. Japan’s Kenzaburo Oe, awarded Nobel for poetic fiction, dies 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Many doctors, too, have written fiction, quite a long and interesting list, among them Rabelais, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Céline and William Carlos Williams, all practicing physicians who were also writing. ‘If This Book Is Not Expressing Everything, What Am I Doing With My Life?’ 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Read Rabelais, he says, to see that French itself was built on patois and vernacular tongues. Emmanuel Macron wants to redefine French culture 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z As I drove away, I recalled the words of another native son—one perhaps more famous than Rabelais—Honoré de Balzac. The Best-Value French Wines for Your Money 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z When Jacob Riis published his photographs of late 19th-century urban poverty, he invoked French author François Rabelais’s words: “One half the world does not know how the other half lives.” San Francisco mulls state of emergency over homelessness. But will it help? 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z The first known reference to toilet paper in the West does not appear until the 16th century, when satirist François Rabelais mentions that it doesn't work particularly well at its assigned task. Toilet Issue: Anthropologists Uncover All the Ways We ve Wiped 2013-03-08T13:15:00.273Z And Sainte-Beuve was indirectly justifying his own method when he pointed to the example of Voltaire, Molière, La Fontaine, and Rabelais and Villon, the great ancestors. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z The incident has often been used in comedy since Rabelais employed it. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z In the country of Rabelais, of Montaigne, of Voltaire, we are inclined to smile at everything that relates to the marvellous, to tales of enchantment, the extravagances of occultism, the mysteries of magic. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z It is constantly forgotten by unfavourable critics of Rabelais that his extravagances were to a great extent, at any rate, quite natural outbursts of animal spirits. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2012-03-28T02:00:26.907Z The writings of Rabelais were only directed against the clergy, but the writings of Montaigne were directed against the system of which the clergy were the offspring.” Theological Essays 2012-03-27T02:00:21.867Z In Rabelais I seem to see the embryonic humour of a world coming to the birth and not yet fully formed. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z Perhaps the all-pervading influence of Rabelais in that age may have made French satire more good-humored. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z Rabelais sometimes appeared, still loving the perfumes of savory viands as of old. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Nobody, even in his own day, who knew Rabelais at all could fail to detect the almost servile following of manner in great things and in small which Tristram displays. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2012-03-28T02:00:26.907Z Ridicule has been a weapon in the hands of all the great liberators, Luther, Erasmus, Rabelais, Bruno, Swift, but none used it more effectively than Voltaire. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z Rabelais wrote when the human passions were emerging from restraint, and it was part of his humour to paint the lusty youth of the world in colours of grotesque exaggeration. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z I am hipped, my Rabelais; we must have a spree. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z The "Quart d'heure de Rabelais," if translated into Anglo-French, may be taken to express a bad time of it with the roughs in Trafalgar Square, i.e., a mauvais quart d'heure de Rabble—eh? Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, December 3, 1887 2012-03-09T03:00:20.130Z He has neither the frank laughter of Aristophanes and Rabelais, nor the frank passion of Catullus and Donne. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2012-03-28T02:00:26.907Z But they are abominable heretics, to be burnt by all the devils, as Master François Rabelais says; and that is why I do not meddle with their affairs.” Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z I cannot see what harm can come to a mature mind from either Rabelais or Sterne. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z He was a keen student of Rabelais and Montaigne, and familiarized himself with 16th-century French. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z I read 'Wuthering Heights' at the same time and Rabelais a little time afterwards. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z She wants to know something of the traditions of the race, the great men of the past, Homer and Shakespeare and Rabelais and Swift. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z He was a kind of religious Rabelais; and yet a man can defend Luther in his attack upon the church without justifying his obscenity. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z It was the birthplace of Sir Thomas Urquhart, the translator of Rabelais. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, I have received valuable help in writing the chapter on the translation of Rabelais. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z The majority can laugh with Rabelais, though they have not the idealism which created Theleme. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z He is an infectious fellow: if you read him much you will find yourself trying to imitate him; there is no harm in doing so: he himself caught the trick from Rabelais. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z Swift and Rabelais had the coarseness of a robust English sailor; at their worst they are simply abominable, just as Tennyson at his worst is effeminate and silly. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Rabelais writes English, 21; puns in English, 21. The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century 2011-11-04T02:00:24.773Z His translation of Rabelais is probably the most brilliant feat of the kind ever accomplished, and casts all his own original writings into the shade. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z Many great authors have been indebted to him,—Rabelais, Montaigne, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau, Shakspeare, Bacon, and Dryden, among the number. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z You have studied Rabelais," said Mr. Punch, when the fire had subsided, "and I am sure that you will continue to be guided by his wisdom. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 62, January 1, 1872 2011-10-18T02:00:20.750Z He is doubtless sometimes flat, sometimes coarse, as all humorists since Rabelais have been. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z The modern spirit can hardly be said to arise before Rabelais and Ronsard. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z But the imperfect state of his translation of Rabelais is perhaps the best evidence of the inaccuracy of the current belief.... Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z From them Virgil, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Rabelais, Molière, Shakspeare, Calderon, and a host of others have drawn their inspiration. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z The thoughts of Boccaccio, Rabelais, Shakespeare,—whose works are commonly expurgated,—are so modern that they are not generally granted the allowances conceded to writers whose ideas are as antiquated as their words. The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. II. (of II) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England 2011-10-12T02:00:47.957Z Strange fate this for a writer for whom Charles Nodier claimed the honour of being, after Rabelais and Molière, one of the most original geniuses that French literature ever saw. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z But fortunately the romancical writers of the 16th century had not Rabelais for their sole model, but were also influenced by the simple and straightforward style of the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Mr Smith remarks, "This looks something like an imitation of Rabelais in his account of the death of Philemon." Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z Imagine the works of Rabelais shamelessly illustrated by a master hand! The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature 2011-10-04T02:00:18.533Z —The story of the frozen and thawed words in Rabelais' Pantagruel, book iv. c. Notes and Queries, Number 84, June 7, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc. 2011-09-12T02:00:27.427Z Genius apart, merely by his knowledge and use of his mother-tongue, Hugo is the Rabelais of modern days. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z "Oh!" said Mary, "that is in the best taste, and Rabelais brought Latin into fashion." The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z The reference is to the following passages in Rabelais, who alludes to the story no fewer than three times. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z Memories of Charles VII., of Jeanne d'Arc, and of Fran�ois Rabelais are inextricably mixed in the guide-book accounts of Chinon; but their respective histories are not so involved as would appear. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z At times, however, the unreasonableness of some of the applicants was too much even for Rabelais in his easy chair. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z No one supposes that this legend is borrowed from Rabelais, and it seems even more improbable that the Huarochiri hastily borrowed m�rchen from the Spaniards, and converted them before 1600 into national myths. Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) 2011-07-22T02:00:19.110Z If we turn to literature, Rabelais, among the French, a sober man who drank nothing but water, is thought of as a lover of good cheer and a persistent sot. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z In the second volume of Bohn's edition of Rabelais, the frontispiece is a half-length portrait of the translator, evidently reproduced from the above. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z All this is a great pity, for Rabelais excites in the minds of most people a greater curiosity than perhaps any other medi�val man of letters that the world has known. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z This city of the popes, the terre papale, as Rabelais called it, attracted me almost as much as that other city of the popes, ancient Rome. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z Rabelais and his followers concurrently effected a complete revolution in fiction. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z Compare the style of one writer with another only two centuries later, or Rabelais with Voltaire! Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z For when imposture, folly, and humbug grow too rank and noisome, there arise, it can scarcely be by accident, men like Lucian, Rabelais, and Voltaire, whose calling it is to cut them down. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z Some one has said, and certainly not without reason, that every Frenchman has a touch of Rabelais and of Voltaire in his make-up. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z What Rabelais was to the supporters of theology," says Buckle, "that was Montaigne to the theology itself. Heresy: Its Utility And Morality A Plea And A Justification 2011-05-31T02:00:37.797Z In spite of the indefinable grace of his obsolete language, one can hardly read twenty pages of Rabelais in succession. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z Warton and his followers have obscured a true genius for exuberant humour, keen irony, and exquisite ridicule, such as Rabelais and Swift would not have disdained, and have not always surpassed. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Rabelais, indeed, laughed at it; but then he laughed at many things which the people of his time did not think absurd. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z If Rabelais had not rendered popular Chinon and the Chinonais the public would have yet to learn of this delightful pays, in spite of that famous first meeting between Charles VII. and Jeanne d'Arc. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z He might have killed us; and, besides that, I can tell you we did kick up a shindy in the Rue Rabelais. Bijou 2011-05-25T02:00:22.743Z Now come Rabelais, boldly declared by Coleridge one of the great creative minds of literature; and Montaigne, with those essays of his, still living, and, indeed, certain always to live. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z He sits before you silent as Buddha, And then you say This man is Rabelais. Songs and Satires 2011-05-20T02:00:37.050Z Never was there a more plausible, and seldom, I am persuaded, a less appropriate line than the thousand times quoted 'Rabelais laughing in his easy chair' of Mr Pope. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z Though one cannot feast his eye upon the spot of Rabelais's birth, historians agree that it took place at Chinon in 1483. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z "Because Bijou had the insane idea of wanting to go down the Rue Rabelais with the coach; and so M. de Clagny went—the old fool." Bijou 2011-05-25T02:00:22.743Z Of the life of Fran�ois Rabelais, the man, these few facts will be sufficient to know. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z His religion, at best, is an anxious wish; like that of Rabelais, “a great Perhaps.” Life of Robert Burns 2011-05-11T02:00:21.043Z François Rabelais was born in Touraine, according to the date usually given, and which there is no reason to question, in the same year as Luther and Raphael, A.D. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z You observe, respect for your Reverence prevents my offering you the Rabelais parody. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z You said, 'Let us go down Rue Rabelais, I should like to see it.' Bijou 2011-05-25T02:00:22.743Z The work is replete with evidences of Rabelais’s learning. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z He saw the living thread of literary history, running, a pulsating stream, from Rabelais to Flaubert. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Translation of Rabelais HE foundation on which Sir Thomas Urquhart's literary fame securely rests is his translation into English of the first three books of the works of Rabelais. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z THE FAT MAN—No, but Rabelais sees her home after the show. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z Folengo is frequently quoted and still more frequently copied by Rabelais. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z Here, then, is Rabelais’s own expression, sincere or jocular, as you choose to take it, for what constitutes the essence of his writing. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z This was, you observe, between the births of Spenser and Shakespeare; and Rabelais was just dead. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The translation of Rabelais by Sir Thomas Urquhart is his great literary achievement. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z I hear Hazlitt’s lectures regularly, his last was on Gray, Collins, Young, etc., and he gave a very fine piece of discriminating Criticism on Swift, Voltaire, and Rabelais. Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends 2011-03-30T02:00:14.620Z The name was enough; they could not dine elsewhere, and Ambrose felt that he was honouring the memory of the great Rabelais. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z It is impossible to exaggerate the mad, rollicking humor, sticking at nothing, either in thought or in expression, with which especially this last book of Rabelais’s work is written. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z If we were among the Academies, we should argue like the characters in Rabelais. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Sometimes, too, as Mr W. F. Smith, a very distinguished student of Rabelais, remarks, "in translating a single word of the French he often empties all the synonyms given by Cotgrave into his version." Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z It fell into the hands of Octave Uzanne, who instantly ordered Rabelais and Boccaccio to "shove over" on the immortal seats and make room by their side for the author. Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin 2011-03-09T03:00:47.587Z He was a well-educated man; but in his heart of hearts he thought that Rabelais, Maria Monk, Gay Life in Paris and La Terre all came to much the same thing. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z Rabelais, as if to break the blow and to appear unconscious of what he has done, writes a chapter or two of pure buffoonery.” French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Rabelais was perhaps the greatest of all the encyclopædic scholars; and he, as you know, wrote the most remarkable book that has ever been written. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z He had left no source of information unexplored, few aspects of life unobserved, and, in the translation of Rabelais, he found full exercise for his multiform attainments. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z By this ingenious method the "Odyssey," "Oedipus," "Morte D'Arthur," "Kubla Khan," "Don Quixote," and "Rabelais" immediately are proven fine literature; a host of other esteemed works merely, if you like, good literature. Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin 2011-03-09T03:00:47.587Z I have never read even in the most filthy pages of Rabelais, or in the savagest passages of Swift, anything which approached the revolting cruelty of those few lines. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z The truth seems to us to be, that Rabelais’s supreme taste, like his supreme power, lay in the line of humorous satire. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Rabelais had all science, but he had all life too. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z He says: "Then I went indoors, brought out a loaf, Half a cheese, and a bottle of Chablis; Lay on the grass, and forgot the loaf Over a jolly chapter of Rabelais." Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z In Cervantes he finds the greater deftness, the finer artifice, but he believes the conception of Rabelais the higher because it is the more remote. Arthur Machen A Novelist of Ecstasy and Sin 2011-03-09T03:00:47.587Z It was written in the manner and in the language of Rabelais. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z But what a contrast, in point of decency, between Rabelais and Erasmus. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z What Sir Piercie Shafton talks is a mixture of the style of these French romances, with the ostentation of Sir Fopling Flutter and the extravagances of the Scotch translator of Rabelais. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z Some have turned over Rabelais and searched for the jolly chapter in vain, and have, perhaps, attributed their failure to the want of a bottle of Chablis. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z There can be no doubt that, as regards the literary form which he affected most, he took hints from Rabelais as the greatest original in the realm of the absurd. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z One sees the spirit of this in Rabelais, for example. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z Catching, however, at the name, La Fontaine, as he came to himself for a moment, betrayed the secret of his absent thought by asking, “Do you think St. Augustine had as much wit as Rabelais?” French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z In France it was necessary for a Rabelais to hide his free-thinking under a disguise of revolting and unintelligible jargon. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z The Sorbonne and the Parliaments might have been moved by ultra-orthodox opponents to prosecute Rabelais on this account. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z Then again, how do I hate all that unmeaning, irrelevant clatter about what Rabelais or Shakespeare or the ancients & their times tolerated in the way of coarseness or plainness of speech. The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman 2011-02-26T03:00:49.377Z He also, strange to relate, found no ecstasy in Meredith or the later Hardy novels, and in no intellectual productions marked with liberal thought except those of Rabelais. The Literature of Ecstasy 2011-02-16T03:00:39.843Z She hears that son of hers read “some chapters out of Rabelais,” “which were enough,” she declares, “to make us die with laughing.” French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Rabelais dissatisfies him; Scarron dissatisfies him; Molière, Swift, Sterne, not to mention others, dissatisfy him. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z Such is the dream which floated before the mind of Rabelais, but, unhappily, it is still an airy fancy, and has never received a local habitation and a name. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z Continuing, he says: "The ceremony of taking the M. D. degree is very imposing; if only the putting on and off, seven times, the old gown of the famous Rabelais." The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z And it may be that the queer music of Rabelais could be echoed, at least, in English by the use of assonance. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z Rabelais closes his story with jocose irreverent application of Scripture—a manner of his which gives some color to the tradition of a biblical pun made by him on his death-bed. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Some of these have already found their way to the table; Stevenson, Hearn, Rabelais, Villon, Borrow and some others. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z It has now been thoroughly demonstrated that Gargantua was a popular and folk-lore character long before Rabelais' time, and that he assumed the character only in order to give popular vogue to his own ideas. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z It was different in the days of Petrarch and of Rabelais. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z I love to see beauty in its youth devote itself to the cult of Venus, and put in practice the saying of Rabelais' Thalamite—'Do what you please!' The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z It would be unpardonable to dismiss Rabelais without first making our readers know Panurge by, at least, a few traits of his character and conduct. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z We drove down into Chinon, past the house where it is said that Rabelais was born, and saw his statue, and one of Joan which was not very pleasing. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z It is always a good sign when Rabelais becomes popular in France, for men are usually thinking more deeply than before. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z There was old Rabelais, for instance, and his imitators, and even Tristram here I suppose you could hardly recommend for a Sunday-school.” The Carleton Case 2011-01-24T03:00:17.240Z They should have said, like our dear Rabelais, 'an Abbey of Thalamia,' or 'a Monastery of Cyprus, of which the Queen is the Mother Abbess.' The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century 2011-01-27T03:00:40.940Z Rabelais describes his accomplishments in a long strain of discourse, from which we purge our selection to follow—thereby transforming Panurge into a comparatively proper and virtuous person: French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z He belonged to various clubs, such as The Beefsteak, The Rabelais, The Kinsmen; but during the last few years of his life he frequented only the Royal Thames Yacht Club. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z Rabelais is a most difficult man to sum up for those who are not French. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z The supreme exponents of the Renaissance as manifested in literature were, without doubt, Ariosto in Italy, Rabelais in France, Cervantes in Spain, Camoens in Portugal, Erasmus in the Netherlands and Shakespeare in England. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z In this satire he was inspired in a great measure by Rabelais, of whom he was an intelligent disciple. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Rabelais sinned against manners more than he sinned against 33 morals. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Swift and Sterne are the acknowledged masters of British humor, as Rabelais and Voltaire are the personification of French wit. English Pharisees and French Crocodiles and Other Anglo-French Typical Characters 2010-12-20T17:12:04.833Z Rabelais ran the whole gamut of life in his time. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Rabelais said Angola’s government was blaming the separatist group for the attack. 2010-01-10T00:28:00Z Angola's Information Minister Manuel Rabelais said Friday that eight team members and one Angolan were injured. 2010-01-09T19:10:00Z The foregoing is one of the most purely sweet imaginative passages in Rabelais’s works. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z One hopes that his excuse was as valid as that of the monk in Rabelais. A Cursory History of Swearing Rabelais was writing not for physicians nor even medical students, but for the educated general public of the time. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Angola’s Information Minister Manuel Rabelais said Friday that eight team members and one Angolan were injured. 2010-01-10T00:28:00Z Rabelais says it must not, and the author of "Hudibras" says it must not; in fact there is an abundance of testimony to this effect, extending over centuries. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources It is of the gravest historical significance that Rabelais and Montaigne, but especially that Montaigne, should, to such an extent, for now three full centuries, have been furnishing the daily intellectual food of Frenchmen. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z “A man may catch larks if the heavens fall,” commented Walter in Rabelais’s phrase. The Great Mogul To read Machiavelli, Guicciardini's "Ricordi," Benvenuto Cellini's "Autobiography" and Rabelais is to see the contradictions that there are in this microcosm man better than is possible in any other way. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Rabelais was not more cunning when he hit upon his stratagem for getting carried to Paris. Friend Mac Donald Butler's "Hudibras" is overflowing with proverbial allusions, and so, too, are the writings of Rabelais, Montaigne, Cervantes, and many another who might be instanced. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources We are bound to admit that, if any writings whatever were to be suppressed on that ground, the writings of Rabelais are certainly entitled to be of the number. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z This was how Rabelais should be read: the very pages seemed to glitter like wine. Sinister Street, vol. 2 This might very well be expected, for Rabelais invented two surgical instruments, one for the reduction of fractures of the thigh bone and the other for operating in cases of strangulated hernia. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z According to Cotgrave, Rabelais uses brize in the sense of bise, the name of a dry north or north-east wind prevalent in Switzerland and the bordering parts of France, Italy and Germany. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" He would, therefore, remain at home until the day grew cooler, and study Regis's translation of Rabelais, which he had long had in mind to illustrate. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. II We probably never should have had “Gulliver’s Travels” from Swift if we had not first had Gargantua and Pantagruel from Rabelais. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z "Rabelais," Brydone read slowly, as he saw the volumes on the shelves. Plashers Mead A Novel Rabelais' misunderstood genius, his life, evidence for tolerance of time, modern studies and influence. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Rabelais, Villon, Shakespeare, William Blake, would have known one another by their speech. The Cutting of an Agate Rabelais and his Followers 183 Fiction at the beginning of the Sixteenth Century. A Short History of French Literature Swift, however, contrasts Rabelais as well as resembles him. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Young Théophile showed marked preference for the so-called authors of the Decadence—Claudianus, Martial, Petronius, and others; also for the old French writers, especially Villon and Rabelais, whom he says he knew by heart. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 Rabelais is usually not taken seriously, except by students of his works who have given them much attention, but his books contain a number of most interesting contributions to this subject. The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Flaubert says somewhere, ‘There are things in Hugo, as in Rabelais, that I could have mended, things badly built, but then what thrusts of power beyond the reach of conscious art!’ The Cutting of an Agate The influence of Rabelais on the one hand, of the Heptameron on the other, is observable in almost all the work of the same kind which the second half of the sixteenth century produced. A Short History of French Literature Whereas Rabelais is simply monstrous in invention, Swift in invention submits himself loyally to law. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Rabelais is big hearted if not big in any other way. Probability Rabelais "science without conscience is the ruination of the soul." The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z Like Rabelais, he was a humorist, not a wit, and his satires suffered accordingly. Allan Ramsay Famous Scots Series There seems to have been at the time something not unlike a serious idea that the book was made up from unpublished papers of Rabelais himself. A Short History of French Literature Voltaire put the matter with his usual felicity—Swift is Rabelais in his senses. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Rabelais flicks the paper with a silly grin and tells me to look on page four. Probability His creations live, move and have their being about us constantly, like those of Homer, Virgil, Chaucer, Rabelais, Cervantes, Shakespeare, Bunyan, Moli�re and Sir Walter Scott. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" And there is Rabelais, with his huge buffoonery, and the earnest eyes intent on freedom, which look out at us in the midst of the zany's tumblings and indecencies. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 His friendship with Marot and Rabelais had in each case an unhappy end. A Short History of French Literature It is confirmed, as we learn from Le Grand, by the French writers; and even Rabelais, near three centuries later, enumerates the whale among the dishes eaten by the Gastrolatres. The Lay of Havelok the Dane The bank part is closed but some slavies are working late as people in banks always do and we go in and Rabelais gets a wad of money and we leave. Probability Deny who may that Rabelais Is first in wit and learning, And yet all smile and marvel while His brilliant leaves they're turning. Second Book of Verse While this is not meant to be a nursery-book, it has been made virginibus puerisque, and for this reason, selections from Boccaccio, Rabelais and Balzac could not find their way into these pages. Devil Stories An Anthology In the latter this was due to a pirated edition of Pantagruel and Gargantua, which reproduced expressions that Rabelais, in the rising storm of persecution, had been anxious to modify. A Short History of French Literature His writings are remarkable for vigorous and racy Saxon, as full of vituperation as Rabelais's, and as terse and simple as Swift's. Old and New London Volume I But Rabelais, even when he's looped, won't take us into the past or far into the future. Probability A statue of Rabelais, who was born in the vicinity of the town, stands on the river-quay. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Rabelais is among his masters, and so is Aretino, "one of the wittiest knaves that ever God made." The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare Before Descartes there are three masters of this latter style, and three only, Rabelais, Calvin, and Montaigne. A Short History of French Literature The objection to most imitations of Rabelais is that they lack the unforced wit and humor of the original. The So-called Human Race Finally when we all feel ready for a Keeley cure, Rabelais takes us home. Probability He might be said to combine the powers of Æschylus and Aristophanes, of Dante and Rabelais, in his own mind. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Rabelais had made a better use of it before Sidney, and after him, without mentioning Shakespeare, Cyrano de Bergerac furnished more laughable specimens. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare Rabelais did not very early become an author, and his first works were of a purely erudite kind. A Short History of French Literature “Are we all to shudder at the name of Rabelais and take to smelling salts?” queries an editorial colleague. The So-called Human Race Rabelais looks over all the gadgets we have and those that are too much ahead of our time, he throws away. Probability Sorrows of Werter, a sentimental novel of Goethe’s, the work by which he was most generally known to English readers in Hazlitt’s day. laugh’d with Rabelais. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Another of Nash's tendencies, which he has most decidedly in common with Rabelais, consists in the use of a number of expressions in the same sentence for the same idea. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare It may be said, without hesitation, that not a single writer capable of having written it, save Rabelais himself, is known to literary history at the time. A Short History of French Literature Even the French prose of Rabelais and Montaigne was more mature. Spenser The only thing is that I miss Rabelais coming in at five-ten for his beer. Probability Rabelais and Marot were the perpetual favourites of La Fontaine; from one he borrowed his humour, and from the other his style. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 Not so Rabelais; not so either his admirer Nash; the newly-awakened curiosities of the Renaissance were too young as yet, too fresh and strong upon them, to be easily kept down by rule and reflection. The English Novel in the Time of Shakespeare Rabelais was a very learned man, a man of the world, a man of pleasure, a man of obvious interest in political and ecclesiastical problems. A Short History of French Literature Swift and Rabelais are moral, because they tell the truth with sanity and vigor: we may object to certain passages in their writings on esthetic, but not on ethical, grounds. Materials and Methods of Fiction With an Introduction by Brander Matthews I pick up the paper and it's the summer of '53, the day of Rabelais and my thirty-first anniversary and I'm back at the old stand. Probability The humour is as broad as that of Aristophanes or Rabelais. Music: An Art and a Language Aristophanes, Horace, Lucian, Rabelais, Montaigne, Saint-Evremond, these are all Peacock's literary ancestors, each, of course, with his own difference in especial and in addition. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Accordingly, Rabelais is prodigal of learning in season and out of season. A Short History of French Literature Long before that time the immortal satirist Rabelais, and, after him, Michael Montaigne, had already divined the truth, had pointed out serious defects in education, and the way to reform. Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts And sure enough, Rabelais comes in, walks up to the bar like he owns it and roars at me, "Two beers, Mike!" Probability It hath been observed that the Giant of Rabelais is sometimes alluded to by Shakespeare: and in his time no translation was extant.—But the Story was in every one's hand. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare To mention only four, there were Rabelais, Erasmus, Swift and Sterne; each of whom has added to the world's gaiety, and also helped to free it from superstition. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) But besides all this, there was in Rabelais a knowledge of human nature, and a faculty of expressing that knowledge in literary form, in which he is inferior to Shakespeare alone. A Short History of French Literature Aristophanes, Lucian, Rabelais, Erasmus, and Voltaire—to take a few great instances—were all serious in aim and intention. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) The only thing wrong is that Rabelais never lets me go into the future to read the history books that tell what a great guy I was and the things I did. Probability The reference at the beginning of Farmer's note is to Tyrwhitt's Observations and Conjectures upon some passages of Shakespeare, 1766. the Giant of Rabelais. Eighteenth Century Essays on Shakespeare Surely this was a piece of irony worthy the assiduous student of Rabelais and Voltaire. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) The imitation of Rabelais is very perceptible, and sometimes a little irritating, but the work on the whole has merit, and abounds in curious local traits. A Short History of French Literature Ridicule has been used by Bruno, Erasmus, Luther, Rabelais, Swift, and Voltaire, by nearly all the great emancipators of the human mind. Flowers of Freethought (First Series) It's Rabelais, and I could see why he doesn't like it. Probability Swift and Rabelais are moral, because they tell the truth with sanity and vigor; we may object to certain passages in their writings on esthetic, but not on ethical, grounds. A Manual of the Art of Fiction Rabelais even, with all his dirt and jesting, was more in the stream of progress than Luther, and far more than Calvin. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) Much of his book is taken from Rabelais, or from the Heptameron; much from the preachers of the fifteenth century. A Short History of French Literature This curious book is a fusion of the Arabian Nights, Ecclesiastes, and Rabelais. Amaryllis at the Fair And so help me, the boss comes down and Rabelais hauls bills from every pocket and lays it on the bar in a great big pile. Probability The great satirists of the Renaissance, for example, like More, Erasmus, and Rabelais, wrote simply for the persons who were qualified to understand them. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures If Rabelais or Robert Burns appeared again in mortal form and took to writing plays, they would be "new" dramatists with a vengeance—as new as ever Ibsen was, and assuredly they would be sincere. Another Sheaf He was a connection, though it does not seem quite clear what connection, of the Cardinal du Bellay to whom Rabelais was so long attached, and whose house included other illustrious members. A Short History of French Literature For the history of the period it is, as Cardinal Duperron said of Rabelais, le livre—the book—'in worth as a book,' decides Carlyle, 'beyond any other production of the eighteenth century.' James Boswell Famous Scots Series He has Rabelais and Horace at his greasy fingers' ends. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges It was only a hundred years earlier that Rabelais had written over the doors of his ideal abbey, the motto "Do what thou wilt." The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures How strange that men like Rabelais and Swift, Goldsmith and Dickens, who have done so much to make the world laugh, experienced in their own lives great unhappiness. War Letters of a Public-School Boy It is not exuberant, like that of Rabelais, nor sneering, like that of Voltaire, nor despairing, like that of Pascal, nor merely inquisitive and scholarly, like that of Bayle. A Short History of French Literature Rabelais, François; biographical note on, VII, 58; articles by—Gargantua and his childhood, 58; Gargantua's education, 64; of the founding of an ideal abbey, 74.Raleigh, The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index The books, Master," said I. "We will take the immortal works of Maître François Rabelais, and the dirty little edition of 'David Copperfield.' The Belovéd Vagabond At last, in Emerson's doctrine that all things are lawful because Nature is good and human nature is divine, we have a curious parallel to the doctrine of Rabelais. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures Italy was the birthplace of Pantomime and the immortal Pulcinello; Spain had produced Cervantes; France had produced Rabelais and Molière, and classic wits innumerable; England had yielded Shakspeare and a host of humorists. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete He, with Rabelais, remained a well of undefiled French, which all the artificial filtering of Malherbe and Boileau could not deprive of its refreshing and fertilising power. A Short History of French Literature There are many who would excuse themselves from admitting Rabelais. The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time It was in the castle that Jeanne Dare had her first interview with Charles VII., and it is in the town that Fran�ois Rabelais is supposed to have been born. A Little Tour of France The pedagogy of Rabelais is the first appearance of what may be called realism in instruction, in distinction from the scholastic formalism. History of Education Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais' easy-chair. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Montaigne again, like Rabelais, deliberately refuses to be bound by the mere requirements of argument, and expatiates into all sorts of digressions, partaking of the other style, the style of description. A Short History of French Literature This gentleman, whose name is one of the things we shall probably never know, with the cheerfully appropriating spirit of the French, was ready to claim most of Shakespeare's aphorisms for Rabelais. In Château Land The book has perhaps only one serious fault, that of the inevitable and no doubt invited suggestion of, and comparison with, Rabelais. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Compayré thinks that Rabelais is "certainly the first, in point of time, of that grand school of educators who place the sciences in the first rank among the studies of human thought." History of Education His religion at best is an anxious wish,—like that of Rabelais, a great Perhaps. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Crétin was not worse than his fellows; but when even such a man as Marot could call him a poète souverain, Rabelais no doubt felt it time to protest in his own way. A Short History of French Literature We believed the author of this work to possess a power of humour and sarcasm second only to that of Rabelais and Sidney Smith, and a genuine pathos worthy of Henry Fielding or Charles Dickens. Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 Still, the loss of some would have been deplorable, to wit, such gems as Novembre, The Dance of Death, Rabelais, and the travels, Over Strand and Field. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Rabelais began a movement, which was destined to revolutionize educational methods. History of Education I would have you call to mind the strength of the ancient giants, that undertook to lay the high mountain Pelion on the top of Ossa, and set among those the shady Olympus.—Rabelais: Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature The extreme coarseness of language, which makes Rabelais difficult to read now-a-days, seems to have arisen from a variety of causes. A Short History of French Literature Darkened houses, silence—Rabelais and Boccaccio debate the immaculate conception. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath I suppose they used to go off on the sly, and read Rabelais and Villon. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The educational scheme of Rabelais embraced the study of letters, of nature, of science, of morals and religion, of the physical well-being,—in short, of everything necessary, as Herbert Spencer would say, to complete living. History of Education A somewhat similar account is found in Rabelais, book iv. chaps. lv. lvi., referring to Antiphanes. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature Montaigne indeed is almost as complete a representative of the entire character for the last half of the century as Rabelais is of the first. A Short History of French Literature Certain paragraphs in Rabelais recur to one's mind daily. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions His point of view is entirely and absolutely classical, in the old French sense of that suggestive word and in accordance with the great French traditions of Rabelais, Voltaire, Stendhal, Renan, and Anatole France. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations In Rabelais we find the first appearance of realism, which bore rich fruit in later scientific education. History of Education Strike whilst the iron is hot.—Rabelais: book ii. chap. xxxi. Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature But even in him one note, the note of sceptical philosophy, is more dominant than any to be found in Rabelais. A Short History of French Literature Those who fancy Rabelais to be lacking in the kind of religious feeling that great souls respect, let them read that passage in the voyage of Pantagruel that speaks of the Death of Pan. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions I can relish every word of Rabelais and I am not in the least dismayed by Heine's impishness, but I have always found Fielding's and Smollett's grosser scenes difficult mouthfuls to swallow. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The great literary work of Rabelais is embodied in a series of chronicles, the first of which is called "Gargantua" and the second, "Pantagruel." History of Education No doubt at one time Englishmen did know their Rabelais well. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 The title of 'Protestant Rabelais' has been absurdly given to Marnix. A Short History of French Literature Let it be understood that in Rabelais sex is treated with the same reverence, and the same humor, as meat and wine. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions I doubt if it has the weight or the massive solidity of the humour of Rabelais. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Many of his "truths" were as mystified as the conundrums of Rabelais; so nothing was made of the motion.' Myths and Marvels of Astronomy I am of those who think that it had something to do with Rabelais, that there is some of his stuff in it, even that he may have actually planned something like it. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 The spirit of the Fabliaux had been dead, or at any rate dormant, since Marot and Rabelais; La Fontaine revived it. A Short History of French Literature Those who suffer most from Rabelais' manner of treating sex are the incurably vicious. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions He would desert such a group of pious subjectivists to chat with Horace about the scandals of the imperial court or with Rabelais about the price of sausages. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Rabelais, before its secularisation, was one of its canons, and Catherine de' Medicis once possessed a ch�teau on its site. The Story of Paris But it is one of the purest exercises of "purpose," and one of the least furnished with incident or character, to be found in Rabelais. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 In manner he represented the fusion of the purely Gallic school of Marot and Rabelais, with the classical tradition of the Pléiade in its best form. A Short History of French Literature But, after Rabelais, even that terrific psychologist seems contorted and thin. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions It affords him, just as it did Voltaire and Rabelais, his finest opportunities. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Rabelais speaks of the rings Gargantua wore because his father desired him to “renew that ancient mark of nobility.” Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture Of commentaries and books on Rabelais there is no end. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Homer, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Rabelais, have all had to pay this penalty. A Short History of French Literature In this peculiarity Rabelais is completely alone among the writers of the earth. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions It was dangerous in the time of Rabelais to throw doubt on the authority of the church. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations In Rabelais and Swift, in Fielding and Smollett, coarse manners must be reprobated. The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886 In one of them Rabelais was born, and found Quintessence, and of that finding—more fortunate than the result of True Thomas finding the Elf Queen—was born Pantagruelism. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Rabelais is the literary exponent of the earlier Renaissance, with its appetite for the good things of the world as yet unblunted. A Short History of French Literature Well, Rabelais is, of all writers, the one best able to give us that courage. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions I do not even blench from my principle where I find that it brings what is called "taking a sight" within permissible forms of expression: Rabelais not only establishes its antiquity, but makes it English. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II In On Purge Bébé he has written saucy variations on a theme which Rabelais, Boccaccio, George Moore, and Molière in collaboration would have found difficult to handle. The Merry-Go-Round Lucian of course had started it long ago, and Rabelais had in a fashion taken it up but a century before. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Neither of these books was published till a considerable period after the death, not merely of Rabelais, but of their authors. A Short History of French Literature Besides, who am I to "improve" upon Rabelais? Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Medalle added to her collection the “Fragment in the manner of Rabelais” and the invaluable, characteristic scrap of autobiography, which was written particularly for “my Lydia.” Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century This last instance of dying recklessness has been used by Rabelais as one of the jests of Panurge. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy To appreciate him properly, he ought to be compared with Rabelais before him and with Voltaire or Sterne—with both, perhaps, as a counsel of perfection—after him. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Like Rabelais, but with the difference that his was a more poetical temperament than that of his greater contemporary, he has sudden accesses of seriousness, almost of sentiment. A Short History of French Literature Is it a pity, one asks oneself, or is it a profound advantage, that enjoyment of Rabelais should be so limited? Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions The review contains also a brief word of comparison with Rabelais and a quotation from an English critic expressing regret at Yorick’s embroidering “the choicest flowers of genius on a paultry groundwork of buffoonry.” Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century Rabelais believed that he sacrificed to freedom, when he only worshipped fortune. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy But the presentation of Rabelais as a novelist-before-novels may cause more demur, and even suggest the presence of the now hopelessly discredited thing—paradox itself. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 It is the seat of the préfecture, the assizes, and a university—whose college of medicine was famous in the days of Rabelais. The Automobilist Abroad From the noble pleasures of meat and drink and sex, thus generously treated; we must turn to another aspect of Rabelais' work�his predilection for excrement. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Letters to his most intimate Friends, with a fragment in the manner of Rabelais published by his Daughter, Mme. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century To the young mind which hungers for truth and joy, there is something irresistibly fascinating and persuasive in the jolly philosophy and reckless worldly wisdom of Rabelais. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy But Rabelais, like Shakespeare, had small care for small objections. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 Once alone, the unhappy man sank down before the table with its load of proofs, on which lay outspread the three forged letters to Rabelais. The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 Rabelais may really save us from our loathing by the huge all-embracing friendliness of his sense of humor. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions It is found in France, Italy, Spain, Germany, etc., was played by Froissart in the fourteenth century, and by Rabelais in the fifteenth. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium This is but a small portion of the fable as amplified by Rabelais; but what is cited illustrates the accretive power of a jest when it involves a principle of general application. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy This is, of course, the kind of passage which has been brought against Rabelais, as similar ones have been brought against Swift, to justify charges of impiety. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 For a mere trifling error, "Ma�tre Rabelais" instead of "Fr�re Rabelais." The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877 In these little matters one can only say, "some are born Rabelaisian, and some require to have Rabelais thrust upon them!" Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions If they want to describe a finished young gentleman in France, I hear, they say of him, 'Il sait son Rabelais.' The Water-Babies A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby But surely, the great sage of humor, glorious Father Rabelais, of later days, was an exception to the prevailing rule of joyousness in literature? The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Even Rabelais does not escape the main danger—he neglects a little to listen to the wisest voice, "Can't you let him alone?" A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 O for one laugh of Rabelais, To rout these moralising croakers! The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly The reading of Rabelais is not easy to everyone, and perhaps to those for whom it is least easy, he would be most medicinal. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions They are not above private interpretations; they were as liberal as Sir Thomas Urquhart when he translated Rabelais not in the interests of decency. A Tramp's Notebook Sterne, in fact, has even less of the true philosophy of life than Rabelais. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy A great deal has been left out: the chapter is, for Rabelais, rather a long one. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 The generous illusion of Rabelais, that human nature is essentially good, has no place in Calvin's system. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. To all who read Rabelais and love him, one can offer no better wish than that the mystic wine of his Holy Bottle may fulfil their heart's desire. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Rabelais, by common, consent, has a place among the greatest prose writers of the world. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I The witty Rabelais is said, by a recent critic,38 to show covertly in his former publications, and openly in his latter, his “dislike to the Church of Rome.” The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin Now Rabelais is a perpetual fount of inspiration, an inexhaustible magazine of patterns to the most "serious" novelist whose seriousness is not of the kind designated by that term in dissenting slang. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 The influence of Rabelais is seen in the writers of prose tales who were his contemporaries and successors; but they want his broad good sense and real temperance. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. To read Rabelais is to gather, as if from the earth-gods, spirit to endure anything. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Montaigne is usually linked with Rabelais as to his important place in the history of French prose. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I The bitter sarcasms of Rabelais are but too well founded. The Story of Rouen It was impossible that such a figure should not to a certain extent dwarf others; but Rabelais, unlike some modern character-mongers, never lets his psychology interfere with his story. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 It was eagerly read, and brought laughter to the lips of Master Rabelais' patients. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. For in the spiritual drunkenness that Rabelais produces there is not the remotest touch of insanity. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions A famous hymn-writer of the eighteenth century bore all unconsciously a surname that would almost have made Rabelais blush. The Romance of Names Aristophanes was another, Rabelais was another, Erasmus was an inferior one. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals Rabelais unquestionably the first very great known writer. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 With all his boldness and ardour Rabelais exercised a certain discretion, and in revising his own text clearly exhibited a desire to temper valour with prudence. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Rabelais takes us by the hand, shows us the cup of life, deep as eternity, and bids us drink and be satisfied. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions In the fields of Touraine was already playing with his fellows the boy that was to be Rabelais. A History of the United States Rabelais has reflected this common opinion in his celebrated romance entitled 'Gargantua,' in which he represents the royal giant of that name as having been carried by his mother, Gargamelle, eleven months. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother "You were a member of the Rabelais Club of pleasant memory, and think it necessary to live up to your earlier profession." A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 After the medi�val asceticism and the intellectual bondage of scholasticism, life in Rabelais has its vast outbreak and explosion; he would be no fragment of humanity, but a complete man. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. It is the attitude of Rabelais and Montaigne, not the attitude of Wordsworth or Browning. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions With this rather savage wit went courage which could face the most enormous of tests; like Rabelais, like Danton, he could jest with death when death was touching him on the shoulder. A History of the United States But they are vile heretics, to be burnt by all the devils, as Rabelais puts it; which is the reason why I have nothing to do with them. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Laying it down, then, as a point of fact that Rabelais has this curious "holding" quality, whence does he get it? A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 In his contributions to the satire of human-kind he learned something from Rabelais, something from Swift. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. There is no other who treats sex as Rabelais does; who treats it so completely as it ought to be treated! Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions It is derived from Old Fr. glic, used by Rabelais, and the word is very common in the works of the more disreputable French poets of the 15th century. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) Like Rabelais, he can use the pencil to greater ends under cover of the motley, and encase bitter truths with the gilt of a printed jest. The History of "Punch" Fremont had troops which, had they been in the place of these Germans, would have made us pass one of Rabelais's unpleasant quarters of an hour. Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War The clatter and din awoke Rabelais, who drowsily regarded the combatants with lack-luster gaze and undoubtedly thought himself once more amid the fanciful conflicts of fearful giants. Under the Rose Rabelais is not Rabelais, just as life is not life, without it. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Fr. hurluberlu, which occurs in Rabelais, and in Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) The monks of the olden time read Rabelais and Saint Augustine with equal relish. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 It has all the humor of Rabelais with no touch of the Touraine grossness. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III In especial disdain, from her position upon the corner of the table, her glance wandered down the board and rested on Rabelais, the gourmand, before whom were an empty trencher and tankard. Under the Rose But Rabelais is no Dean Swift�nor is there the remotest resemblance between them. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Rabelais was also a professional brother, who, equally with Smollet, attempted to waken up the profession by his satires. History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance We are bound to admit, that, if any writings whatever were to be suppressed on that ground, the writings of Rabelais are certainly entitled to be of the number. Classic French Course in English A fellow of infinite humor,—the truest disciple of Rabelais,—and here he lies without a monument! The Gypsies Truly, are you a right proper fool; for a man, merry in adversity, is as wise as Master Rabelais. Under the Rose I have found both great men invaluable; but I think as far as dealing with the Cloaca Maxima side of things is concerned, Rabelais has been the braver in inspiration. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions His fastidious mind would have shrunk from the pithy coarseness of a Rabelais, or the rustic violence of Luther's German. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation Rabelais closes his story with jocose irreverent application of Scripture,—a manner of his which gives some color to the tradition of a biblical pun made by him on his death-bed. Classic French Course in English The buffooneries of this man, the stories of the abbé Galiani, the extravagances of Rabelais, have sometimes thrown me into profound reveries. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. The followers of Pantagruel fell on both sides, like wheat before the blade of the reaper, until Doctor Rabelais and myself only were left. Under the Rose These are the things that aesthetic fools "with varnished faces" easily overlook and misunderstand; but good simple fellows�"honest cods" as Rabelais would say�are struck to the heart by them. Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions The laugh is more delicate, but no less hearty than Rabelais's. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation Swift, however, differs from Rabelais as well as resembles him. Classic French Course in English Everybody can find something to say about the collection of tales, in which Diderot thought that he was satirising the manners of his time, after the fashion of Rabelais, Montaigne, La Mothe-le-Vayer, and Swift. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. For all the information he would volunteer, the man might have been Doctor Rabelais' model for laconicism, and a moment she stood there with a slight frown. Under the Rose But their Holinesses incited others in Avignon to good works so successfully that Rabelais laughingly called it the “Ringing city” of churches, convents, and monasteries. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 In order perfectly to realize the artistic perfection of Erasmus's book we should compare it with Rabelais. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation Voltaire put the matter with his usual felicity,—Swift is Rabelais in his senses. Classic French Course in English In Rabelais there is at least puissant laughter; in Montaigne, when he dwells on such matters, there is naïveté. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. "A scurvy trick; yet, as Master Rabelais says, Pantagruelians select not their bed." Under the Rose The mention of Rabelais conjures up one of those extremely rare instances where a translation constitutes as great a classic as the original work. The Book-Hunter at Home If only we had space here to assign to the Erasmus of the Colloquies his just and lofty place in that brilliant constellation of sixteenth-century followers of Democritus: Rabelais, Ariosto, Montaigne, Cervantes, and Ben Jonson! Erasmus and the Age of Reformation She hears that son of hers read "some chapters out of Rabelais," "which were enough," she declares, "to make us die with laughing." Classic French Course in English Even Rabelais has his poetic moments, as in the picture of Cupid self-disarmed before the industrious serenity of the Muses. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. Here! some of you, take this"—indicating the sleeping Rabelais—"and throw it into the horse-pond. Under the Rose Whereupon succeeded a course of honeycomb tripe, which moved Dactyl to quoting Rabelais, something that Grangousier had said about tripes. Pipefuls As More, in Utopia, and Rabelais, Erasmus relies already on the dictates of nature, which produces man as inclined to good and which we may follow, provided we are imbued with faith and piety. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation Now come Rabelais, boldly declared by Coleridge one of the great creative minds of literature; and Montaigne, with those Essays of his, still living, and, indeed, certain always to live. Classic French Course in English Perfect fooling is so rare an art, that not half a dozen men in literature have really possessed it; perhaps only Aristophanes, Rabelais, Shakespeare. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. You remember the thing in Rabelais about women—insatiable, devouring, hungering in their satieties. Erik Dorn I find a memorandum of it in my scrap-book: Humorist: Young and untamed, lineal descendent of Eugene Field, Frank Stockton, and François Rabelais, desires to run a column in a Philadelphia newspaper. Pipefuls For Rabelais clean is not Rabelais at all. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation The work is replete with evidences of Rabelais's learning. Classic French Course in English The first Greek text of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates appeared in 1532, edited by no less a hand than that of François Rabelais. The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Thus Rabelais mocked the last Gruyère soldiers as Tasso praised the first, and an undeserved stigma was set on the banner which had been carried unstained through six centuries of warfare at home and abroad. The Counts of Gruyère Plato and Rabelais, Campanella and More, have been among those who announced the principles of social hygiene here set forth. The Task of Social Hygiene His grossness is an essential component in his mental fabric, an element in whose absence he would be not Rabelais but somebody else. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation Rabelais sinned against manners, more than he sinned against morals. Classic French Course in English "H'm, Rabelais merely gives the question, but does not answer it." The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume II A comment of Rabelais in his Pantagruel, adds to the general reproach. The Counts of Gruyère Never was felt to a greater degree what Rabelais terms "the scorn of fortuitous things." A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Rabelais is not precisely a book for bachelors and maids—at times, indeed, is not a book for grown men. Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation We probably never should have had "Gulliver's Travels" from Swift, if we had not first had Gargantua and Pantagruel from Rabelais. Classic French Course in English And here I have a word to say to the wretched idiots who regard “the book called Rabelais” as “immoral” and unfit for youth. Memoirs Laugh like Rabelais, smile like Montaigne; that is the way to take the world. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida This is already the devil of the Mysteries, the one described by Rabelais, almost in the same words. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance These people speak French that is too true for us, and since Rabelais and Montaigne, the advance of the language has lost for us many of its old riches. The Devil's Pool The foregoing is one of the most purely sweet imaginative passages in Rabelais's works. Classic French Course in English Merciful angels and benevolent fairies! it was Urquhart’s translation of Rabelais! Memoirs Rabelais and La Fontaine are recorded by their countrymen to have been rêveurs. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection I do not know that Gargantua would now find the people of Chauny as entertaining as Rabelais tells us they were in his time. France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 Rabelais, being at a great distance from Paris, and without money to pay his hotel bill or his fare, made up three small packets of brick-dust. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Here, then, is Rabelais's own expression, sincere or jocular, as you choose to take it, for what constitutes the essence of his writing. Classic French Course in English However, I found in the Society library Urquhart’s translation of “Rabelais,” which I read, I daresay, as often as any mortal ever did. Memoirs He had named all the planets of the Alpha System from the books of Cabell, and those of Beta from Spenser's Faerie Queene, and those of Gamma from Rabelais. The Cosmic Computer He catches something from his patron Swift when he Laughs and shakes in Rabelais's easy chair. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Philotimus, steward of the house in the suite of Gargantua.—Rabelais, Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 The truth seems to us to be, that Rabelais's supreme taste, like his supreme power, lay in the line of humorous satire. Classic French Course in English Though there were traces of grim Scotch humour in Carlyle, my patron saint and master, Rabelais, or aught like him, had no credit with them. Memoirs If I had the Mostellaria here, I would read it; or a Rabelais, I would do as Morgan Rattler advised you. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 It is naturally allied to intellectual scepticism, as in Rabelais or Montaigne; and Sir Thomas shared the tendency sufficiently to be called atheist by some wiseacres. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Master all these in your young days, and let nothing be superficial; as you grow into manhood, you must learn chivalry, warfare, and field manœuvres.”—Rabelais, Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 But for all that I have found in his work a trace of the tonic morality which inheres in Molière, for example, also a Parisian by birth, and also in Rabelais, despite his disguising grossness. Ten Tales I am speaking plain truth when I say that that one quarter of an hour’s reading of Rabelais—standing up—was to me as the light which flashed upon Saul journeying to p. 71Damascus. Memoirs It is there observed that Rabelais tells the same story of a farmer and the Devil. Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Such febrifuges as masquerade under that name are barely recognisable by authentic connoisseurs, by Rabelaises of sensitive esophagi, by true lovers of subtly concocted gin and vermouth and bitters. Europe After 8:15 Rabelais describes him as of middle stature, with an aquiline nose, very handsome, and always moneyless. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 "I see, Monsieur le Curé," I said, "you are an admirer of Doctor Rabelais." Orrain A Romance He was a genius like Rabelais, but one p. 210who employed business and humanity for material instead of literature, just as Abraham Lincoln, who was a brother of the same band, employed patriotism and politics. Memoirs How far inferior is Swift! and how utterly horrible is the abandoned humor of a despair that leaves all in flames behind it, which breathes upon us from the pages of the unhappy Rabelais! Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag I prefer "Tom Jones" to "The Rosary," Rabelais to the Elsie books, the Old Testament to the New, the expurgated parts of "Gulliver's Travels" to those that are left. Europe After 8:15 When I was a student ... that same Rev. Picatrix ... was wont to tell us that devils did naturally fear the bright flashes of swords as much as he feared the splendor of the sun.—Rabelais, Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 My friend Rabelais, who loves a merry jest, sent them the money for a Doctor's degree for one Johannes Caballus, the same being his mule. Orrain A Romance The tone at which Pope is aiming is that suggested by the "laughing and shaking in Rabelais' easy chair." Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series The futilities of the problems upon which the scholastic thinkers exercised themselves gave occasion for the satiric onslaught both of Rabelais and Erasmus. Jerome Cardan A Biographical Study I read Cellini and Rabelais and Boccaccio with unfeigned delight. Europe After 8:15 Alcofribas, who had resided six months in the giant’s mouth without his knowing it, was made castellan of the castle.—Rabelais, Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 That, mademoiselle," said our host, "is the Doctor Rabelais, whose name is honoured as that of the King here. Orrain A Romance Whether thou choose Cervantes' serious air, Or laugh and shake in Rabelais's easy chair,— And we feel that Swift is present in spirit throughout the composition. Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series Of the first kind are Rabelais and Dickens; of the second kind are Swift and Bernard Shaw. George Bernard Shaw A new Rabelais with an 18th century lisp, Montesquieu, by seasoning his Lettres Persanes with a sauce piquante compounded of indecency and style, succeeded in making the public swallow some incendiary morsels. The French Revolution A Short History A communication of a yet different kind is an imitation of Rabelais, which is not so badly done, but cannot be well translated into English, because of its grotesque and idiomatic character. The Arena Volume 4, No. 19, June, 1891 "I cannot say I am," I laughed, "though we meet on common ground in admiration of Rabelais." Orrain A Romance Lucas le Moigne represents the esprit gaulois, the spirit that is often called “Rabelaisian,” though it is only one side of the genius of Rabelais. Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Rabelais's Pantagruel is filled with irresistible burlesques of the doctrine of purgatory. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life The former, because they said with Montainge, "What can we tell?" and the latter, who said with Rabelais, "It is likely." The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" Boëthius, Rabelais, Erasmus, Bruno, are only brisk young men translating into the vernacular wittily his good things. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy I must tell you that the estimable beast is the property of Doctor Rabelais, who permits me to use him, being, as I said, a friend of friends to me. Orrain A Romance Rabelais had a few valuable books, which he stamped with a similar design in Greek, and the Latin form occurs in many other libraries. The Great Book-Collectors Perhaps his familiarity with the works of Nash, Decker, and Rabelais suggested his word coming. History of English Humour, Vol. 2 Rabelais's quarter of an hour began to hang heavily on us. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Some ages, and those the most poetical, like that of Pericles and that of Rabelais, have deified intoxication and sensuality; others, markedly our own, have preferred the accumulation of wealth and knowledge to sensual indulgence. The Age of the Reformation Why, Rabelais himself might be but an unfamiliar name had not a northern squire of genius rendered to the life three quarters of his work. Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance He is remembered as having published amid the terrors of 1791 an amusing essay on the authority of Rabelais 'in the matter of this present Revolution.' The Great Book-Collectors What a difference is there between the merit, if not the wit, of Cervantes and Rabelais? The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 He is so substantially a reformer, that I find his grand, plain sense in close chain with the greatest masters—Rabelais, Shakespeare in comedy, Cervantes, Butler, and Burns. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O It loved sensation with the greediness of childhood; it intoxicated itself with Rabelais and Titian, with the gold of Peru and with the spices and vestments of the Orient. The Age of the Reformation It would be a shame to pass such a name as Ronsard's signed to an epitaph on such a work as that of Rabelais, poetry or no poetry. Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance When he started the annals of Tristram Shandy, the Rabelais vein was in the ascendant, and there is plenty of evidence that it vastly dazzled and entertained readers of that day. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters A spiritual ancestor of Anatole France’s marvellous full-length figure of Jerôme Coignard, Borrow’s conception takes us back first to Rabelais and secondly to the seventeenth-century conviction of the profound Machiavellism of Jesuitry.” George Borrow The Man and His Books He looks on Rabelais as a great man. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary This giant dressed with a more than royal lavishness and when he played cards, how many games do you suppose Rabelais enumerated one after the other without pausing to take breath? The Age of the Reformation He beguiled these incommunicative periods by studying German, in Tieck and Bürger, without apparently making much progress; also in reading French, in Voltaire and Rabelais. Hawthorne (English Men of Letters Series) In the adorable seventh volume of Tristram, and in The Sentimental Journey, there is nothing left of Rabelais except a certain rambling artifice of style. Some Diversions of a Man of Letters It was a Bohemian, Mathurin Regnier, who was one of the last defenders of the bulwarks of poetry, assailed by the phalanx of rhetoricians and grammarians who declared Rabelais barbarous and Montaigne obscure. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter I want to believe it; but it is sad for those to whom Rabelais dedicated his book. Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary The same intensification of the contrast between the two spirits is seen in comparing Montaigne with Rabelais. The Age of the Reformation A spiritual ancestor of Anatole France’s marvellous full-length figure of Jerôme Coignard, Borrow’s conception takes us back first to Rabelais and secondly to the seventeenth-century conviction of the profound Machiavellism of Jesuitry. Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 Rabelais, Swift, Fielding, use this weapon not unfrequently; Shakespeare very sparingly; Goldsmith and Scott, I think, almost never. Studies in Early Victorian Literature Your powers should equal those of Rabelais' Gargantua, who, seated upon the towers of Notre Dame, drowned so many thousands of the inquisitive Parisians. Social Life in the Insect World Rivers are, etc.—Apparently suggested by a chapter in Rabelais: How we descended in the isle of Odes, in which the roads walk. Pascal's Pensées For Rabelais there was nothing sacred, or even serious in "revealed religion," and God was "that intellectual sphere the center of which is everywhere and the circumference nowhere." The Age of the Reformation Scarron had little of the clear wit of Rabelais to atone for this; but he makes up for it, in a measure, by the utter absurdity of some of his incidents. The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 Rabelais.—Why, then he will disturb himself, not me. Dialogues of the Dead When Rabelais is diffuse, or a buffoon, or worse, it may be to throw disputers off the scent as to his real mark of satire or philosophy. My Life as an Author The gesture is one of the few out of the large number described in various parts of Rabelais' great work, the significance of which is explained. Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 Rabelais was not the only Frenchman to burlesque the religious quarrels of the day. The Age of the Reformation A good many moralists before and since old Rabelais have discoursed on that text. Guy Livingstone; or, 'Thorough' Rabelais.—I am afraid there is another, and a modern author too, whom you would bid to sit above me, and but just below yourself—I mean Dr. Swift. Dialogues of the Dead Three different copies of Rabelais, a De Thou, a Horace, and-bless my soul!—about twenty books of fairy tales! The Half-Hearted They also applied their hempen cords thoroughly, and this course of treatment soon reduced Rabelais to a very weak condition. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business But a spirit far more dangerous to religion than any mere denial incarnated itself in Rabelais. The Age of the Reformation Sir Thomas is well known as the translator of Rabelais; and evidently something of the curious erudition, polyglotism, and quaintness of conceit of his author stuck to the translator. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar Rabelais, well met—our souls are very good company for one another; we both were great wits and most audacious freethinkers. Dialogues of the Dead The intense gravity and self-pity of the sufferer, the enormous and Gargantuan feats of his steed, the extreme distress of body thence resulting, make up a passage more moving than anything in Rabelais. Lost Leaders He confided to Rabelais the government of his household, and persuaded the pope to secularize the abbey of St. Maurdes-Fosses, and conferred it upon the wit. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business And yet this sad and restless man, who found the taste of life as bitter as Rabelais had found it sweet, died for his faith. The Age of the Reformation “And now abideth Rabelais, Cervantes, Shakespeare, these three; but the greatest of these is Shakespeare.” A Study of Shakespeare Rabelais.—I was forced to compound my physic for the mind with a large dose of nonsense in order to make it go down. Dialogues of the Dead His library was probably not a large one, for he had but a few favourite authors, the Latin historians, moralists, and anecdotists, and for mere amusement Terence and Catullus, Boccaccio and Rabelais. Lost Leaders Indeed we must look upon Rabelais as acting the part of a reformer. Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business Margaret had died several years before, but Rabelais was called her poet because he had claimed her protection and to her wrote a poem in 1545. The Age of the Reformation In the comic parts of those plays in which the humour is rank and flagrant that exhales from the lips of Lucio, of Boult, or of Thersites, there is no trace or glimpse of Rabelais. A Study of Shakespeare |
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