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Cлово "RATHER"
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Часть текста: 1849 г. 127. ГЕНРИ ЧОРЛИ 25 октября (6 ноября) 1849. Париж Paris, ce 6 novembre 49. J'avais eu l'intention de vous ecrire le lendemain de la premiere representation du "Prophete" 1 , mon cher Monsieur Chorley, mais je n'ai fait qu'ajouter un pave au chemin de l'enfer - vous savez qu'on dit qu'il est pave de bonnes intentions. Cependant je n'en ai pas voulu avoir le dementi et je vous ecris aujourd'hui. Je commencerai donc par vous dire de notre amie qu'elle a ete rallier nervous a la premiere representation, grace au bruit, qui s'etait propage, qu'on voulait lui faire une mauvaise reception pour la punir d'avoir assiste a un banquet republicain a Londres 2 . Ce banquet est, comme vous le savez bien, une fable absurde - mais ces messieurs honnetes et moderes n'y regardent pas de si pres, quand il s'agit de calomnier et d'insulter les gens, qui ne peuvent pas se defendre. - La reception de Mme Viardot a ete superbe - et ces braves messieurs n'ont pas donne signe de vie: cependant l'apprehension qu'elle avait ressentie - avait suffi pour lui oter une partie de ses moyens - et elle n'a ete vraiment elle-meme que dans le 5-me acte. Mais des la seconde soiree elle a reparu plus triomphante que jamais. Vous avez du lire dans les journaux qu'elle a aussi chante le "Requiem" de Mozart aux obseques de ce pauvre Chopin. L'eglise de la Madeleine est malheureusement fort peu sonore ou plutot...
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Часть текста: good sense penetrates to the roots of things, and he possesses a genuine kind of phlegmatic humour which betrays the Oriental element in Slavonic nature. In his birth and all the circumstances of his life Krilof was as Russian as possible: he was essentially national in his ways of thinking, feeling, and writing; and it may be maintained without exaggeration that a foreigner who has carefully studied Krilof’s fables will have a better idea of the Russian national character than if he had read through all the travels and essays that attempt to describe it. Russian children learn Krilof by heart as French ones do La Fontaine, without entering into all the wisdom of his teaching, but in later life they return to him with double profit. Like La Fontaine, but to a still greater degree, Krilof has supplied the public conscience with a number of precepts and adages and sayings which have become proverbial even in the mouth of unlettered peasants; no one is oftener quoted than he, and, like the Bible and Shakespeare in England, those who quote him have often no idea of their obligation — proof positive that his work has been completely absorbed into the national popular life from which it sprung. The present day offers no higher reward to literary ambition than this faint reflection of the past grandeur of epic poetry, which is only great because it is impersonal. Mr. Ralston’s translation leaves nothing to desire in the matter of accuracy or colouring, and the fables which he has added are not amongst the least welcome. The short preface and memoir prefixed to the volume, and the historical and literary notes on some of the fables, have been done conscientiously and con amore. It will not be his fault if Krilof does not prove to be thoroughly «naturalised» in England. Personally, the present writer remembers to have seen Krilof once a short time before his death. He had a majestic head rather...