Corneille is Latin, Racine is Greek; the very name of Childebrande suffices to cover an epopee with ridicule.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century] Reference

Corneille, which is founded upon Calderon's “El Astrologo Fingido.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dramatic Works of John Dryden]

Just as he had recalled Corneille to the stage, Fouquet was for protecting Moliere upon it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5] Reference

There were some people on there who I like, such as Corneille and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference

The situation is such as Corneille might have imagined; but Rotrou's young hero in the end is pardoned and receives the kingdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference

It sustained Corneille against the persecutions of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women of the French Salons] Reference

Nature was more in Corneille, art was more in Racine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

"Do you hear that drunken wretch, Monsieur?" asked Corneille.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Bossuet, twinned here with Corneille, is to the Frenchman, as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Corneille and Racine -- or of his great comedians, Moliere and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852] Reference

The two great names in French tragedy are Corneille and Racine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

"I will explain the matter to you presently," answered Corneille.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Corneille and La Fontaine were her favorite traveling companions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women of the French Salons] Reference

Racine, accordingly, is much more even and uniform than Corneille.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Du Guesclin and Corneille both sang it, each one after his fashion.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

Voltaire, as editor and commentator of Corneille, is freezingly cold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Racine eclipsed Corneille in vogue during the lifetime of the latter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Corneille or of a sentimental shepherdess, as the caprice seized her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women of the French Salons] Reference

Corneille will not write anything good; we have only seen 'Le Cid' and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Castro, of Corneille, and in our own days, in the graceful writings of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference

Corneille to swell out eleven, or, in one edition, -- that issued under.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

It was perhaps not without its influence on the style of Corneille, that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Corneille did not, however, like Molière, tread the boards as an actor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Voltaire criticises Corneille for giving this sordid character to Felix.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

This latter play the author took to Corneille to get his judgment on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Frenchmen -- made, of course, before Voltaire -- yoked them, Corneille with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Corneille does not belong to the class of the "faultily faultless" writers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

He is to Corneille what Virgil was to Homer, what Raphael to Michael Angelo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference

Racine had, too, in contrast with Corneille, more of the Euripidean sweetness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

"The Corneille of the pulpit," was Henri Martin's characterization and praise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

So, again, Spanish literature, brought into contact with French through Corneille and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Corneille read most of his dramas here, and, if report be true, read them very badly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Women of the French Salons] Reference

Corneille subjects us to his characters and to his ideas; Racine accommodates himself to ours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Corneille wrote here and there what his commentator, Voltaire, declared to be hardly intelligible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Corneille was first, more rugged, loftier; Racine was second, more polished, more severe in taste.    From Wordnik.com.  [Classic French Course in English] Reference

Three men only approached him, an officer, Poquelin, and Corneille; the latter whispered to Milton.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference