Portraits of the Seventeenth Century, Historic And Literary
Portraits of the Seventeenth Century, Historic And Literary
Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
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Nothing half-told, or told too much; all is sketched in, painted in, but nothing emphasised. This leads us to the examination of another ques- > A jubilee in the Roman Catholic Church is a solemn and general plenary indulgence granted by the Pope on certain occasions and un- der certain conditions. — Tr. Digitized by VjOOQIC flDa^ame &e CwBlvis. 331 tion, which has already been touched upon, and with which the name of Mme. de Caylus has been mingled from the beginning. What is urbanity ? in wha...t does it properly consist? Is it wholly in the conciseness and appropriateness of a witty saying ? is it in irony, in pleasantry, in gaiety, or must we seek it else- where? An abb6, a learned man, and a wit, the Abb6 G^doyn, the same who translated Qyintilian, and translated him all the better because he had been a friend of Ninon (to be with Ninon was always use- fill), — ^the Abb6 G6doyn, 1 say, has written on this question of urbanity, and he ends his agreeable and learned treatise by adding a eulogy on Mme.
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