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...reliable servant in spite of his name...
...Rococo (servant all round) J. C. Hunt...
...give his daughter, Angelique, in marriage to the new-made Dr. Diafoirus, the nephew of Purgon, his physician. Both Argan and Diafoirus are exhibiting, the former his credulity, and the latter his pedantry, in a most comical manner, which is still more striking by the cutting remarks of the servant, Toisette...
...object is the welfare of his fellowmen. He believed that truth must be spoken at all hazards, and this work was written at the risk of offending the most powerful persons in Florence. Whether as poet or philosopher or prophet, Dante's one strong purpose always remained unchanged. No servant of men ever gave himself to their service with more devotion, or ever served them with more integrity than he did. It is the marvel in Dante's poetry that, intentionally writing for a moral purpose, his work never lost in beauty or art on that account...
...young girls. The first was captured when very little by gypsies and brought up by them as one of their own children. Hyacinthe is the daughter of Geronte. Octave is in love with Hyacinthe, and Leandre with Zerbinette. Scapin, the chief character in the play, is the servant of Leandre, and Sylvestre is the servant of Octave. Nerine is Hyacinthe's old nurse...