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Racine

noun

French advocate of Jansenism; tragedian who based his works on Greek and Roman themes (1639-1699). Synonyms: Jean Baptiste Racine, Jean Racine.

A city in southeastern Wisconsin on Lake Michigan to the south of Milwaukee.

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... surroundings in which Providence has placed him. The splendour of human intelligence, the loftiness of genius, shine no less by contrast than by harmony with the age. The stoic and profound philosopher is not diminished by an external debasement. Virgil, Petrarch, Racine are great in their purple; Job is still greater on ...

— Napoleon the Little • Victor Hugo

... Fourteenth honoured Racine and Boileau with a private monthly audience. One day the king asked what there was new in the literary world. Racine answered, that he had seen a melancholy spectacle in the house of Corneille, whom ...

— Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) • Isaac D'Israeli

... subjects, which makes all the operas seem exactly alike, was the result of a certain literary reform which had tended to standardise opera libretti under the influence of Racine, and it was really a movement towards dignity and dramatic unity after the monstrous confusion of the earlier Venetian operas. As to the conventionality of the music, and its forms of air and recitative, it can only be said that ...

— Handel • Edward J. Dent

... fight next year for female suffrage. The resolution submitting it to the people passed the Assembly and Senate by more than two to one (57 against 24. and 19 against 9); yet you must not suppose that our cause is so favorable as that. I send a few extracts, copied from the Racine Advocate; and to that number I am pleased to add the Milwaukee News, the leading Democratic paper of the State. Mr. Sholes, one of the leading Republicans of the State (elector on the last Presidential ticket), is warmly in support of your cause. Certainly the great car ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

... Jean Racine, unquestionably the most perfect of the French tragic poets, was born in 1639, at La Fert-Milon, near Paris. He received a sound classical education at Port-Royal des Champs, then a famous centre of religious ...

— Esther • Jean Racine

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