Like Keats, Chénier was cut off when he had hardly more than given promise of what his achievement might have been.
The pardon, however, comes too late, and Madeleine and Chénier ascend the scaffold together, in an ecstasy of lyrical rapture.
Gérard condemns Chénier to death, but is melted by Madeleine's pleading, and rescinds the order for his execution.
After a good deal of preludial matter the plot centres in the rivalry of Chénier the poet and Gérard, a revolutionary leader, for the hand of Madeleine.
Collot d'Herbois insulted André Chénier and Roucher in his reply.
Joseph Chénier died in 1811, consistent to the last in his republican notions.
I knew in a moment that the aumônier was right, and that I must get the lad away at once from the intoxicant which nature poured out over this far-away city.
The aumônier was getting up from his little table, and shaking the crumbs from his soutane.
Thereupon Chénier and his men beat a hasty retreat, and made hurried preparations for defending the village.
When the Abbé Paquin and his vicar Desèves sought to leave the parish, Girod and Chénier virtually placed them under arrest.
He begged Chénier to cease his revolutionary conduct.
Henri de Latouche concocted a hemistich here and there where it was wanting, and joined up a rhyme which the pen had forgotten to connect, but that the verses of André Chénier are by M.
What distinguishes De Vigny most markedly from Chénier as a lyric poet is his cult of pure intellect and his proud, stoic feeling of solitude.
Before 1789 André Chénier was the elegiac, idyllic, and erotic poet.
Victor Hugo took the verse which André Chénier had created, that pellucid medium of pure beauty, and when he had breathed upon it, it gleamed with all the colours of the rainbow.
Marie-Joseph Chénier was a less gifted and less seriously minded man than his brother; he followed with the stream and rejoiced in the popularity which a talent exactly suited to the requirements of the time procured him.
The clear radiance of the name of André Chénier extinguished the light of all the names that had hitherto shone brightly.
The idyllic element in it is due to Rousseau; the pastoral scenes may owe much to Theocritus, but Chénier drew from this source only because Rousseau had led the way back to natural conditions.
From that day Chénier renounced the theatre, although there were rumours of two plays lying waiting to come forth some day from his portfolio, called Tibère and Philippe II.
As I have promised to speak in due course of Lemercier, Alexandre Duval and Picard, I will now finish what I have to say about Chénier and Ducis, of whom I shall probably not have occasion to speak again.
Legouvé, Chénier and Ducis were dead when I came to Paris.
Chénier counted on reviving his success by Timoléon.
Timoléon killed his brother, and Chénier was accused of not having saved his.
How was it that Marie-Joseph Chénier found time to look after the rehearsals of his tragedy, so soon after Thermidor, and immediately upon the death of his brother?
This, as well as the Iambes following, was written in the Saint-Lazare prison shortly before Chénier was sent to the guillotine.
Chénier was ordered to compose a tragedy for the perpetual commemoration of it, and he took Cyrus for his hero.
He had bespoken from Chénier a tragedy to be acted on the occasion of the coronation.
CHÉNIER has produced a whole theatre, which will remain to posterity, notwithstanding his faults, as he has contrived to cover them with beauties.
It was useless to try to make him understand that it was impossible for the Aumônier to risk his character, even with the hope of doing good, and at last Mr. Beamish expressed a desire to meet him in my presence on the morrow.
Our worthy Aumônier was horrified at the idea of the kind of sinners he would have to meet, and declined to have anything to do with the wildly charitable scheme.
The priest was robbed by a sergeant of 1200 francs, his sole possessions, and both he and the Aumônier were beaten black and blue, forced to march carrying German knapsacks, and kept practically without food or drink.
After three days the Aumônier succumbed to ill usage and died, and the priest only managed to escape because his captors were themselves on the run.
He and a fellow-priest, an Aumônier from Paris, had been on their way to join the French unit to which they had been allotted for ambulance purposes, when they fell into German hands and were treated as prisoners.
The efforts of Joseph Chénier to get his tragedy Timoléon, played, at a moment when he was not in good repute with the Committee of Public Safety, may serve as an example of many similar incidents.
Always among the moderates, Chénier was revolted by the apotheosis accorded by Collot and the democratic party to the Swiss of the regiment of Chateauvieux.
Augustus Ebénier to relate his story in any other than his own way.
Augustus Ebénier appeared to be satisfied with what he had done, and he did not follow up his advantage, but picked up a stone, to intimate that two could play at that game as well as one.
Mr. Ebénier saw the person who had applied this obnoxious epithet to him during the examination.
Mr. Ebénier lighted a lamp, closed the cabin doors, and drew the silken curtains over the ports in the upper part of the trunk, so that no one could see what he was doing.
Augustus Ebénier had proved that he was a first-class tiger, as well as an exquisite of the first water.
Mr. Ebénier asked himself if this was not a freak of fortune in his favor; if the money was not a providential compensation for his twice-broken head.
During those ten days Mr. Ebénier considered and reconsidered, and then considered again, what he should do with the money that had so strangely come into his possession.
Mr. Ebénier reasoned that his captain could not be vindicated by simply returning the gold to the old man, his uncle.
Augustus Ebénier was not wanting in intelligence, his skull seemed to have a capability for enduring hard knocks which was really surprising.
Of course there could be no doubt in regard to the ownership of the treasure, and Mr. Ebénier could not but wonder at the stupidity of the thieves in hiding it in or under the old sail in the Hotel de Poisson.
Able men like Chénier published some of their writings, and locked others in their desks against a brighter day.
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