Nora’s flight is repeated in almost every piece, and in The Wild Duck is travestied in Hjalmar’s departure from his house.
The stern realities of the first recusants had been so travestied by the exaggerated imitation of their successors that no faith was placed in the serious earnestness of man or woman.
Rousseau, "can maintain that this law is the work of hatred and persecution, unless it is travestied by some profoundly dishonest Government.
Combes, who travestied Waldeck Rousseau's Associations Bill," rejoined a deputy of the Right.
The caricaturist has taken certain freedoms with the person of the Neapolitan ambassador, and Sir William is travestied as a stout personage, suffering from the gout.
Fox is travestied under the portly figure of Falstaff; Sheridan, Petty, and other Ministers do duty as his followers.
Byron altered to "George De Barnwell" when in 1862 he travestied the old play at the Adelphi.
Of the French composers, Auber has had more pieces travestied in this country than has any one of his fellows.
Weber's "Der Freischutz" has been travestied both by Mr. Burnand and by H.
Here he read his skits and parodies, heretravestied Virgil, made epigrams on Richelieu, and poured out his indelicate but always laughable witticisms.
The religion of his own country he carried back to mediæval forms, and thentravestied it.
Nay, who should I mean, but that travestied lassie whom we dined with when we honoured Heriot the goldsmith?
Every one in the house attended these representations; and I must confess we felt perhaps even more pleasure than others in seeing thus travestied on the stage those in whose service we were.
In his evidence before the Rural Committee of Inquiry, he has mutilated, travestied this sitting, where the Radico-Liberal bourgeoisie laid bare all its baseness.
Poor Eily O'Connor, in all her simple innocence and ignorance of the world, is a beautiful creation; and though travestied in three or four different forms on the stage, she still holds a lasting place in our affections.
The divine beings which appear in the Avesta in the guise of personified abstractions, are the deities of Aryan mythology travestied presumably, according to the hypothesis, under Neo-Platonic influences.
It is no longer Renart with his cynical gaiety, or the curiously travestied and almost amiable Devil of the Middle Ages.
It would seem to have been the evil influence of this travestied maxim which had much to do with the cramped and timorous strategy of the Americans in their late war with Spain.
This is a truth so vital that some authorities in their eagerness to enforce it have travestied it into the misleading maxim, "That attack is the best defence.
Strange to say the crowds seemed to think that they travestied Praetorians to a nicety whereas neither had ever set eyes on a Praetorian and their antics were the product of mere innate whimsicality.
The leading episode, which occupies about three cantos of the twelve, is an elaborate vilification of this personal enemy travestied as the contemptible Conte di Culagna.
Equality is travestied as an aristocrat kneeling in the dust, while a half-naked sansculotte is treading on his neck and beating his head with a club.
Twas ever thus," the well-known lines of Moore, has also beentravestied by Mr. H.
Mr. Tennyson's "Home they brought her warrior dead," has likewise been differently travestied by various writers.
Elsewhere the dogmatic summary of Hume's "Essays" illustrates the lingering eighteenth-century Latinism that had been previously travestied in the more stilted passages of the letters of Burns.
Another new writer to whom Punch now paid the homage of parody was Mr. Chesterton, whose glittering paradoxes are travestiedin a mock eulogy of Bradshaw, in the manner of "G.
The characteristics of the Hunger demons are travestied in such devils as these, only the diabolical, as distinguished from the demonic element, appears in features of luxuriousness.
In trying to conquer, as it were, these imaginary monsters, they have sometimes swarmed and gibbered around me in a mad comedy whichtravestied their tragic sway over those who believed in their reality.
Thus the relations of St. Francis with women in general and St. Clara in particular, have been completely travestied by Thomas of Celano.
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