We should remember also, that Voiture held his place in good society upon the tacit condition that he should always strive to be witty.
If they deserve any regard at all, it is as links in the history of fiction between the mock-heroic romance, of which Voiture had given an instance, and the style of fantastic invention, which was perfected by Hamilton.
Voiture is chiefly known by his letters; his other writings, at least, are inferior.
But if the bad taste of others had not perverted his own, Voiture would have been a good writer.
Voiture seems to have fancied that good sense spoils a man of wit.
In reality, the style of Voiture is artificial and elaborate, but, like his imitator Prior among us, he has the skill to disguise this from the reader.
Voiture has the honour of having rendered this style fashionable.
Montausier, whom Voiture has made famous by several very ingenious letters, the most of which were writ to her when she was a Maid, and call'd Mlle.
I engaged this voiture to convey me to Avignon for eight hundred francs.
The author engages a voiture for his projected journey.
Fouchette had been thrown from the voiturein the conflict, and had been run over by the mob and trampled into the mud of the gutter.
She laughed gleefully, and affected to move away from him, only, at that instant, the hind wheel of the voiture struck a stray bowlder, and the shock threw her bodily back against him.
Seeing which the wary driver of the voiture in which Fouchette was seated turned and called to her behind his hand,-- "Keep your seat, mademoiselle!
She finally sprang into an open voiturein the jam, and wisely remained there in spite of the driver's furious gesticulations.
And what might have been deemed still more foreign to her nature, she never said a word from that moment until the voiture drew up in front of her place of residence in the venerable but not venerated Rue St. Jacques.
The superciliousness of the voiture vanished from my recollection, and my national frigidity was doomed to be thawed into civility, if not into amiableness.
If there were an Hotel de France, it would be another affair: add to this, that the voiture which has just passed us is going to the hotel.
Voiture born with an easy and frivolous genius, was the first who shone in this Aurora of French literature.
He had much the same reputation in London that Voiture had in Paris; and in my opinion deserved it better.
They then got out upon the road to Bressuire, at no great distance from that town, and on reaching Bressuire they got refreshment and proper clothes, and hired a voiture for the remainder of their journey.
They got into a voiture at Bressuire, and from thence continued their journey in something more like comfort, while Francois with the waggon followed them; but the two ladies were not destined to reach Durbellière that night.
Through to Vienna the race was won by Farman in a seventy-horse-power Panhard, though Marcel Renault in a Renault "Voiture Legere" was first to arrive.
It is Voiture indeed, butVoiture turned inside-out.
Voiture had begun it in 1633 in the style fashionable at the Hotel de Rambouillet, and even, as he pretends, with the help of Mdlle.
He is in his shirt-sleeves; coat slung over his shoulder, and whip in hand, he is on the way to get his horse and voiture for the day.
Voiture existed at a time when we were first emerging from literary ignorance, and when wit was aimed at, but scarcely attained.
Voiture apparently acquired this false taste from Marini, who came into France with Mary of Medici.
He had pretty nearly the same reputation in London as Voitureenjoyed in Paris, but I believe that he more deserved it.
I know that it matters very little, in the affairs of this world, whether Voiture was or was not a great genius; whether he wrote only a few pretty letters, or that all his pieces of pleasantry were models.
Voiture and Costar frequently cite him as a model in their letters.
Are we not disgusted when Voiture says to the great Conde, on the taking of Dunkirk: "I expect you to seize the moon with your teeth.
It is a pity that we can gift Voiture with occasional taste only: his famous letter from the carp to the pike, which enjoyed so much reputation, is a too extended pleasantry, and in passages exhibiting very little nature.
When compared with those of Voiture referred to, every reader will allow that the verses of Voiture are the production of a courtier of good taste, and those of L'Etoile the labor of a coarse and unintellectual pretender.
Far from having reproached Voiture with having wit in his letters, I found, on the contrary, that he had not enough, although he was constantly seeking it.
Despreaux, who in his first satires had ventured to compare Voiture to Horace, changed his opinion when his taste was ripened by age.
When the voiture stopped in the village, there seemed to be a nonplusation, to coin a word for the nonce, between my friend and his sisters.
Voiture has made several stanzas upon an accident of that kind, which happened to a lady of his acquaintance.
There it was that Voiture labored hard and incessantly to create wit.
Theophile de Viau and Racan, Voiture and Saint-Amant cannot for a moment be mentioned in the same rank with Corneille.
Voiture seconded Balzac without much intending to do so.
A un endroit particulierement expose, au moment ou les obus tombaient avec violence, a arrete sa voiture pour prendre des blesses qu'il a aide a charger avec le plus grand calme, donnant ainsi preuve de courage et de sang-froid.
The patronne says there is no need for a voiture en galerie, because monsieur must not take his trunks.
Chapelain was never on those terms of petted intimacy with his host and hostess which the insinuating Voiture enjoyed, but he conquered a position of more genuine respect and esteem.
Donne was a greater poet-divine than Cospeau or Godeau; our national vanity may fairly set Daniel and Drayton against Voiture and Chapelain, while even Corneille is not shamed by being balanced by Ben Jonson.
Collas, withVoiture and Chapelain respectively in their particular thoughts, have turned over the priceless wealth of MSS.
The father of Voiture was a shopkeeper who sold wine at the sign of the Chapeau de Roses at Amiens, and there his son Vincent was born in 1595.
When Chapelain made his first appearance at the Hotel, perhaps in 1635, Voiture had long been installed there.
Among the other original members, Voiture and Gomberville, the author of Polexandre, have never lost their little place in the crowded history of French literature.
In an ingenious passage he says: The taste for badinage perverted in Voiture the taste for beauty.
Voiture and Tallemant are full of instances of her fertility.
This is perhaps the most famous of rondeaus of the type which Voiture did much to make popular.
If they are read in that light, they will be very entertaining and useful in the present age; but in the next, Cicero, Pliny, and Voiture may regain their reputation.
Mrs. Buck brought us up to our new home, which we reached on foot (as our voiture could not ascend so high) by a little winding path, by the side of which a little brook kept running along to make music for us.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "voiture" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: auto; automobile; boat; buggy; bus; car; carriage; crate; heap; machine; motor; motorcar; tub; wheels; wreck
