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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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"Racine" Quotes from Famous Books

... way—so mystical, in fact, that it enabled each to discover that the bloody sacrifice of Mosaism was forbidden, not enjoined. The most minute likenesses have been pointed out between these two sects by all Catholic writers from Eusebius to the poet Racine... Was there any connection between these two sects? It is difficult to conceive that there can be two ...

— God and my Neighbour • Robert Blatchford

... effect will be finer, when you see me act it. Pardon me if I am vain enough to feel assured that my little play will touch my husband's heart as ever Racine, Shakespeare, ...

— Infelice • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson

... for the Crown a copyright of less than half that length. Go to Rome. My noble friend would give more than twice as long a term to Cicero's juvenile declamation in defence of Roscius Amerinus as to the Second Philippic. Go to France. My noble friend would give a far longer term to Racine's Freres Ennemis than to Athalie, and to Moliere's Etourdi than to Tartuffe. Go to Spain. My noble friend would give a longer term to forgotten works of Cervantes, works which nobody now reads, than ...

— The Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches of Lord Macaulay, Vol. 4 (of 4) - Lord Macaulay's Speeches • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... beautiful sound. This being the case, everything that we might call distinctly poetical, all those things which are precious to us in Shakespeare, or Marlowe, or Webster, in Goethe or Schiller, nay, even, occurring at intervals, in Racine himself, at least as much as mere psychology or oratory or pathos, appeared to Alfieri in the light of mere meretricious gewgaws, which took away from the interest of dramatic action without affording him any satisfaction ...

— The Countess of Albany • Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)

... turning away from her comrade, opened her French dictionary and plunged into the difficulties of her page of translation from Racine. ...

— The Princess of the School • Angela Brazil

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