"Soubrette" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with laudatory verses prefixed, in one of which Scudery bids the stars retire for the sun has risen. The scene is laid in Paris, and some presentation of contemporary manners is made in La Galerie du Palais and La Place Royale. It was something to replace the nurse of elder comedy by the soubrette. The attention of Richelieu was attracted to the new dramatic author; he was numbered among the five garcons poetes who worked upon the dramatic plans of the Cardinal; but he displeased his patron by his imaginative independence. Providing ...
— A History of French Literature - Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. • Edward Dowden
... soubrette Maidservant in a play displaying coquetry, pertness, and a tendency to engage in intrigue. Flirtatious or frivolous ...
— Fighting For Peace • Henry Van Dyke
... "Cette soubrette, qui est la meme dont je me suis servi depuis pour tirer de la tour de Segovie le seigneur de Santillane, ayant envie de rendre service a Don Ignacio, engagea sa maitresse a demander pour lui un benefice an Duc de ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various
... the real lady's-maid, and not the actress, had been before them; while she who had so well personated the part quietly resumed her seat without the least sign of merriment, as grave as possible. Most striking had been the transition from the calm, lady-like person, to the gay, loquacious soubrette; and not less so the sudden extinction of vivacity and resumption of well-bred decorum. This little scene for a few moments charmed everybody out of themselves, and gave ...
— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie
... became a soubrette of a somewhat hooligan type, and pretended to throw a little feather duster she was holding into the depths of ...
— The Limit • Ada Leverson
... hips, heads, breasts, legs, and arms, all mingling and growing indistinct in the distance. On the left stretched a line of busts—such delightful ones—furnishing a most comical and uncommon suite of noses. There was the huge pointed nose of a priest, the tip-tilted nose of a soubrette, the handsome classical nose of a fifteenth-century Italian woman, the mere fancy nose of a sailor—in fact, every kind of nose, both the magistrate's and the manufacturer's, and the nose of the gentleman decorated with ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola
... for it to make good to Brenton all the other lacks, whether in his professional career, or in his wife herself. Indeed, he turned to science, his first great love, as some other men might have turned to the wooing society of a stage soubrette. As the weeks went on, and the tentacles of his priesthood, coming into contact with his doubts and failing to penetrate them, by slow degrees relaxed their grip on him, by those same slow degrees, he felt his manhood yielding to the insistent demands ...
— The Brentons • Anna Chapin Ray
... pretty well; and music has so much recovered its power of charming that there is started up a burletta at Covent Garden,(448) that has half the vogue of the old Beggar's Opera: indeed there is a soubrette, called the Niccolina, who, besides being pretty, has more vivacity and variety of humour than ...
— The Letters of Horace Walpole, Volume 2 • Horace Walpole
... the elder becomes a "leading lady," whose role is that of the naive ingenue, famous for "smartness" and "vivacty": "one cannot refrain from smiling at the lively sallies of her good nature and simplicity of heart." I find this young person the model of a pert, pretty, prattling little French soubrette who, moreover, makes open love to "the master." Habib calls the "good old lady," his governess "Esek! Esek!" which in Turk. means donkey, ass. I need hardly enlarge upon these ineptitudes; those who wish to pursue the subject have only ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton |
