larmoyante

Williams gave a dinner to talk him over, which I suppose was done with the voix larmoyante, et voila tout.

George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

"Les victimes soignent leurs mots, les bourreaux sont ivres de philosophie larmoyante," 15 writes Alphonse Daudet in this connection.

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

His _Delincuente honrado_ (1773), a _comédie larmoyante_ after the manner of Diderot's _Fils naturel_, had wide success on the stage.

Modern Spanish Lyrics 1899

Williams gave a dinner to talk him over, which I suppose was done with the voix larmoyante, et voila tout.

George Selwyn His Letters and His Life Ed 1899

But Madame de Montolieu has emerged from the most _larmoyante_ kind of

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889

Again, the stage has a history of its own, and, in so far as it was now making progress of any kind, it was not in the direction of a more poetic or romantic drama, but rather toward prose tragedy and the sentimental comedy of domestic life, what the French call _la tragédie bourgeoise_ and _la comédie larmoyante_.

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

Goethe; in the _comédie larmoyante_, both French and English; found its cleverest expression in Sterne, and then, becoming a universal vogue, deluged fiction with productions like Mackenzie's "Man of Feeling," Miss

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

Pope had died in 1744, Swift in 1745, the last important survivors of the Queen Anne wits; and already the reaction against gayety had set in, in the deliberate and exaggerated solemnity which took possession of all departments of verse, and even invaded the theater; where Melpomene gradually crowded Thalia off the boards, until sentimental comedy -- _la comedie larmoyante_ -- was in turn expelled by the ridicule of Garrick, Goldsmith, and Sheridan.

A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century 1886

Thus comedy grew serious, and tragedy put off its exalted airs; the genius of tragedy and the genius of comedy were wedded, and the _comédie larmoyante_, which might be named more correctly the bourgeois drama, was born of this union.

A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878

Already those tendencies which were to produce the so-called _comédie larmoyante_ were at work.

A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. Edward Dowden 1878