See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

THOMAS See also:

• CORNEILLE, PIERRE (1606–1684)
• THOMAS CORNEILLE (1625-1709)

CORNEILLE (1625-1709)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French dramatist, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at See also:

• ROUEN

Rouen on the 20th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1625, being nearly twenty years younger than his See also:

• BROTHER

brother, the See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• CORNEILLE, PIERRE (1606–1684)
• CORNEILLE, THOMAS (1625-1709)

Corneille . His skill in See also:

• VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse-making Seems to have shown itself See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early, as at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of fifteen he composed a piece in Latin which was represented by his See also:

• FELLOW

fellow-pupils at the See also:

• JESUITS

Jesuits' See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college of Rouen . His first French See also:

• PLAY

play, See also:

• LES

Les Engagements du hasard, was acted in 1647 . Le Feint Astrologue, imitated from the See also:

• SPANISH

Spanish, and imitated by See also:

• DRYDEN, JOHN (1631-1700)

Dryden, came next See also:

• YEAR

year . At his brother's See also:

• DEATH

death he succeeded to his vacant See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair in the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy . He then turned his See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to See also:

• PHILOLOGY

philology, producing a new edition of the Remarques of C . F . See also:

• VAUGELAS, CLAUDE FAVRE

Vaugelas i341687, and in 1694 a See also:

• DICTIONARY

dictionary of technical terms, intended to supplement that of the Academy . A See also:

• COMPLETE

complete See also:

• TRANSLATION

translation of See also:

• OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid's Metamorphoses (he had published six books with the heroic Epistles some years previously) followed in 1697 . In 1 704 he lost his sight and was constituted a " See also:

• VETERAN

veteran," a dignity which preserved to him the privileges, while it exempted him from the duties, of an academician . But he did not allow his misfortune to put a stop to his See also:

• WORK

work, and in 1708 produced a large Dictionnaire universel geographique et historique in three volumes See also:

• FOLIO (properly the ablative case of the Lat. folium, leaf, but also frequently an adaptation of the Ital. foglio)

folio . This was his last labour .

He died at Les Andelys on the 8th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1709, aged eighty-four . It has been the See also:

• CUSTOM (from O. Fr. costume, costume or coustume; Low Lat. costuma, a shortened form of consuetudo)

custom to speak of See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas Corneille as of one who, but for the name he See also:

• BORE

bore, would merit no See also:

• NOTICE

notice . This is by no means the See also:

• CASE
• CASE, JOHN (d. 1600)

case; on the contrary, he is rather to be commiserated for,his connexion with a brother who outshone him as he would have outshone almost any one . But the two were strongly attached to one another, and practically lived in See also:

• COMMON

common . Of his See also:

• FORTY

forty-two plays (this is the utmost number assigned to him) the last edition of his complete See also:

• WORKS

works contains only See also:

• THIRTY

thirty-two, but he wrote several in See also:

• CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with other authors . Two are usually reprinted as his masterpieces at the end of his brother's selected works . These are Ariane (1672) and the See also:

• COMTE, AUGUSTE [ISIDORE AUGUSTE MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER] (1798-1857)

Comte d' See also:

• ESSEX
• ESSEX, ARTHUR CAPEL
• ESSEX, EARLS OF
• ESSEX, KINGDOM OF
• ESSEX, ROBERT DEVEREUX
• ESSEX, ROBERT DEVEREUX, 2ND2 EARL OF (1566-1601)
• ESSEX, WALTER DEVEREUX, IST2 EARL OF (1541–1576)

Essex, in the former of which See also:

• RACHEL (1821-1858)

Rachel attained success . But of Laodice, Camma, Stilico and some other pieces, See also:

• PIERRE

Pierre Corneille himself said that " he wished he had written them," and he was not wont to speak lightly . See also:

• GAMMA

Gamma (1661, on the same See also:

• STORY, JOHN (c. 1510-1571)
• STORY, JOSEPH (1779-1845)
• STORY, ROBERT HERBERT (1835-1907)
• STORY, WILLIAM WETMORE (1819—1895)

story as See also:

• TENNYSON, ALFRED TENNYSON

Tennyson's See also:

• CUP (in O.E. cuppe; generally taken to be from Late Lat. cuppa, a variant of Lat. cupa, a cask, cf. Gr. KuaeXXov)

Cup) especially deserves notice . Thomas Corneille is in many ways remarkable in the See also:

• LITERARY

literary See also:

• GOSSIP (from the O.E. godsibb, i.e. God, and sib, akin, standing in relation to)

gossip-See also:

• HISTORY

history of his See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time . His Timecrate boasted of the longest run (8o nights) recorded of any play in the See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century . For La Devineresse'he and his coadjutor de Vise (1638-1710, founder of the Mercure plant, to which Thomas contributed) received above 60oo livres, the largest sum known to have been thus paid .