Examples of using Alceste in English and their translations into Russian
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You're Alceste.
Alceste is suffering.
You're no Alceste.
Alceste is a pure, sincere man.
I'm playing Alceste.
I play Alceste or I don't play.
And you're offering me Alceste.
Alceste is no tortured revolutionary.
I'm telling you I play Alceste, period.
Alceste is intransigent selfish, possessive.
In truth, I liked playing Alceste with him.
Alceste is dragged to justice and puts up no defense.
One week you would play Alceste and I would play Philinte.
Alceste and Philinte are old friends, that's key.
And this unreasonable passion that Alceste tries to fight.
You said Alceste thinks he can change people.
Your first Molière,your first play, and you take Alceste.
You're playing Alceste whilst retaining your scruples.
He founded an Académie de Musique atStrasbourg in 1687 and arranged Lully's Alceste for performance there.
I imagined Alceste was forced by his father to ride a horse.
While apologising in the precious language of the 17th century Célimène tries to make Alceste understand this.
Alceste was accompanied by the small sloop HMS Lyra, under Captain Basil Hall, and the East Indiaman General Hewitt, which carried gifts for the Emperor.
The voyage to China subsequently became famous when Maxwell's ship HMS Alceste was wrecked in the Gaspar Strait, and he and his crew became stranded on a nearby island.
Alceste was despatched to the Adriatic Sea to support James Brisbane in the absence of William Hoste, who had been wounded at the Battle of Lissa in March 1811.
At 3 pp. m.,the Spanish convoy being then abreast of the town of Rota, the Alceste and squadron weighed, with the wind at west-south-west, and stood in for the body of the Spanish vessels.
Lyra and Alceste visited the Gulf of Pecheli, the West coast of Korea and the"Loo-Choo"(Ryukyu) Islands-in some cases as the first European ships known to have sailed these waters.
The same year, the Arctic explorer Henry Parkyns Hoppner,who had served under Maxwell aboard the Alceste on the mission to China, named Murray Maxwell Bay on Baffin Island after his former captain.
On 18 August 1914 Italian syndicalist Alceste de Ambris, speaking from the rostrum of the Milanese Syndical Union(USM), began a ferocious attack against neutrality in World War I and urged intervention against German reaction and the necessity of aiding France and the United Kingdom.
After the Battle of Alexandria, the squadron under Contre-Admiral Jean-Baptiste Perrée, consisting of the 40-gun Junon,36-gun Alceste, 32-gun Courageuse, 18-gun Salamine and the brig Alerte escaped to Genoa.
On 4 July, Lully's Alceste was performed for the court in the Cour de Marbre; on 11 July, Quinault's L'Églogue de Versailles was staged near the Trianon de Porcelaine; eight days later, the Grotte de Thétys served as the setting for Molière's le Malade Imaginaire; and Racine's Iphigénie debuted on 18 August in a theater constructed in the Orangerie.
