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... BOSSUET , ordered , lucid , magnificent , reflect its literary ideals as clearly as the couplets of Racine . Unfortunately , however , in the case of Bossuet , the splendour and perfection of the form is very nearly all that a modern ...
... BOSSUET , ordered , lucid , magnificent , reflect its literary ideals as clearly as the couplets of Racine . Unfortunately , however , in the case of Bossuet , the splendour and perfection of the form is very nearly all that a modern ...
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... Bossuet stands in the first rank . His style is broad , massive , and luminous ; and the great bulk of his writing is remarkable more for its measured strength than for its ornament . at times the warm spirit of the artist , glowing ...
... Bossuet stands in the first rank . His style is broad , massive , and luminous ; and the great bulk of his writing is remarkable more for its measured strength than for its ornament . at times the warm spirit of the artist , glowing ...
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... Bossuet's Histoire Universelle . That book had shown the world's history as a part of the providential order — a grand unfolding of design . Voltaire's view was very different . To him , as to Montesquieu , natural causes alone were ...
... Bossuet's Histoire Universelle . That book had shown the world's history as a part of the providential order — a grand unfolding of design . Voltaire's view was very different . To him , as to Montesquieu , natural causes alone were ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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