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Page 149
... Hugo , in the opening lines of Hernani , ventured to refer to an ́escalier dérobé ' , and to put ' escalier ' at the end of one line , and ' dérobé ' at the beginning of the next , he was assailed with the kind of virulence which is ...
... Hugo , in the opening lines of Hernani , ventured to refer to an ́escalier dérobé ' , and to put ' escalier ' at the end of one line , and ' dérobé ' at the beginning of the next , he was assailed with the kind of virulence which is ...
Page 152
... Hugo in the theatre shows , in a no less striking light , the incapacity of contemporaries to gauge the true significance of new tendencies in art . On the whole , the dramatic achievement of the Romantic School was the least valuable ...
... Hugo in the theatre shows , in a no less striking light , the incapacity of contemporaries to gauge the true significance of new tendencies in art . On the whole , the dramatic achievement of the Romantic School was the least valuable ...
Page 159
... Hugo attempted to construct a prose epic of modern life ; but the attempt was not successful . Its rhetorical cast of style , its ceaseless and glaring melodrama , its childish presentments of human character , its endless digressions ...
... Hugo attempted to construct a prose epic of modern life ; but the attempt was not successful . Its rhetorical cast of style , its ceaseless and glaring melodrama , its childish presentments of human character , its endless digressions ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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