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... achievement was based upon a combination of what was best in these two movements . The work of Jodelle , written with a genuinely artistic intention , was nevertheless a dead thing on the stage ; while Hardy's melodramas , burst- ing as ...
... achievement was based upon a combination of what was best in these two movements . The work of Jodelle , written with a genuinely artistic intention , was nevertheless a dead thing on the stage ; while Hardy's melodramas , burst- ing as ...
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... achievement of the Philosophes . They spread far and wide , not only through France , but through the whole civilized world , a multitude of searching interrogations on the most vital subjects ; they propounded vast theories , they ...
... achievement of the Philosophes . They spread far and wide , not only through France , but through the whole civilized world , a multitude of searching interrogations on the most vital subjects ; they propounded vast theories , they ...
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... done or thought were abolished from the world , except a single sentence of Voltaire's , the essence of their achievement would have survived . His writing brings to a culmination the tradition that Pascal 128 FRENCH LITERATURE.
... done or thought were abolished from the world , except a single sentence of Voltaire's , the essence of their achievement would have survived . His writing brings to a culmination the tradition that Pascal 128 FRENCH LITERATURE.
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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