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... beauty , at once fragile and imperishable , of an enchanting work of art . The unknown author has created , in his light , clear verse and his still more graceful and poetical prose , a delicious atmosphere of delicate romance . It is ...
... beauty , at once fragile and imperishable , of an enchanting work of art . The unknown author has created , in his light , clear verse and his still more graceful and poetical prose , a delicious atmosphere of delicate romance . It is ...
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... beauty ; but that was not enough for the poets of the Renais- sance : they determined to sing not only with beauty , but with care . The movement began in the verse of MAROT , whose clear , civilized , worldly poetry shows for the first ...
... beauty ; but that was not enough for the poets of the Renais- sance : they determined to sing not only with beauty , but with care . The movement began in the verse of MAROT , whose clear , civilized , worldly poetry shows for the first ...
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... beauty of clarity , order , refinement , and simplicity , he jumped to the conclusion that these were the characteristics of Nature herself , and that without them no beauty could exist . He was wrong . Nature is too large a thing to ...
... beauty of clarity , order , refinement , and simplicity , he jumped to the conclusion that these were the characteristics of Nature herself , and that without them no beauty could exist . He was wrong . Nature is too large a thing to ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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