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Lytton Strachey. all over Europe , the main characteristics of the average play may be traced straight back to their source in the dominating genius of Molière . If he fell short of the classical ideal in his workman- ship , if he ...
Lytton Strachey. all over Europe , the main characteristics of the average play may be traced straight back to their source in the dominating genius of Molière . If he fell short of the classical ideal in his workman- ship , if he ...
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... characteristics of a great organized campaign . The ideals which animated the new writers - the Philosophes , as they came to be called - may be summed up in two words : Reason and Humanity . They were the heirs of that splendid spirit ...
... characteristics of a great organized campaign . The ideals which animated the new writers - the Philosophes , as they came to be called - may be summed up in two words : Reason and Humanity . They were the heirs of that splendid spirit ...
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... characteristics and its most remarkable manifestations can be touched upon here . The age was before all else an age of Criticism . A strong reaction set in against the looseness of construc- tion and the extravagance of thought which ...
... characteristics and its most remarkable manifestations can be touched upon here . The age was before all else an age of Criticism . A strong reaction set in against the looseness of construc- tion and the extravagance of thought which ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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