Landmarks in French Literature |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 7
Page 7
... civilization in Gaul , a new language was at the same time slowly evolved . This language , in spite of the complex influences which went to the making of the nationality of France , was of a simple origin . With a very few exceptions ...
... civilization in Gaul , a new language was at the same time slowly evolved . This language , in spite of the complex influences which went to the making of the nationality of France , was of a simple origin . With a very few exceptions ...
Page 50
... Middle Ages had been at last forgotten , when the literatures of Greece and Rome had delivered their benignant message , when civilization could enjoy for a SHAK SONN . space its new maturity , before a 50 FRENCH LITERATURE.
... Middle Ages had been at last forgotten , when the literatures of Greece and Rome had delivered their benignant message , when civilization could enjoy for a SHAK SONN . space its new maturity , before a 50 FRENCH LITERATURE.
Page 134
... civilization . So far , therefore , the Philosophes were right ; if the Golden Age was to have any place at all in ... civilization , but the conventionality of civilization — the restrictions upon the free play of the human spirit which ...
... civilization . So far , therefore , the Philosophes were right ; if the Golden Age was to have any place at all in ... civilization , but the conventionality of civilization — the restrictions upon the free play of the human spirit which ...
Contents
ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
4 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
age of Louis appeared artistic Balzac beauty Bérénice Bossuet brilliant Bruyère Chansons Chansons de Geste character characteristics charm classical complete contemporaries Corneille critical detail Diderot doctrine dominating doubt drama eighteenth century elaborate Elizabethan English expression exquisite extraordinary fact feeling Flaubert Fontaine French literature French poetry genius human ideals imagination immense important infinitely influence intensity Jean de Meung language Les Misérables letters Lettres Provinciales literary literature of France Louis XIV masterpieces melancholy Middle Ages mind Molière Molière's Montaigne Montesquieu movement nature never noble novels Paris Parnassiens Pascal passion perfect Philosophes play poems poet poetical poetry precisely produced profound prose qualities Rabelais Racine Racine's reader realism Renaissance rhetoric Romantic Rousseau Saint-Simon seems sense sentences Shakespeare soul spirit splendid splendour strange style subtle supreme things thought tion tradition tragedy triumph true truth vast verse Victor Hugo vision Voltaire Voltaire's whole words writers