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... common aims , and destined to exercise an immense influence upon the development not only of French , but of European literature . For these reasons —for his almost unerring prescience in the discernment of contemporary merit and for ...
... common aims , and destined to exercise an immense influence upon the development not only of French , but of European literature . For these reasons —for his almost unerring prescience in the discernment of contemporary merit and for ...
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... common sense withers the Ideal ; but it remains common sense . ' Il faut cultiver notre jardin ' is his final word - one of the very few pieces of practical wisdom ever uttered by a philosopher . His Voltaire's style reaches the summit ...
... common sense withers the Ideal ; but it remains common sense . ' Il faut cultiver notre jardin ' is his final word - one of the very few pieces of practical wisdom ever uttered by a philosopher . His Voltaire's style reaches the summit ...
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... common to the earliest Fabliaux of the Middle Ages and the latest Parisian novel of to - day . On the other hand , there is in French literature a totally different almost a contradictory tendency , which is no less clearly marked and ...
... common to the earliest Fabliaux of the Middle Ages and the latest Parisian novel of to - day . On the other hand , there is in French literature a totally different almost a contradictory tendency , which is no less clearly marked and ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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