Landmarks in French Literature |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 11
Page 87
... contains in its small compass the observations of a lifetime . Though the reflections are not formally connected , a common spirit runs through them all . ' Vanity of vanities ! All is vanity ! ' such is the perpetual burden of La Roche ...
... contains in its small compass the observations of a lifetime . Though the reflections are not formally connected , a common spirit runs through them all . ' Vanity of vanities ! All is vanity ! ' such is the perpetual burden of La Roche ...
Page 128
... contains , after all , something more than mere pessimism - it contains a positive doctrine as well . Voltaire's common sense withers the Ideal ; but it remains common sense . ' Il faut cultiver notre jardin ' is his final word - one of ...
... contains , after all , something more than mere pessimism - it contains a positive doctrine as well . Voltaire's common sense withers the Ideal ; but it remains common sense . ' Il faut cultiver notre jardin ' is his final word - one of ...
Page 137
... some sort of way , to justify what was positively bad . Thus his book contains the germs of that Byronic egotism which later became the fashion all over Europe . E * It is also , in parts , a morbid book THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 137.
... some sort of way , to justify what was positively bad . Thus his book contains the germs of that Byronic egotism which later became the fashion all over Europe . E * It is also , in parts , a morbid book THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY 137.
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