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... less complex figure even than such a slight sketch as Shakespeare's Malvolio . Who would have foreseen Malvolio's exquisitely preposterous address to Jove ? In Tartufe there are no such surprises . He displays three qualities , and ...
... less complex figure even than such a slight sketch as Shakespeare's Malvolio . Who would have foreseen Malvolio's exquisitely preposterous address to Jove ? In Tartufe there are no such surprises . He displays three qualities , and ...
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... less moving , and hardly less sublime - a tragedy of ordinary life . Englishmen have always loved Molière . It is hardly an exaggeration to say that they have always detested RACINE . English critics , from Dryden to Matthew Arnold ...
... less moving , and hardly less sublime - a tragedy of ordinary life . Englishmen have always loved Molière . It is hardly an exaggeration to say that they have always detested RACINE . English critics , from Dryden to Matthew Arnold ...
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... less of viciousness than of stupidity , less of the deliberate malice of kings or ministers than of a long , ingrained tradition of narrow- mindedness and inhumanity in the principles of government . Their great object , therefore , was ...
... less of viciousness than of stupidity , less of the deliberate malice of kings or ministers than of a long , ingrained tradition of narrow- mindedness and inhumanity in the principles of government . Their great object , therefore , was ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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