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... movement , which had given birth to the Pléiade , to Rabelais , and to Montaigne , had continued to progress ... movement was checked : and the result was a body of literature , not only of the highest value , but also of a unique ...
... movement , which had given birth to the Pléiade , to Rabelais , and to Montaigne , had continued to progress ... movement was checked : and the result was a body of literature , not only of the highest value , but also of a unique ...
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... movement of his sentences is particularly characteristic . Clause follows clause , image is piled upon image , the words hurry out upon one another's heels in clusters , until the construction melts away under the burning pressure of ...
... movement of his sentences is particularly characteristic . Clause follows clause , image is piled upon image , the words hurry out upon one another's heels in clusters , until the construction melts away under the burning pressure of ...
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... movement had been already faintly dis- cernible in Diderot's bright colouring and the oratorical structure of Rousseau's writing . But it was not until after the Revolution , in the first years of the nineteenth century , that the ...
... movement had been already faintly dis- cernible in Diderot's bright colouring and the oratorical structure of Rousseau's writing . But it was not until after the Revolution , in the first years of the nineteenth century , that the ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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