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... nature , there can be little doubt that Corneille was a romantic . His fiery energy , his swelling rhetoric , his love of the extraordinary and the sublime , bring him into closer kinship with Marlowe than with any other writer of his ...
... nature , there can be little doubt that Corneille was a romantic . His fiery energy , his swelling rhetoric , his love of the extraordinary and the sublime , bring him into closer kinship with Marlowe than with any other writer of his ...
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... Nature herself , and that without them no beauty could exist . He was wrong . Nature is too large a thing to fit into a system of æsthetics ; and beauty is often - perhaps more often than not - com- plex , obscure , fantastic , and ...
... Nature herself , and that without them no beauty could exist . He was wrong . Nature is too large a thing to fit into a system of æsthetics ; and beauty is often - perhaps more often than not - com- plex , obscure , fantastic , and ...
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... nature of cats and mice , foxes and lions , after we have read the Fables than before . Nor , on the other hand , are they the mere pegs for human attributes which they were in the hands of Æsop . La Fontaine's creatures partake both of ...
... nature of cats and mice , foxes and lions , after we have read the Fables than before . Nor , on the other hand , are they the mere pegs for human attributes which they were in the hands of Æsop . La Fontaine's creatures partake both of ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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