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... noble and com- prehensive conception of the duties and destiny of man . This was the achievement of the Philosophes . They spread far and wide , not only through France , but through the whole civilized world , a multitude of searching ...
... noble and com- prehensive conception of the duties and destiny of man . This was the achievement of the Philosophes . They spread far and wide , not only through France , but through the whole civilized world , a multitude of searching ...
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Lytton Strachey. Racine . A distinction had grown up between words that were ' noble ' and words that were ' bas ' ; and only those in the former class were admitted into poetry . No word could be ' noble ' if it was one ordinarily used ...
Lytton Strachey. Racine . A distinction had grown up between words that were ' noble ' and words that were ' bas ' ; and only those in the former class were admitted into poetry . No word could be ' noble ' if it was one ordinarily used ...
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... noble ' did not at first lead ( as might have been expected ) to an increase of realism . Rather the opposite took place . The Romantics loved the new words not because they made easier the expression of actual facts , but for their ...
... noble ' did not at first lead ( as might have been expected ) to an increase of realism . Rather the opposite took place . The Romantics loved the new words not because they made easier the expression of actual facts , but for their ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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