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... original work . Jean de Meung abandoned entirely the refined and aristocratic atmosphere of his predecessor , and wrote with all the realism and coarseness of the middle class of that day . Lorris's vapid allegory faded into ...
... original work . Jean de Meung abandoned entirely the refined and aristocratic atmosphere of his predecessor , and wrote with all the realism and coarseness of the middle class of that day . Lorris's vapid allegory faded into ...
Page 96
... original : some Eastern travellers were supposed to arrive in Paris , and to describe , in a correspondence with their countrymen in Persia , the principal features of life in the French capital . But the uses to which Montesquieu put ...
... original : some Eastern travellers were supposed to arrive in Paris , and to describe , in a correspondence with their countrymen in Persia , the principal features of life in the French capital . But the uses to which Montesquieu put ...
Page 99
... original , always fine ; unfortunately , they are too often unsound into the bargain . The fluid elusive facts slip through his neat sentences like water in a sieve . His treatment of the English constitution affords an illustration of ...
... original , always fine ; unfortunately , they are too often unsound into the bargain . The fluid elusive facts slip through his neat sentences like water in a sieve . His treatment of the English constitution affords an illustration of ...
Contents
ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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