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... precisely in this haphazard and various looseness . His exceeding coarseness is itself an expression of one of the most fundamental qualities of his mind - its jovial acceptance of the physical facts of life . Another side of the same ...
... precisely in this haphazard and various looseness . His exceeding coarseness is itself an expression of one of the most fundamental qualities of his mind - its jovial acceptance of the physical facts of life . Another side of the same ...
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... precisely in this dual character of theirs that their fascination lies . In their outward appearance they are deliciously true to life . With the fewest of rapid strokes , La Fontaine can raise up an unmistakable vision of any beast or ...
... precisely in this dual character of theirs that their fascination lies . In their outward appearance they are deliciously true to life . With the fewest of rapid strokes , La Fontaine can raise up an unmistakable vision of any beast or ...
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... precisely contrary tendency marks the poetry of VERLAINE . While Maupassant completely disengaged prose from every alien element of poetry and imagina- tion , pushing it as far as it could go in the direction of incisive realism ...
... precisely contrary tendency marks the poetry of VERLAINE . While Maupassant completely disengaged prose from every alien element of poetry and imagina- tion , pushing it as far as it could go in the direction of incisive realism ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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