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... strange kind of poetry : not that of imaginative vision , of plastic beauty , of subtle feeling ; but that of intellectual excitement and spiritual strength . It is the poetry of Malherbe multiplied a thousandfold in vigour and in ...
... strange kind of poetry : not that of imaginative vision , of plastic beauty , of subtle feeling ; but that of intellectual excitement and spiritual strength . It is the poetry of Malherbe multiplied a thousandfold in vigour and in ...
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... strange ; how was it that it should have been left to the morbid , tortured , half - crazy egoist of the Confessions to lead the way to such spiritual delicacies , such innocent delights ? The paradox was too strange for Rousseau's con ...
... strange ; how was it that it should have been left to the morbid , tortured , half - crazy egoist of the Confessions to lead the way to such spiritual delicacies , such innocent delights ? The paradox was too strange for Rousseau's con ...
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... strange speculations and wondrous possibilities . The march of mind seemed so rapid that the most advanced thinkers of yesterday were already out of date . ' Voltaire est bigot : il est déiste , ' exclaimed one of the wits of Paris ...
... strange speculations and wondrous possibilities . The march of mind seemed so rapid that the most advanced thinkers of yesterday were already out of date . ' Voltaire est bigot : il est déiste , ' exclaimed one of the wits of Paris ...
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ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES | 7 |
THE AGE OF TRANSITION | 31 |
THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT | 142 |
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