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... brilliance and animation of their descriptions , the vigour of their charac- ter - drawing , the flowing picturesqueness of their style . They unroll themselves like some long tapestry , gorgeously inwoven with scenes of adventure and ...
... brilliance and animation of their descriptions , the vigour of their charac- ter - drawing , the flowing picturesqueness of their style . They unroll themselves like some long tapestry , gorgeously inwoven with scenes of adventure and ...
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... was the result of a number of converging causes , of which the most important were the diffusion of classical literature consequent upon the break - up of the Byzantine Empire at the hands of the Turks , the brilliant civilisation of the ...
... was the result of a number of converging causes , of which the most important were the diffusion of classical literature consequent upon the break - up of the Byzantine Empire at the hands of the Turks , the brilliant civilisation of the ...
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... brilliant government of Francis I , there was an out- burst of original and vital writing . This literature , which begins , in effect , what may be called the distinctively modern literature of France , differs in two striking respects ...
... brilliant government of Francis I , there was an out- burst of original and vital writing . This literature , which begins , in effect , what may be called the distinctively modern literature of France , differs in two striking respects ...
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... brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible out- break of the Wars of Religion . For about sixty years , with a few intermissions , the nation was a prey to the horrors of civil strife . And when at last order was ...
... brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with the terrible out- break of the Wars of Religion . For about sixty years , with a few intermissions , the nation was a prey to the horrors of civil strife . And when at last order was ...
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... brilliance of Pascal's art that every page of them is fascinating to - day . The vivacity of the opening letters is astonishing ; the tone is the gay , easy tone of a man of the world ; the attack is delivered in a rushing onslaught of ...
... brilliance of Pascal's art that every page of them is fascinating to - day . The vivacity of the opening letters is astonishing ; the tone is the gay , easy tone of a man of the world ; the attack is delivered in a rushing onslaught of ...
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Page 71 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
Page 60 - Quelle chimère est-ce donc que l'homme ? Quelle nouveauté, quel monstre, quel chaos, quel sujet de contradiction, quel prodige ! Juge de toutes choses, imbécile ver de terre; dépositaire du vrai, cloaque d'incertitude et d'erreur ; gloire et rebut de l'univers.
Page 129 - Les choses les plus souhaitées n'arrivent point ; ou , si elles arrivent, ce n'est ni dans le temps ni dans les circonstances où elles auraient fait un extrême plaisir.
Page 128 - L'on voit * certains animaux farouches , des mâles et des femelles, répandus par la campagne, noirs , livides, et tout brûlés du soleil, attachés à la terre qu'ils fouillent et qu'ils remuent avec une opiniâtreté invincible : ils ont comme une voix articulée ; et quand ils se lèvent sur leurs pieds , ils montrent une face humaine , et en effet ils sont des hommes.
Page 126 - ... a pris racine au milieu de ses tulipes et devant la Solitaire; il ouvre de grands yeux, il frotte ses mains, il se baisse, il la voit de plus près, il ne l'a jamais vue si belle, il a le cœur épanoui de joie; il la...
Page 60 - Nous sommes plaisants de nous reposer dans la société de nos semblables : misérables comme nous, impuissants comme nous, ils ne nous aideront pas; on mourra seul.
Page 118 - Jupin pour chaque état mit deux tables au monde : L'adroit, le vigilant, et le fort, sont assis A la première ; et les petits Mangent leur reste à la seconde.
Page 123 - Nous pardonnons souvent à ceux qui nous ennuient, mais nous ne pouvons pardonner à ceux que nous ennuyons.
Page 14 - ... n'ai jou que faire. Mais en infer voil jou aler, car en infer vont li bel clerc, et li bel cevalier qui sont mort as tornois et as rices gueres, et li...
Page 240 - Oui l'oeuvre sort plus belle D'une forme au travail Rebelle, Vers, marbre, onyx, émail!