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... common - sense , eminently human nobleman , and the grave , elevated , idealising king . In their conversations , re- counted with such detail and such relish by Joinville , the whole force of this contrast becomes delightfully apparent ...
... common - sense , eminently human nobleman , and the grave , elevated , idealising king . In their conversations , re- counted with such detail and such relish by Joinville , the whole force of this contrast becomes delightfully apparent ...
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... common principles and a fixed poetical creed , differentiates them in a striking way from the poets who had preceded them . They worked with no casual purpose , no merely professional art , but with a high sense of the glory of their ...
... common principles and a fixed poetical creed , differentiates them in a striking way from the poets who had preceded them . They worked with no casual purpose , no merely professional art , but with a high sense of the glory of their ...
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... common in our own . How many of the greatest English writers would have denied that they were men of letters ! — Scott , Byron , Gray , Sir Thomas Browne , per- haps even Shakespeare himself . When Con- greve begged Voltaire not to talk ...
... common in our own . How many of the greatest English writers would have denied that they were men of letters ! — Scott , Byron , Gray , Sir Thomas Browne , per- haps even Shakespeare himself . When Con- greve begged Voltaire not to talk ...
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... common ground of fact and detail ; it would touch nothing but generalities , for they alone are safe , harmless , and respectable ; and , if they are also empty , how can that be helped ? Starving , it shrank into itself , muttering old ...
... common ground of fact and detail ; it would touch nothing but generalities , for they alone are safe , harmless , and respectable ; and , if they are also empty , how can that be helped ? Starving , it shrank into itself , muttering old ...
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... common aims , and destined to exercise an immense influence upon the development not only of French , but of European literature . For these reasons - for his almost unerring prescience in the discernment of contem- porary merit and for ...
... common aims , and destined to exercise an immense influence upon the development not only of French , but of European literature . For these reasons - for his almost unerring prescience in the discernment of contem- porary merit and for ...
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age of Louis artistic Balzac beauty Bossuet brilliant Bruyère Chansons Chansons de Geste character characteristic charm CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES civilisation classical complete Corneille critical detail Diderot doctrine dominating doubt drama eighteenth century elaborate English exquisite extraordinary fact feeling Flaubert Fontaine French literature genius human ideals imagination immense important infinitely influence intensity Jean de Meung language Les Misérables less letters Lettres Provinciales literary literature of France Louis XIV master melancholy ment Middle Ages mind modern Molière Molière's Montaigne Montesquieu movement nature ness never noble novels Paris Parnassiens Pascal passion perfect Philosophes play poems poet poetical poetry precisely produced profound prose qualities Rabelais Racine Racine's reader realise Renaissance rhetoric Romantic Rousseau Saint-Simon seems sense sentences Shakespeare soul spirit splendid splendour strange style subtle supreme things thought tion tradition tragedy triumph true truth vast verse Victor Hugo vision Voltaire Voltaire's whole words writers
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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!