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... detail , beauty with truth . Together with the Chanson de Roland -though in such an infinitely different style -Aucassin et Nicolete represents the most valuable elements in the French poetry of this early age . La With the thirteenth ...
... detail , beauty with truth . Together with the Chanson de Roland -though in such an infinitely different style -Aucassin et Nicolete represents the most valuable elements in the French poetry of this early age . La With the thirteenth ...
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... detail and such relish by Joinville , the whole force of this contrast becomes delightfully apparent . One seems to see in them , compressed and symbolised in the characters of these two friends , the conflicting qualities of sense and ...
... detail and such relish by Joinville , the whole force of this contrast becomes delightfully apparent . One seems to see in them , compressed and symbolised in the characters of these two friends , the conflicting qualities of sense and ...
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... 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 incantations ; and it ...
... 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 incantations ; and it ...
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... detail follows detail and complex scenes are developed , there is no trace of the superfluous ; every word has its purpose in the general scheme . This quality appears most clearly , perhaps , in the adroit swiftness of his conclusions ...
... detail follows detail and complex scenes are developed , there is no trace of the superfluous ; every word has its purpose in the general scheme . This quality appears most clearly , perhaps , in the adroit swiftness of his conclusions ...
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... detail ; but he was without the virulent bitterness of the great Dean . In fact his indictment owes much of its impressiveness to the sobriety with which it is presented . There is no rage , no strain , no over - emphasis ; one feels as ...
... detail ; but he was without the virulent bitterness of the great Dean . In fact his indictment owes much of its impressiveness to the sobriety with which it is presented . There is no rage , no strain , no over - emphasis ; one feels as ...
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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!