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... lived in a time when the mildest speculation was fraught with danger ; and he says what he has to say in the shifting and ambiguous forms of jest and allegory . Yet it was by no means simply for the sake of concealment that he made his ...
... lived in a time when the mildest speculation was fraught with danger ; and he says what he has to say in the shifting and ambiguous forms of jest and allegory . Yet it was by no means simply for the sake of concealment that he made his ...
Page 58
... airiest badinage to the darkest objurgation , which has not been touched . In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth . And his genius was not simply artistic ; 58 FRENCH LITERATURE.
... airiest badinage to the darkest objurgation , which has not been touched . In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth . And his genius was not simply artistic ; 58 FRENCH LITERATURE.
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... lived it , has long since vanished from the earth - preserved to us now only in the pages of its poets , or strangely shadowed forth to the traveller in the illimi- table desolation of Versailles . That it has gone so utterly is no ...
... lived it , has long since vanished from the earth - preserved to us now only in the pages of its poets , or strangely shadowed forth to the traveller in the illimi- table desolation of Versailles . That it has gone so utterly is no ...
Page 79
... lived in the harness of the professional entertainer . His early years were spent amid the rough and sordid surroundings of a travel- ling provincial company , of which he became the manager and the principal actor , and for which THE ...
... lived in the harness of the professional entertainer . His early years were spent amid the rough and sordid surroundings of a travel- ling provincial company , of which he became the manager and the principal actor , and for which THE ...
Page 80
... lived to reap the quiet benefit of his work , for he died in the midst of it , at the age of fifty - one , after a perform- ance in the title - rôle of his own Malade Imaginaire . What he had achieved was , in the first place 80 FRENCH ...
... lived to reap the quiet benefit of his work , for he died in the midst of it , at the age of fifty - one , after a perform- ance in the title - rôle of his own Malade Imaginaire . What he had achieved was , in the first place 80 FRENCH ...
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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!