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... master that Joinville has brought into his pages ; his book is as much a self- revelation as a biography . Unlike Villehar- douin , whose chronicle shows hardly a trace of personal feeling , Joinville speaks of him- self unceasingly ...
... master that Joinville has brought into his pages ; his book is as much a self- revelation as a biography . Unlike Villehar- douin , whose chronicle shows hardly a trace of personal feeling , Joinville speaks of him- self unceasingly ...
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... master . The purpose of Rabelais ' book cannot be summed up in a sentence . It may be de- scribed as the presentment of a point of view : but what point of view ? There lies the crux of the question , and numberless critics have ...
... master . The purpose of Rabelais ' book cannot be summed up in a sentence . It may be de- scribed as the presentment of a point of view : but what point of view ? There lies the crux of the question , and numberless critics have ...
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... masters of the sixteenth century . But in France the movement was checked ; and the result was a body of litera- ture , not only of the highest value , but also of a unique significance in European letters . The break in the Renaissance ...
... masters of the sixteenth century . But in France the movement was checked ; and the result was a body of litera- ture , not only of the highest value , but also of a unique significance in European letters . The break in the Renaissance ...
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... masters of the age of Louis XIV looked back to Malherbe as the intellectual father of their race . Malherbe's immediate influence , however , was very limited . Upon the generation of writers that followed him , his doctrines of ...
... masters of the age of Louis XIV looked back to Malherbe as the intellectual father of their race . Malherbe's immediate influence , however , was very limited . Upon the generation of writers that followed him , his doctrines of ...
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... He was above all things a rhetorician ; he was an instinctive master of those qualities in words which go to produce effects of passionate vehemence , vigorous precision , and culminating force . THE AGE OF TRANSITION 51.
... He was above all things a rhetorician ; he was an instinctive master of those qualities in words which go to produce effects of passionate vehemence , vigorous precision , and culminating force . THE AGE OF TRANSITION 51.
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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!