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... thought that gives him a high place in French litera- ture . In virtue alike of his popularisation of an encyclopædic store of knowledge and of his underlying doctrine - the worship of Na- ture he ranks as a true forerunner of the great ...
... thought that gives him a high place in French litera- ture . In virtue alike of his popularisation of an encyclopædic store of knowledge and of his underlying doctrine - the worship of Na- ture he ranks as a true forerunner of the great ...
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... thought , how- ever , perpetually haunts him ; under all his music of laughter or of passion , it is easy to hear one dominating note . It is the thought of mortality . The whining , leering , brooding creature can never for a moment ...
... thought , how- ever , perpetually haunts him ; under all his music of laughter or of passion , it is easy to hear one dominating note . It is the thought of mortality . The whining , leering , brooding creature can never for a moment ...
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... thought — came into hands worthy of receiving it . Scholars , artists , and thinkers seized upon the wondrous heritage and found in it a whole unimagined universe of instruction and delight . At the same time the physical discoveries of ...
... thought — came into hands worthy of receiving it . Scholars , artists , and thinkers seized upon the wondrous heritage and found in it a whole unimagined universe of instruction and delight . At the same time the physical discoveries of ...
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... thought . The intellectual effort of the Middle Ages had very rarely clothed itself in an artistic literary form . Men laughed or wept in the poetry or prose of their own tongue ; but they thought in scholastic Latin . The work of Jean ...
... thought . The intellectual effort of the Middle Ages had very rarely clothed itself in an artistic literary form . Men laughed or wept in the poetry or prose of their own tongue ; but they thought in scholastic Latin . The work of Jean ...
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... thought was bold ; but he 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 ...
... thought was bold ; but he 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 ...
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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!