Eight centuries of French literature, from the Chanson de Roland to SartreRobert Foster Bradley, Robert Bell Mitchell |
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... Great at Potsdam ; but the two great men could not agree , and finally Voltaire obtained permission to depart . In 1759 , after some years at Geneva , he settled near - by at Ferney . For the next twenty years Ferney became the center ...
... Great at Potsdam ; but the two great men could not agree , and finally Voltaire obtained permission to depart . In 1759 , after some years at Geneva , he settled near - by at Ferney . For the next twenty years Ferney became the center ...
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... great universal man of the century , for not only was he a scientific and philo- sophic thinker of the first rank , but he had an artist's appreciation of beauty such as few men of his age possessed . Yet he was never able to realize ...
... great universal man of the century , for not only was he a scientific and philo- sophic thinker of the first rank , but he had an artist's appreciation of beauty such as few men of his age possessed . Yet he was never able to realize ...
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... great dreamers of dreams ; both were misanthropic , distrustful of a world which seemed hopelessly opposed to all their ideals . Both were great lovers of nature , in which they sought and found consolation for the wrongs of society ...
... great dreamers of dreams ; both were misanthropic , distrustful of a world which seemed hopelessly opposed to all their ideals . Both were great lovers of nature , in which they sought and found consolation for the wrongs of society ...
Contents
La Chanson de Roland | 3 |
LA LITTÉRATURE BOURGEOISE | 12 |
LA POÉSIE LYRIQUE | 21 |
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