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... CORNEILLE . With the production , in 1636 , of Corneille's tragedy , Le Cid , modern French drama came into existence . Previous to that date , two main movements are discernible in French dramatic art - one carrying on the medieval ...
... CORNEILLE . With the production , in 1636 , of Corneille's tragedy , Le Cid , modern French drama came into existence . Previous to that date , two main movements are discernible in French dramatic art - one carrying on the medieval ...
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... Corneille . By nature , there can be little doubt that Corneille was a romantic . His fiery energy , his swelling rhetoric , his love of the extraordinary and the sublime , bring him into closer kinship with Marlowe than with any other ...
... Corneille . By nature , there can be little doubt that Corneille was a romantic . His fiery energy , his swelling rhetoric , his love of the extraordinary and the sublime , bring him into closer kinship with Marlowe than with any other ...
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... Corneille , found its perfect exponent ; and it will be well there- fore to postpone a more detailed examination of the nature of that type until we come to consider Racine himself , the value of whose work is inextricably interwoven ...
... Corneille , found its perfect exponent ; and it will be well there- fore to postpone a more detailed examination of the nature of that type until we come to consider Racine himself , the value of whose work is inextricably interwoven ...
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... Corneille loses half its value when it is unheard ) , on a full - flowing tide of lan- guage , where the waves of the verse , follow- ing one another in a swift succession of ever- rising power , crash down at last with a roar . It is a ...
... Corneille loses half its value when it is unheard ) , on a full - flowing tide of lan- guage , where the waves of the verse , follow- ing one another in a swift succession of ever- rising power , crash down at last with a roar . It is a ...
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... Corneille's master- pieces are concerned with the same subject— the combat between indomitable egoism and the forces of Fate . It is in the meeting of these " fell incensed opposites " that the tragedy consists . In Le Cid Chimène's pas ...
... Corneille's master- pieces are concerned with the same subject— the combat between indomitable egoism and the forces of Fate . It is in the meeting of these " fell incensed opposites " that the tragedy consists . In Le Cid Chimène's pas ...
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Page 126 - Dieu et la nature sont en tout cela ce qu'il n'admire point; il ne va pas plus loin que l'oignon de sa tulipe, qu'il ne livrerait pas pour mille écus, et qu'il donnera pour rien quand les tulipes seront négligées et que les œillets auront prévalu. Cet homme raisonnable, qui a une âme, qui a un culte et une religion, revient chez soi fatigué, affamé, mais fort content de sa journée : il a vu des tulipes.
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 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.