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... language triumphed at first , it was eventually affected in the profoundest way by Latin influences ; and the result has been that 7 English literature bears in all its phases the imprint of add cop CHAP ORIGINS - THE MIDDLE AGES.
... language triumphed at first , it was eventually affected in the profoundest way by Latin influences ; and the result has been that 7 English literature bears in all its phases the imprint of add cop CHAP ORIGINS - THE MIDDLE AGES.
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... English reader to notice is that this great difference does exist between the French language and his own . The complex origin of the English tongue has enabled English writers to obtain those effects of diversity , of contrast , of ...
... English reader to notice is that this great difference does exist between the French language and his own . The complex origin of the English tongue has enabled English writers to obtain those effects of diversity , of contrast , of ...
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... English writers would have denied that they were men of letters ! — Scott , Byron , Gray , Sir Thomas Browne , per- haps even Shakespeare himself . When Con- greve begged Voltaire not to talk of literature , but to regard him merely as ...
... English writers would have denied that they were men of letters ! — Scott , Byron , Gray , Sir Thomas Browne , per- haps even Shakespeare himself . When Con- greve begged Voltaire not to talk of literature , but to regard him merely as ...
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... English Elizabethans , but the classical type of Senecan tragedy which Jodelle had imitated , and which was alone tolerable to the French critics of the seventeenth century . Instead of making the vital drama of Hardy artistic , he made ...
... English Elizabethans , but the classical type of Senecan tragedy which Jodelle had imitated , and which was alone tolerable to the French critics of the seventeenth century . Instead of making the vital drama of Hardy artistic , he made ...
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... English dramatist shows his persons to us in the round ; innumerable facets flash out quality after quality ; the subtlest and most elusive shades of temperament are indicated ; until at last the whole being takes shape before us ...
... English dramatist shows his persons to us in the round ; innumerable facets flash out quality after quality ; the subtlest and most elusive shades of temperament are indicated ; until at last the whole being takes shape before us ...
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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.