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Lytton Strachey. CONTENTS CHAP . I ORIGINS - THE MIDDLE AGES . · II THE RENAISSANCE III THE AGE OF TRANSITION IV THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV V THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . VI THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT VII THE AGE OF CRITICISM CONCLUSION ...
Lytton Strachey. CONTENTS CHAP . I ORIGINS - THE MIDDLE AGES . · II THE RENAISSANCE III THE AGE OF TRANSITION IV THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV V THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY . VI THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT VII THE AGE OF CRITICISM CONCLUSION ...
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... MIDDLE AGES WHEN the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilisation in Gaul , a new language was at the same time slowly evolved . This language , in spite of the complex influences which went to ...
... MIDDLE AGES WHEN the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilisation in Gaul , a new language was at the same time slowly evolved . This language , in spite of the complex influences which went to ...
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... repetition , re- arrangement , and at last degradation , through- out the Middle Ages . Originally they were not written , but recited . Their authors were the wandering minstrels , who found , in the crowds 8 FRENCH LITERATURE.
... repetition , re- arrangement , and at last degradation , through- out the Middle Ages . Originally they were not written , but recited . Their authors were the wandering minstrels , who found , in the crowds 8 FRENCH LITERATURE.
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... . Discarding ab- solutely the aids of ornament and the rhetori- cal elaboration of words , he has succeeded in evoking with an extraordinary , naked vivid- ness the scenes of strife and heroism which he describes ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES 9.
... . Discarding ab- solutely the aids of ornament and the rhetori- cal elaboration of words , he has succeeded in evoking with an extraordinary , naked vivid- ness the scenes of strife and heroism which he describes ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES 9.
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