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Lytton Strachey. Renaissance inaugurated a new era in French literature . The new artistic views of the age first appeared , as was natural , in the domain of poetry . The change was one towards con- sciousness and deliberate , self ...
Lytton Strachey. Renaissance inaugurated a new era in French literature . The new artistic views of the age first appeared , as was natural , in the domain of poetry . The change was one towards con- sciousness and deliberate , self ...
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... artistic finish , was really adequate to fulfil the highest demands of genius . In this direction their most important single achievement was their elevation of the " Alexandrine " verse the great twelve- syllabled rhyming couplet - to ...
... artistic finish , was really adequate to fulfil the highest demands of genius . In this direction their most important single achievement was their elevation of the " Alexandrine " verse the great twelve- syllabled rhyming couplet - to ...
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... artistic ; it was Rabelais who showed that it possessed another quality -that it was a mighty instrument of thought . The intellectual effort of the Middle Ages had very rarely clothed itself in an artistic literary form . Men laughed ...
... artistic ; it was Rabelais who showed that it possessed another quality -that it was a mighty instrument of thought . The intellectual effort of the Middle Ages had very rarely clothed itself in an artistic literary form . Men laughed ...
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... represen- tative is the Cléopâtre of Jodelle . Corneille's achievement was based upon a combination of what was best in these two movements . The work of Jodelle , written with a genuinely artistic THE AGE OF TRANSITION 49.
... represen- tative is the Cléopâtre of Jodelle . Corneille's achievement was based upon a combination of what was best in these two movements . The work of Jodelle , written with a genuinely artistic THE AGE OF TRANSITION 49.
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Lytton Strachey. The work of Jodelle , written with a genuinely artistic intention , was nevertheless a dead thing on the stage ; while Hardy's melo- dramas , bursting as they were with vitality , were too barbaric to rank as serious ...
Lytton Strachey. The work of Jodelle , written with a genuinely artistic intention , was nevertheless a dead thing on the stage ; while Hardy's melo- dramas , bursting as they were with vitality , were too barbaric to rank as serious ...
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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.