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... character . In the crucible of the facile and successful CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES , who wrote towards the close of the twelfth century , they assumed a new complexion ; their mystical strangeness became transmuted into the more commonplace ...
... character . In the crucible of the facile and successful CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES , who wrote towards the close of the twelfth century , they assumed a new complexion ; their mystical strangeness became transmuted into the more commonplace ...
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... to see in them , compressed and symbolised in the characters of these two friends , the conflicting qualities of sense and spirit , of worldliness and self - immolation , of the most shrewd ORIGINS - THE MIDDLE AGES 17.
... to see in them , compressed and symbolised in the characters of these two friends , the conflicting qualities of sense and spirit , of worldliness and self - immolation , of the most shrewd ORIGINS - THE MIDDLE AGES 17.
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... character of the time . FROIS- SART has filled his splendid pages with " the pomp and circumstance of glorious war . " Though he spent many years and a large part of his fortune in the collection of materials for his history of the wars ...
... character of the time . FROIS- SART has filled his splendid pages with " the pomp and circumstance of glorious war . " Though he spent many years and a large part of his fortune in the collection of materials for his history of the wars ...
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... character ; his melancholy was shot with irony and laughter ; sensuality and sentimentality both mingled with his finest imaginations and his profoundest visions ; and all these qualities are reflected , shifting and iridescent , in the ...
... character ; his melancholy was shot with irony and laughter ; sensuality and sentimentality both mingled with his finest imaginations and his profoundest visions ; and all these qualities are reflected , shifting and iridescent , in the ...
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... characters display a superhuman courage and constancy and self - control . They are ideal figures , speaking with a force and an elevation unknown in actual experi- ence ; they never blench , they never waver , but move adamantine to ...
... characters display a superhuman courage and constancy and self - control . They are ideal figures , speaking with a force and an elevation unknown in actual experi- ence ; they never blench , they never waver , but move adamantine to ...
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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.