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... close of the twelfth century , they assumed a new complexion ; their mystical strangeness became transmuted into the more commonplace magic of wizards and conjurers , while their elevated , imma- terial conception of love was replaced ...
... close of the twelfth century , they assumed a new complexion ; their mystical strangeness became transmuted into the more commonplace magic of wizards and conjurers , while their elevated , imma- terial conception of love was replaced ...
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... close to her ! Nicolette is with thee there , My love of the yellow hair . " ) - who disdains the joys of Paradise , since they exclude the joys of loving- " En paradis qu'ai - je a faire ? Je ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES 13.
... close to her ! Nicolette is with thee there , My love of the yellow hair . " ) - who disdains the joys of Paradise , since they exclude the joys of loving- " En paradis qu'ai - je a faire ? Je ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES 13.
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... close tout autour à la ronde , et ces riches palais et ces hautes églises . Et sachez qu'il n'y eut si hardi à qui la chair ne frémit ; et ce ne fut une merveille ; car jamais si grande affaire ne fut entreprise de nulles gens , depuis ...
... close tout autour à la ronde , et ces riches palais et ces hautes églises . Et sachez qu'il n'y eut si hardi à qui la chair ne frémit ; et ce ne fut une merveille ; car jamais si grande affaire ne fut entreprise de nulles gens , depuis ...
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... close of the fifteenth century - the confusion and strife which Froissart had chronicled with such a gusto were things of the past , and France was beginning to emerge as a consolidated and centralised state . ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES 21.
... close of the fifteenth century - the confusion and strife which Froissart had chronicled with such a gusto were things of the past , and France was beginning to emerge as a consolidated and centralised state . ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES 21.
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... the grim imagination will not leave him . In the midst of his wildest de- bauches , he suddenly remembers the horrible features of decaying age ; he repents ; but there , close before him , he sees the fatal 24 FRENCH LITERATURE.
... the grim imagination will not leave him . In the midst of his wildest de- bauches , he suddenly remembers the horrible features of decaying age ; he repents ; but there , close before him , he sees the fatal 24 FRENCH LITERATURE.
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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.