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... dominating part in our literature . The genius of the French language , descended from its single Latin stock , has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity , in unity , in clarity , and in restraint . Some of these ...
... dominating part in our literature . The genius of the French language , descended from its single Latin stock , has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity , in unity , in clarity , and in restraint . Some of these ...
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... dominating note . It is the thought of mortality . The whining , leering , brooding creature can never for a moment forget that awful Shadow . He sees it in all its aspects- as a subject for mockery , for penitence , for resignation ...
... dominating note . It is the thought of mortality . The whining , leering , brooding creature can never for a moment forget that awful Shadow . He sees it in all its aspects- as a subject for mockery , for penitence , for resignation ...
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... dominating theme . The Apologie de Raimond Sebond , the largest and the most elaborate of them , contains an immense and searching review of the errors , the incoher- ences , and the ignorance of humanity , from which Montaigne draws ...
... dominating theme . The Apologie de Raimond Sebond , the largest and the most elaborate of them , contains an immense and searching review of the errors , the incoher- ences , and the ignorance of humanity , from which Montaigne draws ...
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... dominating qualities of Corneille may be more easily appreciated . He was above all things a rhetorician ; he was an instinctive master of those qualities in words which go to produce effects of passionate vehemence , vigorous precision ...
... dominating qualities of Corneille may be more easily appreciated . He was above all things a rhetorician ; he was an instinctive master of those qualities in words which go to produce effects of passionate vehemence , vigorous precision ...
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... dominates these tragedies ; and their heroes , bursting with this extraor- dinary egoism , assume even more tower- ing proportions in their self - abnegation than in their pride . Then the thrilling clarion- notes of their defiances ...
... dominates these tragedies ; and their heroes , bursting with this extraor- dinary egoism , assume even more tower- ing proportions in their self - abnegation than in their pride . Then the thrilling clarion- notes of their defiances ...
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age of Louis artistic Balzac beauty Bossuet brilliant Bruyère Chansons Chansons de Geste character characteristic charm CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES civilisation classical complete Corneille critical detail Diderot dominating doubt drama eighteenth century elaborate English exquisite extraordinary fact feeling Flaubert Fontaine French literature genius human ideals imagination immense important infinitely influence intensity Jean de Meung language Les Misérables letters Lettres Provinciales literary literature of France Louis XIV master medieval melancholy ment Middle Ages mind modern Molière Molière's Montaigne Montesquieu movement nature ness never noble Paris Parnassiens Pascal passion perfect Philosophes play poems poet poetical poetry political precisely produced Professor profound prose qualities Rabelais Racine Racine's reader realise Renaissance rhetoric Romantic Rousseau Saint-Simon seems sense sentences Shakespeare soul spirit splendid splendour strange style subtle things thought tion tradition tragedy triumph true truth University verse Victor Hugo vision Voltaire Voltaire's whole words writers
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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.