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... effects of diversity , of contrast , of imaginative strange- ness , which have played such a dominating part in our literature . The genius of the French language , descended from its single Latin stock , has triumphed most in the ...
... effects of diversity , of contrast , of imaginative strange- ness , which have played such a dominating part in our literature . The genius of the French language , descended from its single Latin stock , has triumphed most in the ...
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... effect simply a poem - is not all sentiment and dreams . With admirable art the author has interspersed here and there contrasting episodes of realism or of absurdity ; he has woven into his story a succession of vivid dialogues , 14 ...
... effect simply a poem - is not all sentiment and dreams . With admirable art the author has interspersed here and there contrasting episodes of realism or of absurdity ; he has woven into his story a succession of vivid dialogues , 14 ...
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... effect on literature of these combined forces was enormous . In France particularly , under the strong and brilliant government of Francis I , there was an out- burst of original and vital writing . This literature , which begins , in ...
... effect on literature of these combined forces was enormous . In France particularly , under the strong and brilliant government of Francis I , there was an out- burst of original and vital writing . This literature , which begins , in ...
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... 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 , and culminating force . THE AGE OF TRANSITION 51.
... 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 , and culminating force . THE AGE OF TRANSITION 51.
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... effects as these ; and during his early years his great gifts of passion and rhetoric easily made up for the deficiency . As he grew older , however , his inspiration weakened ; his command of his material left him ; and he was no ...
... effects as these ; and during his early years his great gifts of passion and rhetoric easily made up for the deficiency . As he grew older , however , his inspiration weakened ; his command of his material left him ; and he was no ...
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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.