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... expression . The mere fact that the Pléiade formed a definite school , with common principles and a fixed poetical creed , differentiates them in a striking way from the poets who had preceded them . They worked with no casual purpose ...
... expression . The mere fact that the Pléiade formed a definite school , with common principles and a fixed poetical creed , differentiates them in a striking way from the poets who had preceded them . They worked with no casual purpose ...
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... expression of one of the most fundamental qualities of his mind - its jovial acceptance of the physical facts of life . Another side of the same characteristic appears in his glorification of eating and drinking : such things were part ...
... expression of one of the most fundamental qualities of his mind - its jovial acceptance of the physical facts of life . Another side of the same characteristic appears in his glorification of eating and drinking : such things were part ...
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... the seventeenth century , the poetry of MALHERBE had given expression to new theories and new ideals . A man of powerful though narrow intelligence , a passionate theorist , and an ardent specialist in grammar THE AGE OF TRANSITION 43.
... the seventeenth century , the poetry of MALHERBE had given expression to new theories and new ideals . A man of powerful though narrow intelligence , a passionate theorist , and an ardent specialist in grammar THE AGE OF TRANSITION 43.
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... expression of the ideals of a great age . And what were these ideals ? The fact that the conception of society which made Versailles possible was narrow and unjust must not blind us to the real nobility and the real glory which it ...
... expression of the ideals of a great age . And what were these ideals ? The fact that the conception of society which made Versailles possible was narrow and unjust must not blind us to the real nobility and the real glory which it ...
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... expression , the spirit of this world — its great- ness , its splendour , its intensity , the human drama that animates it , the ordered beauty towards which it tends . For that was an age in which the world , in all the plenitude of ...
... expression , the spirit of this world — its great- ness , its splendour , its intensity , the human drama that animates it , the ordered beauty towards which it tends . For that was an age in which the world , in all the plenitude of ...
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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.