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... fact for the English reader to notice is that this great difference does exist between the French language and his own . The complex origin of the English tongue has enabled English writers to obtain those effects of diversity , of ...
... fact for the English reader to notice is that this great difference does exist between the French language and his own . The complex origin of the English tongue has enabled English writers to obtain those effects of diversity , of ...
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Lytton Strachey. substance exceedingly gross . Their chief interest lies in the fact that they reveal , no less clearly than the aristocratic Chansons , some of the most abiding qualities of the French genius . Its innate love of ...
Lytton Strachey. substance exceedingly gross . Their chief interest lies in the fact that they reveal , no less clearly than the aristocratic Chansons , some of the most abiding qualities of the French genius . Its innate love of ...
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... 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 , no merely ...
... 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 , no merely ...
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... facts of life . Another side of the same characteristic appears in his glorification of eating and drinking : such things were part of the natural constitution of man , therefore let man enjoy them to the full . Who knows ? Perhaps the ...
... facts of life . Another side of the same characteristic appears in his glorification of eating and drinking : such things were part of the natural constitution of man , therefore let man enjoy them to the full . Who knows ? Perhaps the ...
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... fact , it was during this age that the conception was gradually evolved which determined the lines upon which all French literature in the future was to advance . It can hardly be doubted that if the fertile and varied Renaissance ...
... fact , it was during this age that the conception was gradually evolved which determined the lines upon which all French literature in the future was to advance . It can hardly be doubted that if the fertile and varied Renaissance ...
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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.