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... feeling , Joinville speaks of him- self unceasingly , and has impressed his work indelibly with the mark of his own indi- viduality . Much of its charm depends upon the contrast which he thus almost uncon- sciously reveals between ...
... feeling , Joinville speaks of him- self unceasingly , and has impressed his work indelibly with the mark of his own indi- viduality . Much of its charm depends upon the contrast which he thus almost uncon- sciously reveals between ...
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... feels the sway and the press and the tumult , one laments with the van- quished , one exults with the victors , and , amid the glittering panoply of " grant seigneur , conte , baron , chevalier , et escuier " with their high - sounding ...
... feels the sway and the press and the tumult , one laments with the van- quished , one exults with the victors , and , amid the glittering panoply of " grant seigneur , conte , baron , chevalier , et escuier " with their high - sounding ...
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... feelings of a soul . The bulk of his work is not large . In his Grand Testament — a poem of about 1500 lines , containing a number of interspersed ballades and rondeaus - in his Petit Testament , and in a small number of miscellaneous ...
... feelings of a soul . The bulk of his work is not large . In his Grand Testament — a poem of about 1500 lines , containing a number of interspersed ballades and rondeaus - in his Petit Testament , and in a small number of miscellaneous ...
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... feeling for the beauty and grandeur of high thoughts . He was essentially an ora- torical poet ; but unfortunately the only forms of verse ready to his hand were lyrical forms ; so that his genius never found a full scope for its powers ...
... feeling for the beauty and grandeur of high thoughts . He was essentially an ora- torical poet ; but unfortunately the only forms of verse ready to his hand were lyrical forms ; so that his genius never found a full scope for its powers ...
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... feeling ; but that of intellectual excitement and spiritual strength . It is the poetry of Malherbe multiplied a thousand- fold in vigour and in genius , and expressed in the form most appropriate to it - the dra- matic Alexandrine ...
... feeling ; but that of intellectual excitement and spiritual strength . It is the poetry of Malherbe multiplied a thousand- fold in vigour and in genius , and expressed in the form most appropriate to it - the dra- matic Alexandrine ...
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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.