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... important 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 ...
... important 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 ...
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... important poetical work of the thirteenth ( century - Le Roman de la Rose . The first part of this curious poem was composed by GUILLAUME DE LORRIS , a young scholar who wrote for that aristocratic public which , in the previous ...
... important poetical work of the thirteenth ( century - Le Roman de la Rose . The first part of this curious poem was composed by GUILLAUME DE LORRIS , a young scholar who wrote for that aristocratic public which , in the previous ...
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... important part in this develop- ment ; and his book is the record of the triumphant policy of his crafty and sagacious sovereign . It is a fine piece of history , written with lucidity and firmness , by a man who had spent all his life ...
... important part in this develop- ment ; and his book is the record of the triumphant policy of his crafty and sagacious sovereign . It is a fine piece of history , written with lucidity and firmness , by a man who had spent all his life ...
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... a number of converging causes , of which the most important were the diffusion of classical literature consequent upon the break - up of the Byzantine Empire at the hands of the Turks , the brilliant civilisation ' of 26 THE RENAISSANCE.
... a number of converging causes , of which the most important were the diffusion of classical literature consequent upon the break - up of the Byzantine Empire at the hands of the Turks , the brilliant civilisation ' of 26 THE RENAISSANCE.
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... important single achievement was their elevation of the " Alexandrine " verse the great twelve- syllabled rhyming couplet - to that place of undisputed superiority over all other metres which it has ever since held in French poetry ...
... important single achievement was their elevation of the " Alexandrine " verse the great twelve- syllabled rhyming couplet - to that place of undisputed superiority over all other metres which it has ever since held in French poetry ...
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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.