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... less clearly than the aristocratic Chansons , some of the most abiding qualities of the French genius . Its innate love of absolute realism and its peculiar capacity for cutting satire these characteristics appear in the Fabliaux in all ...
... less clearly than the aristocratic Chansons , some of the most abiding qualities of the French genius . Its innate love of absolute realism and its peculiar capacity for cutting satire these characteristics appear in the Fabliaux in all ...
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... less complete , though of a different nature , is to be found in the most 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 ...
... less complete , though of a different nature , is to be found in the most 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 ...
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... other metres which it has ever since held in French poetry . But the Pléiade's respect for classical mod- els led to another and a far less fortunate result . They allowed their erudition to im pinge upon 30 FRENCH LITERATURE.
... other metres which it has ever since held in French poetry . But the Pléiade's respect for classical mod- els led to another and a far less fortunate result . They allowed their erudition to im pinge upon 30 FRENCH LITERATURE.
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... ; but he was far less interesting . It was in the gentle , personal , everyday things of life that his nature triumphed . Here and there in his Essays , this simple goodness wells up clear and pure ; and in the 40 FRENCH LITERATURE.
... ; but he was far less interesting . It was in the gentle , personal , everyday things of life that his nature triumphed . Here and there in his Essays , this simple goodness wells up clear and pure ; and in the 40 FRENCH LITERATURE.
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... less the result of their inability to write well than of their desperate efforts to do so . They were trying , as hard as they could , to wriggle themselves into a beautiful pose ; and , natu- rally enough , they were unsuccessful ...
... less the result of their inability to write well than of their desperate efforts to do so . They were trying , as hard as they could , to wriggle themselves into a beautiful pose ; and , natu- rally enough , they were unsuccessful ...
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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.