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... light , clear verse and his still more graceful and poetical prose , a delicious atmosphere of delicate romance . It is " the tender eye - dawn of aurorean love " that he shows us - the happy , sweet , almost childish passion of two ...
... light , clear verse and his still more graceful and poetical prose , a delicious atmosphere of delicate romance . It is " the tender eye - dawn of aurorean love " that he shows us - the happy , sweet , almost childish passion of two ...
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... light that it throws on those principles of cunning statecraft which per- meated the politics and diplomacy of the age and were to receive their final exposition in the " Prince " of Machiavelli . In his calm , judicious , unaffected ...
... light that it throws on those principles of cunning statecraft which per- meated the politics and diplomacy of the age and were to receive their final exposition in the " Prince " of Machiavelli . In his calm , judicious , unaffected ...
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... light and varied measures , composed with such an exquisite happiness , such an un- laboured art . The songs are of Love and of Nature , of roses , skylarks , and kisses , of blue skies and natural joys . Sometimes there is a sadder THE ...
... light and varied measures , composed with such an exquisite happiness , such an un- laboured art . The songs are of Love and of Nature , of roses , skylarks , and kisses , of blue skies and natural joys . Sometimes there is a sadder THE ...
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... without " atmos- phere , " without local colour , but simply in the clear white light of reason , rivet our attention , and seem at last to seize upon our very souls . Their sentences , balanced , weighty 52 FRENCH LITERATURE.
... without " atmos- phere , " without local colour , but simply in the clear white light of reason , rivet our attention , and seem at last to seize upon our very souls . Their sentences , balanced , weighty 52 FRENCH LITERATURE.
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... light of the world . Yet , if it is true that a refined and splendid worldliness was the dominant characteristic of the literature of the age , it is no less true that here and there , in its greatest writers , a contrary tendency ...
... light of the world . Yet , if it is true that a refined and splendid worldliness was the dominant characteristic of the literature of the age , it is no less true that here and there , in its greatest writers , a contrary tendency ...
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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.