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... master that Joinville has brought into his pages ; his book is as much a self- revelation as a biography . Unlike Villehar- douin , whose chronicle shows hardly a trace of personal feeling , Joinville speaks of him- self unceasingly ...
... master that Joinville has brought into his pages ; his book is as much a self- revelation as a biography . Unlike Villehar- douin , whose chronicle shows hardly a trace of personal feeling , Joinville speaks of him- self unceasingly ...
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... master . The purpose of Rabelais ' book cannot be summed up in a sentence . It may be de- scribed as the presentment of a point of view : but what point of view ? There lies the crux of the question , and numberless critics have ...
... master . The purpose of Rabelais ' book cannot be summed up in a sentence . It may be de- scribed as the presentment of a point of view : but what point of view ? There lies the crux of the question , and numberless critics have ...
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... masters of the sixteenth century . But in France the movement was checked ; and the result was a body of litera- ture , not only of the highest value , but also of a unique significance in European letters . The break in the Renaissance ...
... masters of the sixteenth century . But in France the movement was checked ; and the result was a body of litera- ture , not only of the highest value , but also of a unique significance in European letters . The break in the Renaissance ...
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... masters of the age of Louis XIV looked back to Malherbe as the intellectual father of their race . Malherbe's immediate influence , however , was very limited . Upon the generation of writers that followed him , his doctrines of ...
... masters of the age of Louis XIV looked back to Malherbe as the intellectual father of their race . Malherbe's immediate influence , however , was very limited . Upon the generation of writers that followed him , his doctrines of ...
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... He was above all things a rhetorician ; he was an instinctive master of those qualities in words which go to produce effects of passionate vehemence , vigorous precision , and culminating force . THE AGE OF TRANSITION 51.
... He was above all things a rhetorician ; he was an instinctive master of those qualities in words which go to produce effects of passionate vehemence , vigorous precision , and culminating force . THE AGE OF TRANSITION 51.
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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.