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... MOVEMENT VII THE AGE OF CRITICISM CONCLUSION • · CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF AUTHORS AND THEIR PRINCIPAL WORKS · BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE INDEX PAGE 7 26 42 62 132 199 232 244 248 · 253 255 î این گه نامه دستم اگر LANDMARKS IN FRENCH LITERATURE.
... MOVEMENT VII THE AGE OF CRITICISM CONCLUSION • · CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF AUTHORS AND THEIR PRINCIPAL WORKS · BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE INDEX PAGE 7 26 42 62 132 199 232 244 248 · 253 255 î این گه نامه دستم اگر LANDMARKS IN FRENCH LITERATURE.
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... movement into his words . His description of the great fleet of the crusaders , starting from Corfu , has this fine sentence : " Et le jour fut clair et beau : et le vent doux et bon . Et ils laissèrent aller les voiles au vent . " His ...
... movement into his words . His description of the great fleet of the crusaders , starting from Corfu , has this fine sentence : " Et le jour fut clair et beau : et le vent doux et bon . Et ils laissèrent aller les voiles au vent . " His ...
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Lytton Strachey. ture he ranks as a true forerunner of the great movement of the Renaissance . The intellectual ... movements of the age , have rarely been paralleled in the brilliance and animation of their descriptions , the vigour of ...
Lytton Strachey. ture he ranks as a true forerunner of the great movement of the Renaissance . The intellectual ... movements of the age , have rarely been paralleled in the brilliance and animation of their descriptions , the vigour of ...
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... movement which was to convert the old Europe of the Middle Ages , with its universal Empire and its universal Church , into the new Europe of independent secular nations — the Europe of to - day . Commynes thus stands on the brink of ...
... movement which was to convert the old Europe of the Middle Ages , with its universal Empire and its universal Church , into the new Europe of independent secular nations — the Europe of to - day . Commynes thus stands on the brink of ...
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... movements , a great new development was germinating , slowly , surely , and almost unobserved . From one point of view ... movement , which had given birth to the Pléiade , to Rabelais , and to Montaigne , had 42 THE AGE OF TRANSITION.
... movements , a great new development was germinating , slowly , surely , and almost unobserved . From one point of view ... movement , which had given birth to the Pléiade , to Rabelais , and to Montaigne , had 42 THE AGE OF TRANSITION.
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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.