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... once fragile and imperishable , of an enchanting work of art . The unknown author has created , in his light , clear verse and his still more graceful and poetical prose , a delicious atmosphere of delicate romance . It is " the tender ...
... once fragile and imperishable , of an enchanting work of art . The unknown author has created , in his light , clear verse and his still more graceful and poetical prose , a delicious atmosphere of delicate romance . It is " the tender ...
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... once brave and naïf , sensuous and spiritual , is as much the type of the perfect medieval lover as Romeo , with his ardour and his vitality , is of the Renais- sance one . But the poem - for in spite of the prose passages , the little ...
... once brave and naïf , sensuous and spiritual , is as much the type of the perfect medieval lover as Romeo , with his ardour and his vitality , is of the Renais- sance one . But the poem - for in spite of the prose passages , the little ...
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... once to a climax and a termination . His potent and melancholy voice vibrates with the accumulated passion and striving and pain of those far - off genera- tions , and sinks mysteriously into silence with the birth of a new and happier ...
... once to a climax and a termination . His potent and melancholy voice vibrates with the accumulated passion and striving and pain of those far - off genera- tions , and sinks mysteriously into silence with the birth of a new and happier ...
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... once the grey gloom lifts , and we are among the colours , the sunshine , and the bursting vitality of spring . The great intellectual and spiritual change which came over western Europe at the beginning of the sixteenth century was the ...
... once the grey gloom lifts , and we are among the colours , the sunshine , and the bursting vitality of spring . The great intellectual and spiritual change which came over western Europe at the beginning of the sixteenth century was the ...
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... once and for all , of the doctrine that literature was something essentially artistic ; it was Rabelais who showed that it possessed another quality -that it was a mighty instrument of thought . The intellectual effort of the Middle ...
... once and for all , of the doctrine that literature was something essentially artistic ; it was Rabelais who showed that it possessed another quality -that it was a mighty instrument of thought . The intellectual effort of the Middle ...
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age of Louis artistic Balzac beauty Bossuet brilliant Bruyère Chansons Chansons de Geste character characteristic charm CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES civilisation classical complete Corneille critical detail Diderot dominating doubt drama eighteenth century elaborate English exquisite extraordinary fact feeling Flaubert Fontaine French literature genius human ideals imagination immense important infinitely influence intensity Jean de Meung language Les Misérables letters Lettres Provinciales literary literature of France Louis XIV master medieval melancholy ment Middle Ages mind modern Molière Molière's Montaigne Montesquieu movement nature ness never noble Paris Parnassiens Pascal passion perfect Philosophes play poems poet poetical poetry political precisely produced Professor profound prose qualities Rabelais Racine Racine's reader realise Renaissance rhetoric Romantic Rousseau Saint-Simon seems sense sentences Shakespeare soul spirit splendid splendour strange style subtle things thought tion tradition tragedy triumph true truth University verse Victor Hugo vision Voltaire Voltaire's whole words writers
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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.