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... passion of two young creatures who move , in absolute innocence and beauty , through a wondrous world of their own . The youth Aucassin , who rides into the fight dreaming of his beloved , who sees her shining among the stars in heaven ...
... passion of two young creatures who move , in absolute innocence and beauty , through a wondrous world of their own . The youth Aucassin , who rides into the fight dreaming of his beloved , who sees her shining among the stars in heaven ...
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... passion , it is easy to hear one dominating note . It is the thought of mortality . The whining , leering , brooding creature can never for a moment forget that awful Shadow . He sees it in all its aspects- as a subject for mockery ...
... passion , it is easy to hear one dominating note . It is the thought of mortality . The whining , leering , brooding creature can never for a moment forget that awful Shadow . He sees it in all its aspects- as a subject for mockery ...
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... passion and striving and pain of those far - off genera- tions , and sinks mysteriously into silence with the birth of a new and happier world . CHAPTER II THE RENAISSANCE THERE is something dark and wintry ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES 25.
... passion and striving and pain of those far - off genera- tions , and sinks mysteriously into silence with the birth of a new and happier world . CHAPTER II THE RENAISSANCE THERE is something dark and wintry ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES 25.
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... passion of Louise Labé " Oh ! si j'étais en ce beau sein ravie De celui - là pour lequel vais mourant❞— falls upon our ears . And then , in the great Sonnet Sequence of Du Bellay - Les Anti- quités de Rome - we hear a splendid sound ...
... passion of Louise Labé " Oh ! si j'étais en ce beau sein ravie De celui - là pour lequel vais mourant❞— falls upon our ears . And then , in the great Sonnet Sequence of Du Bellay - Les Anti- quités de Rome - we hear a splendid sound ...
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... seventeenth century , the poetry of MALHERBE had given expression to new theories and new ideals . A man of powerful though narrow intelligence , a passionate theorist , and an ardent specialist in grammar THE AGE OF TRANSITION 43.
... seventeenth century , the poetry of MALHERBE had given expression to new theories and new ideals . A man of powerful though narrow intelligence , a passionate theorist , and an ardent specialist in grammar THE AGE OF TRANSITION 43.
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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.