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... 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 work is in effect simply a poem - is not all sentiment and dreams . With ...
... 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 work is in effect simply a poem - is not all sentiment and dreams . With ...
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... perfect freedom and an absolute veracity . Nor is it only the charac- ter of his 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 ...
... perfect freedom and an absolute veracity . Nor is it only the charac- ter of his 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 ...
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... perfect exponent ; and it will be well there- fore to postpone a more detailed examination of the nature of that type until we come to consider Racine himself , the value of whose work is inextricably interwoven with its form . The ...
... perfect exponent ; and it will be well there- fore to postpone a more detailed examination of the nature of that type until we come to consider Racine himself , the value of whose work is inextricably interwoven with its form . The ...
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... perfect manners - majes- tic without pretension , expressive without emphasis , simple without carelessness , and subtle without affectation . These are the dominating qualities in the style of that great body of literature , which has ...
... perfect manners - majes- tic without pretension , expressive without emphasis , simple without carelessness , and subtle without affectation . These are the dominating qualities in the style of that great body of literature , which has ...
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... perfect expression , the spirit of this world — its great- ness , its splendour , its intensity , the human drama that animates it , the ordered beauty towards which it tends . For that was an age in which the world , in all the ...
... perfect expression , the spirit of this world — its great- ness , its splendour , its intensity , the human drama that animates it , the ordered beauty towards which it tends . For that was an age in which the world , in all the ...
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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.