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... perhaps the emptiest in the annals of her literature . In the fourteenth century one great writer embodied the character of the time . FROIS- SART has filled his splendid pages with " the pomp and circumstance of glorious war . " Though ...
... perhaps the emptiest in the annals of her literature . In the fourteenth century one great writer embodied the character of the time . FROIS- SART has filled his splendid pages with " the pomp and circumstance of glorious war . " Though ...
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... Perhaps the Riddle of the Universe would be solved by the oracle of la dive Bouteille . Rabelais ' book is a history of giants , and it is itself gigantic ; it is as broad as Gargantua himself . It seems to belong to the morning of the ...
... Perhaps the Riddle of the Universe would be solved by the oracle of la dive Bouteille . Rabelais ' book is a history of giants , and it is itself gigantic ; it is as broad as Gargantua himself . It seems to belong to the morning of the ...
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... perhaps somewhat obscured the real position that he fills in literature . It is impossible to deny that , both as a writer and as a thinker , he has faults - and grave ones . His style , with all its delightful abundance , its ...
... perhaps somewhat obscured the real position that he fills in literature . It is impossible to deny that , both as a writer and as a thinker , he has faults - and grave ones . His style , with all its delightful abundance , its ...
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Lytton Strachey. bitter and desperate resistance on its part . On the whole , perhaps the most important function performed by the Academy has been a more indirect one . The mere existence of a body of writers officially recognised by ...
Lytton Strachey. bitter and desperate resistance on its part . On the whole , perhaps the most important function performed by the Academy has been a more indirect one . The mere existence of a body of writers officially recognised by ...
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... perhaps , the more keenly for its strangeness - its dissimilarity to the experiences of our own days . We shall catch glimpses of a world of pomp and bril- liance , of ceremony and decoration , a small , vital passionate world which has ...
... perhaps , the more keenly for its strangeness - its dissimilarity to the experiences of our own days . We shall catch glimpses of a world of pomp and bril- liance , of ceremony and decoration , a small , vital passionate world which has ...
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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.