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... realism and its peculiar capacity for cutting satire these characteristics appear in the Fabliaux in all their completeness . In one or two of the stories , when the writer possesses a true vein of sensibility and taste , we find a ...
... realism and its peculiar capacity for cutting satire these characteristics appear in the Fabliaux in all their completeness . In one or two of the stories , when the writer possesses a true vein of sensibility and taste , we find a ...
Page 14
... is not all sentiment and dreams . With admirable art the author has interspersed here and there contrasting episodes of realism or of absurdity ; he has woven into his story a succession of vivid dialogues , 14 FRENCH LITERATURE.
... is not all sentiment and dreams . With admirable art the author has interspersed here and there contrasting episodes of realism or of absurdity ; he has woven into his story a succession of vivid dialogues , 14 FRENCH LITERATURE.
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... realism and coarseness of the middle class of that day . Lorris's vapid allegory faded into insignificance , be- coming a mere peg for a huge mass of ex- traordinarily varied discourse . The whole of the scholastic learning of the ...
... realism and coarseness of the middle class of that day . Lorris's vapid allegory faded into insignificance , be- coming a mere peg for a huge mass of ex- traordinarily varied discourse . The whole of the scholastic learning of the ...
Page 81
... realist to the core ; and he understood that the true subject of comedy was to be found in the actual facts of human society - in the affectations of fools , the ab- surdities of cranks , the stupidities of dupes , the audacities of ...
... realist to the core ; and he understood that the true subject of comedy was to be found in the actual facts of human society - in the affectations of fools , the ab- surdities of cranks , the stupidities of dupes , the audacities of ...
Page 201
... has produced that remark- able and persistent strain of Realism - of absolute fidelity to the naked truth - common to the earliest Fabliaux of the Middle Ages and the latest Parisian novel of to - day . THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT 201.
... has produced that remark- able and persistent strain of Realism - of absolute fidelity to the naked truth - common to the earliest Fabliaux of the Middle Ages and the latest Parisian novel of to - day . THE ROMANTIC MOVEMENT 201.
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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.