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... short verse narratives , the more ordinary conditions of middle - class life . These Fabliaux , as they were called , are on the whole of no great value as works of art ; their poetical form is usually poor , and their substance ...
... short verse narratives , the more ordinary conditions of middle - class life . These Fabliaux , as they were called , are on the whole of no great value as works of art ; their poetical form is usually poor , and their substance ...
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... short , too self - conscious ; but it was in this very self - consciousness that the real hope for the future lay . The teaching of Mal- herbe , if it did not influence the actual form of their work , at least impelled them towards a ...
... short , too self - conscious ; but it was in this very self - consciousness that the real hope for the future lay . The teaching of Mal- herbe , if it did not influence the actual form of their work , at least impelled them towards a ...
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... a consideration of the theory of Copernicus : it was more important , he declared , to think of the immortal soul . In the last years of his short life he sank into a torpor of superstition -ascetic 60 FRENCH LITERATURE.
... a consideration of the theory of Copernicus : it was more important , he declared , to think of the immortal soul . In the last years of his short life he sank into a torpor of superstition -ascetic 60 FRENCH LITERATURE.
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Lytton Strachey. short life he sank into a torpor of superstition -ascetic , self - mortified , and rapt in a strange exaltation , like a medieval monk . Thus there is a tragic antithesis in his character - an unresolved discord which ...
Lytton Strachey. short life he sank into a torpor of superstition -ascetic , self - mortified , and rapt in a strange exaltation , like a medieval monk . Thus there is a tragic antithesis in his character - an unresolved discord which ...
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... short epistle - A son Esprit - where his good sense , his wit , his lucid vigour , and his essential humanity find their consummate expression ; it is a spirit which still animates the literature of France . His teaching , however , so ...
... short epistle - A son Esprit - where his good sense , his wit , his lucid vigour , and his essential humanity find their consummate expression ; it is a spirit which still animates the literature of France . His teaching , however , so ...
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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.