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... successful CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES , who wrote towards the close of the twelfth century , they assumed a new complexion ; their mystical strangeness became transmuted into the more commonplace magic of wizards and conjurers , while their ...
... successful CHRÉTIEN DE TROYES , who wrote towards the close of the twelfth century , they assumed a new complexion ; their mystical strangeness became transmuted into the more commonplace magic of wizards and conjurers , while their ...
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... success . Henceforward it was certain that French drama would develop along the path which had been opened out for it so triumphantly by the Cid . But what was that path ? Nothing shows more strikingly the strength of the literary ...
... success . Henceforward it was certain that French drama would develop along the path which had been opened out for it so triumphantly by the Cid . But what was that path ? Nothing shows more strikingly the strength of the literary ...
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... success . At a bound France won the headship of Europe ; and when at last , defeated in arms and politically shattered , she was forced to relinquish her dreams of worldly power , her pre - eminence in the arts of peace remained ...
... success . At a bound France won the headship of Europe ; and when at last , defeated in arms and politically shattered , she was forced to relinquish her dreams of worldly power , her pre - eminence in the arts of peace remained ...
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... successful man . Yet , even during these years of prosperity , he was far from being free from troubles . He was obliged to struggle incessantly against the intrigues of his enemies , among whom the ecclesiastical authorities were the ...
... successful man . Yet , even during these years of prosperity , he was far from being free from troubles . He was obliged to struggle incessantly against the intrigues of his enemies , among whom the ecclesiastical authorities were the ...
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... successful . One has only to look at some of his secondary plays - at Troilus and Cressida , for instance , or Timon of Athens -to see at once how inveterate and malignant were the diseases to which the dramatic methods of the ...
... successful . One has only to look at some of his secondary plays - at Troilus and Cressida , for instance , or Timon of Athens -to see at once how inveterate and malignant were the diseases to which the dramatic methods of 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.