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... true vein of sensibility and taste , we find a surprising vigour of perception and a remark- able psychological power . Resembling the Fabliaux in their realism and their bourgeois outlook , but far more delicate and witty , the group ...
... true vein of sensibility and taste , we find a surprising vigour of perception and a remark- able psychological power . Resembling the Fabliaux in their realism and their bourgeois outlook , but far more delicate and witty , the group ...
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... in French litera- ture . In virtue alike of his popularisation of an encyclopædic store of knowledge and of his underlying doctrine - the worship of Na- ture he ranks as a true forerunner of the great ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES 19.
... in French litera- ture . In virtue alike of his popularisation of an encyclopædic store of knowledge and of his underlying doctrine - the worship of Na- ture he ranks as a true forerunner of the great ORIGINS THE MIDDLE AGES 19.
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... true grasp of the movements of the age , have rarely been paralleled in the brilliance and animation of their descriptions , the vigour of their charac- ter - drawing , the flowing picturesqueness of their style . They unroll themselves ...
... true grasp of the movements of the age , have rarely been paralleled in the brilliance and animation of their descriptions , the vigour of their charac- ter - drawing , the flowing picturesqueness of their style . They unroll themselves ...
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... true bent either of their own language or their own powers . This is especially obvious in the longer poems of Ronsard - his Odes and his Franciade - where all the effort and skill of the poet have not been enough to save his verse from ...
... true bent either of their own language or their own powers . This is especially obvious in the longer poems of Ronsard - his Odes and his Franciade - where all the effort and skill of the poet have not been enough to save his verse from ...
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... true eminence . Montaigne was neither a great artist nor a great philosopher ; he was not great at all . He was a charming , admirable human being , with the most en- gaging gift for conversing endlessly and con- fidentially through the ...
... true eminence . Montaigne was neither a great artist nor a great philosopher ; he was not great at all . He was a charming , admirable human being , with the most en- gaging gift for conversing endlessly and con- fidentially through 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.