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... writers to obtain those effects of diversity , of contrast , of imaginative strange- ness , which have played such a dominating part in our literature . The genius of the French language , descended from its single Latin stock , has ...
... writers to obtain those effects of diversity , of contrast , of imaginative strange- ness , which have played such a dominating part in our literature . The genius of the French language , descended from its single Latin stock , has ...
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... writers into the unambiguous elegances of civilised life . Both the Chansons de Geste and the Romans Bretons were aristocratic literature : they were concerned with the life and ideals - the mar- tial prowess , the chivalric devotion ...
... writers into the unambiguous elegances of civilised life . Both the Chansons de Geste and the Romans Bretons were aristocratic literature : they were concerned with the life and ideals - the mar- tial prowess , the chivalric devotion ...
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... writer possesses a 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 ...
... writer possesses a 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 ...
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... writer , and partly by Ovid , it was the aim of Lorris to produce an Art of Love , brought up to date , and adapted to the tastes of his aristocratic audience , with all the elaborate paraphernalia of learned disquisition and formal ...
... writer , and partly by Ovid , it was the aim of Lorris to produce an Art of Love , brought up to date , and adapted to the tastes of his aristocratic audience , with all the elaborate paraphernalia of learned disquisition and formal ...
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... writer embodied the character of the time . FROIS- SART has filled his splendid pages with " the pomp and circumstance of glorious war . " Though he spent many years and a large part of his fortune in the collection of materials for his ...
... writer embodied the character of the time . FROIS- SART has filled his splendid pages with " the pomp and circumstance of glorious war . " Though he spent many years and a large part of his fortune in the collection of materials for his ...
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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.