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Page 95
... goût , il s'égare et vous égare dans les fourrés de son jardin . Point du tout ; s'il parle ainsi , ce n'est point par choix , c'est par force ; la métaphore n'est pas le caprice de sa volonté , mais la forme de sa pensée . Au plus fort ...
... goût , il s'égare et vous égare dans les fourrés de son jardin . Point du tout ; s'il parle ainsi , ce n'est point par choix , c'est par force ; la métaphore n'est pas le caprice de sa volonté , mais la forme de sa pensée . Au plus fort ...
Page 102
... ; il fuira comme un scan- dale tout mot ignoble et cru ; il mettra partout la raison , la grandeur et le bon goût ; il supprimera la familiarité , les enfantillages , les naïvetés , le 102 LIVRE II . LA RENAISSANCE .
... ; il fuira comme un scan- dale tout mot ignoble et cru ; il mettra partout la raison , la grandeur et le bon goût ; il supprimera la familiarité , les enfantillages , les naïvetés , le 102 LIVRE II . LA RENAISSANCE .
Page 126
... goût du temps était aux mascarades ; leur entretien est une mascarade d'idées . Il ne disent rien en style simple ; ils ne cherchent qu'à entasser des choses subtiles , recherchées , difficiles à inventer et à comprendre ; toutes leurs ...
... goût du temps était aux mascarades ; leur entretien est une mascarade d'idées . Il ne disent rien en style simple ; ils ne cherchent qu'à entasser des choses subtiles , recherchées , difficiles à inventer et à comprendre ; toutes leurs ...
Page 160
... goût des arts , aimé du plus noble père , épris de la plus pure et de la plus charmante des filles , confiant , géné- reux , n'ayant aperçu encore , du haut du trône où il est né , que la beauté , le bonheur et les grandeurs de la ...
... goût des arts , aimé du plus noble père , épris de la plus pure et de la plus charmante des filles , confiant , géné- reux , n'ayant aperçu encore , du haut du trône où il est né , que la beauté , le bonheur et les grandeurs de la ...
Page 183
... goût , plus rien . < - - - Comme il vous plaira est un demi - rêve . Le Songe d'une Nuit d'été est un rêve complet . La scène , s'enfonçant dans le lointain vaporeux de l'antiquité fabuleuse , recule jusqu'à Thésée , qui pare son palais ...
... goût , plus rien . < - - - Comme il vous plaira est un demi - rêve . Le Songe d'une Nuit d'été est un rêve complet . La scène , s'enfonçant dans le lointain vaporeux de l'antiquité fabuleuse , recule jusqu'à Thésée , qui pare son palais ...
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âme ANGL anglais Areopagitica beau beauté belle Ben Jonson breath chant Charles Sedley choses ciel cœur comédie CORBACCIO CORVINO coup courtisans Dieu doth Dryden Edmund Waller Épicure esprit eyes Falstaff femme fille first gens give good goût great Hamlet hand hath head heart heaven hold homme husband idées images Jonson kiss know l'âme l'amour l'esprit l'homme l'imagination lady life light LITT little look lord love made main make ment MILLAMANT Milton mind mistress mœurs Molière monde morale Morose MOSCA nature never night noble paroles passion pensée personnages philosophie phrases pièce plaisir poëme poésie poëte puritains raison reason religion reste Rochester roses satire scène seest Seigneur Séjan sent seul Shakspeare sorte soul style sweet take théâtre things think thou thought time tion Titien vice voilà Volpone VOLTORE William Temple woman world Wycherley yeux
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Page 392 - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise ; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine...
Page 156 - Methought I heard a voice cry " Sleep no more ! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast, — Lady M. What do you mean ? Macb. Still it cried "Sleep no more!" to all the house: "Glamis hath murder'd sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more ; Macbeth shall sleep no more !
Page 325 - Now just as the Gates were opened to let in the men, I looked in after them, and behold, the City shone like the Sun; the Streets also were paved with Gold, and in them walked many men, with Crowns on their heads, Palms in their hands, and golden Harps to sing praises withal. There were also of them that had wings, and they answered one another without intermission, saying, Holy, Holy, Holy, is the Lord And after that they shut up the Gates.
Page 392 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 98 - Such an act, That blurs the grace and blush of modesty; Calls virtue, hypocrite; takes off the rose From the fair forehead of an innocent love, And sets a blister there; makes marriage vows As false as dicers...
Page 390 - ... to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Page 376 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 430 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 368 - ... methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance ; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Page 266 - ... loud sighings of an eastern wind, and his motion made irregular and inconstant, descending more at every breath of the tempest, than it could recover by the libration and frequent weighing of his wings; till the little ' creature was forced to sit down and pant, and stay till the storm was over; and then it made a prosperous flight, and did rise and sing, as if it had learned music and motion from an angel, as he passed sometimes through the air about his ministries here below. So is the prayer...