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... Hugo . For throughout his work that wonderful writer expressed in their extreme forms the qualities and the defects of his school . Above all , he was the supreme lord of words . In sheer facility , in sheer abundance of lan- guage ...
... Hugo . For throughout his work that wonderful writer expressed in their extreme forms the qualities and the defects of his school . Above all , he was the supreme lord of words . In sheer facility , in sheer abundance of lan- guage ...
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... Hugo were very far from being equal to his gifts of expression and imagination . He had the powers of a great genius and the soul of an ordinary man . But that was not all . There have been writers of the highest excellence Saint- Simon ...
... Hugo were very far from being equal to his gifts of expression and imagination . He had the powers of a great genius and the soul of an ordinary man . But that was not all . There have been writers of the highest excellence Saint- Simon ...
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... Hugo's works . To the young and enthusiastic one the case is different . For him it is easy to forget - or even not to observe what there may be in that imposing figure that is unsatisfactory and second - rate . He may revel at will in ...
... Hugo's works . To the young and enthusiastic one the case is different . For him it is easy to forget - or even not to observe what there may be in that imposing figure that is unsatisfactory and second - rate . He may revel at will in ...
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... Hugo : in that of ALFRED DE VIGNY it is the first that dominates ; in that of ALFRED DE MUSSET , the second . Vigny wrote sparingly -one or two plays , a few prose works , and a small volume of poems ; but he produced some masterpieces ...
... Hugo : in that of ALFRED DE VIGNY it is the first that dominates ; in that of ALFRED DE MUSSET , the second . Vigny wrote sparingly -one or two plays , a few prose works , and a small volume of poems ; but he produced some masterpieces ...
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... Hugo is great ; but yet it is a difference merely of degree . Les Misérables is the consummation of the romantic conception of fiction which Rousseau had adumbrated half a century before . In that enormous work , Hugo attempted to ...
... Hugo is great ; but yet it is a difference merely of degree . Les Misérables is the consummation of the romantic conception of fiction which Rousseau had adumbrated half a century before . In that enormous work , Hugo attempted to ...
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Page 71 - Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come, Can yet the lease of my true love control, Supposed as forfeit to a confined doom.
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 129 - Les choses les plus souhaitées n'arrivent point ; ou , si elles arrivent, ce n'est ni dans le temps ni dans les circonstances où elles auraient fait un extrême plaisir.
Page 128 - L'on voit * certains animaux farouches , des mâles et des femelles, répandus par la campagne, noirs , livides, et tout brûlés du soleil, attachés à la terre qu'ils fouillent et qu'ils remuent avec une opiniâtreté invincible : ils ont comme une voix articulée ; et quand ils se lèvent sur leurs pieds , ils montrent une face humaine , et en effet ils sont des hommes.
Page 126 - ... a pris racine au milieu de ses tulipes et devant la Solitaire; il ouvre de grands yeux, il frotte ses mains, il se baisse, il la voit de plus près, il ne l'a jamais vue si belle, il a le cœur épanoui de joie; il la...
Page 60 - Nous sommes plaisants de nous reposer dans la société de nos semblables : misérables comme nous, impuissants comme nous, ils ne nous aideront pas; on mourra seul.
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.
Page 123 - Nous pardonnons souvent à ceux qui nous ennuient, mais nous ne pouvons pardonner à ceux que nous ennuyons.
Page 14 - ... n'ai jou que faire. Mais en infer voil jou aler, car en infer vont li bel clerc, et li bel cevalier qui sont mort as tornois et as rices gueres, et li...
Page 240 - Oui l'oeuvre sort plus belle D'une forme au travail Rebelle, Vers, marbre, onyx, émail!