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Page 109
... complete failure . An extraordinary change then took place in Racine's mind . A revulsion of feel- ing , the precise causes of which are to this day a mystery , led him suddenly to renounce the world , to retire into the solitude of ...
... complete failure . An extraordinary change then took place in Racine's mind . A revulsion of feel- ing , the precise causes of which are to this day a mystery , led him suddenly to renounce the world , to retire into the solitude of ...
Page 111
... complete . Among all the wonderful ( and beautiful examples of masterly crafts- manship in the poetry of France , the Fables of La Fontaine stand out as the models of what perfect art should be . The main conception of the Fables was ...
... complete . Among all the wonderful ( and beautiful examples of masterly crafts- manship in the poetry of France , the Fables of La Fontaine stand out as the models of what perfect art should be . The main conception of the Fables was ...
Page 124
... he throws his apothegms into an infinite variety of moulds , employing a wide and coloured vocabulary , and a complete mastery of the art of rhetori- cal effect . Among these short reflections he has scattered 124 FRENCH LITERATURE.
... he throws his apothegms into an infinite variety of moulds , employing a wide and coloured vocabulary , and a complete mastery of the art of rhetori- cal effect . Among these short reflections he has scattered 124 FRENCH LITERATURE.
Page 135
... complete expres- sion of the new spirit , in all its aspects . In the Lettres Persanes of MONTESQUIEU ( pub- lished 1721 ) may be discerned the germs of the whole thought of the eighteenth century in France . The scheme of this charming ...
... complete expres- sion of the new spirit , in all its aspects . In the Lettres Persanes of MONTESQUIEU ( pub- lished 1721 ) may be discerned the germs of the whole thought of the eighteenth century in France . The scheme of this charming ...
Page 140
... complete oblivion . It was as a poet , and particularly as a tragic poet , that he won his fame ; and it was primarily as a poet that he continued to be known to his contempo- raries during the first sixty years of his life ( 1694-1754 ) ...
... complete oblivion . It was as a poet , and particularly as a tragic poet , that he won his fame ; and it was primarily as a poet that he continued to be known to his contempo- raries during the first sixty years of his life ( 1694-1754 ) ...
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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!