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... and laughter ; sensuality and sentimentality both mingled with his finest imaginations and his profoundest visions ; and all these qualities are reflected , shifting and iridescent , in the magic ORIGINS - THE MIDDLE AGES 23.
... and laughter ; sensuality and sentimentality both mingled with his finest imaginations and his profoundest visions ; and all these qualities are reflected , shifting and iridescent , in the magic ORIGINS - THE MIDDLE AGES 23.
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... qualities are con- veyed to us , not by some mere conscientious pedant , or some clumsy enthusiast , but by a born writer - a man whose whole being was fixed and concentrated in an astonishing command of words . It is in the multitude ...
... qualities are con- veyed to us , not by some mere conscientious pedant , or some clumsy enthusiast , but by a born writer - a man whose whole being was fixed and concentrated in an astonishing command of words . It is in the multitude ...
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... qualities of his mind - its jovial acceptance of the physical facts of life . Another side of the same characteristic appears in his glorification of eating and drinking : such things were part of the natural constitution of man ...
... qualities of his mind - its jovial acceptance of the physical facts of life . Another side of the same characteristic appears in his glorification of eating and drinking : such things were part of the natural constitution of man ...
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... qualities of Corneille may be more easily appreciated . He was above all things a rhetorician ; he was an instinctive master of those qualities in words which go to produce effects of passionate vehemence , vigorous precision , and ...
... qualities of Corneille may be more easily appreciated . He was above all things a rhetorician ; he was an instinctive master of those qualities in words which go to produce effects of passionate vehemence , vigorous precision , and ...
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... qualities to the utmost ; and all Corneille's master- pieces are concerned with the same subject- the combat between indomitable egoism and the forces of Fate . It is in the meeting of these " fell incensed opposites " that the tragedy ...
... qualities to the utmost ; and all Corneille's master- pieces are concerned with the same subject- the combat between indomitable egoism and the forces of Fate . It is in the meeting of these " fell incensed opposites " that the tragedy ...
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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!