The French Librarian: Or Literary Guide, Pointing Out the Best Works of the Principal Writers of France, in Every Branch of Literature; with Criticisms, Personal Anecdotes, and Bibliographical Notices; Preceded by a Sketch of the Progress of French Literature |
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... style , that quality which the French express by the untranslatable word naiveté ; both these qua- lities will be found happily blended in the fol- lowing Rondeau , which will serve at the same time to shew the state of the French ...
... style , that quality which the French express by the untranslatable word naiveté ; both these qua- lities will be found happily blended in the fol- lowing Rondeau , which will serve at the same time to shew the state of the French ...
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... style , suits but one particular class of readers ; Montaigne , who had in view a nobler end , takes in his Essays a wider range , and his style varies with his sub- jest , " From grave to gay , from lively to severe , ” finally , the ...
... style , suits but one particular class of readers ; Montaigne , who had in view a nobler end , takes in his Essays a wider range , and his style varies with his sub- jest , " From grave to gay , from lively to severe , ” finally , the ...
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... style in which he wrote his admirable " Lettres provinciales " was the model on which all the best writers of the age of Louis XIV formed . their own . But this was the least of his claims to the admiration of posterity ; at once ...
... style in which he wrote his admirable " Lettres provinciales " was the model on which all the best writers of the age of Louis XIV formed . their own . But this was the least of his claims to the admiration of posterity ; at once ...
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... style offers the double charm of thoughts well conceived and happily expressed , of a diction . at once pure and animated ; and hence it is that while his " Provinciales " delight the man of wit , his " Pensées , " at once profound in ...
... style offers the double charm of thoughts well conceived and happily expressed , of a diction . at once pure and animated ; and hence it is that while his " Provinciales " delight the man of wit , his " Pensées , " at once profound in ...
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... style ; Jean Baptiste Rousseau , one of the most distinguished poets of France ; La Roche- foucauld and La Bruyère , both of whom ( but particularly the latter ) " held up , as it were , the mirror to nature , " and finally , Bossuet ...
... style ; Jean Baptiste Rousseau , one of the most distinguished poets of France ; La Roche- foucauld and La Bruyère , both of whom ( but particularly the latter ) " held up , as it were , the mirror to nature , " and finally , Bossuet ...
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