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Page v
... given at the commencement of the volume , is little more than a repetition of what I have been able to collect when it has been my good fortune to overhear the opinion of my Betters , of the LA HARPES , and the CHENIERS , the BA- RANTES ...
... given at the commencement of the volume , is little more than a repetition of what I have been able to collect when it has been my good fortune to overhear the opinion of my Betters , of the LA HARPES , and the CHENIERS , the BA- RANTES ...
Page xv
... given to the French lan- guage the strength and the flexibility it wanted . Marot was only successful in the lighter kind of poetry ; Malherbe was the first French poet who attempted a nobler flight , and to him is due the introduction ...
... given to the French lan- guage the strength and the flexibility it wanted . Marot was only successful in the lighter kind of poetry ; Malherbe was the first French poet who attempted a nobler flight , and to him is due the introduction ...
Page xx
... given the French language a fixed and decided character ; for the 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 ...
... given the French language a fixed and decided character ; for the 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 ...
Page xxi
... given them a place in it , but finding that he could not , without increasing too much the size of the book , do justice to their extensive and valuable labours , he has reserved them for a futnre work , should this meet with such a ...
... given them a place in it , but finding that he could not , without increasing too much the size of the book , do justice to their extensive and valuable labours , he has reserved them for a futnre work , should this meet with such a ...
Page xxiii
... given than may be found in the eloquent sermons of Bourdaloue , the sublime pages of Bossuet , and the delightful volumes of the tender and irresistible Massillon . On speaking of the Literature of the eight eenth century OF FRENCH ...
... given than may be found in the eloquent sermons of Bourdaloue , the sublime pages of Bossuet , and the delightful volumes of the tender and irresistible Massillon . On speaking of the Literature of the eight eenth century OF FRENCH ...
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Page xxiv - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page xxv - Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear...
Page 473 - Musée français, Recueil complet des Tableaux, Statues, et Bas-reliefs, qui composent la collection nationale; avec l'explication des sujets, et des discours historiques sur la peinture, la sculpture, et la gravure, par EQ Visconti et JB Emeric-David, publié par llobillard, Peronville et Laurent.
Page 321 - Histoire comparée des systèmes de philosophie, considérés relativement aux principes des connaissances humaines, par M.
Page 225 - Montaigne. 5e édition. augmentée d'un troisième livre et de six cents additions aux deux premiers.
Page 308 - Essai sur l'Histoire de la Musique en Italie, depuis les temps les plus anciens, jusqu'à nos jours.
Page 103 - Discours sur l'Histoire universelle depuis le commencement du Monde jusqu'à l'Empire de Charlemagne ; pour l'éducation du Dauphin; par Bossuet.
Page 128 - Histoire des Confesseurs des Empereurs, des Rois et d'autres Princes. Paris, 1824, 1 vol.
Page 1 - On rirait d'un cordonnier qui voudrait mettre le même soulier à tous les pieds. Croiser l'unité de temps à l'unité de lieu comme les barreaux d'une cage, et y faire pédantesquement entrer, de par Aristote, tous ces faits, tous ces peuples, toutes ces figures que la Providence déroule à si grandes masses dans la réalité ! c'est mutiler hommes et choses, c'est faire grimacer l'histoire.
Page 404 - Voyage aux Alpes maritimes, ou Histoire naturelle, agraire, civile et médicale du comté de Nice et pays limitrophes, enrichi de notes, de comparaisons avec d'autres contrées, Strasbourg et Paris, 1821 , 2 vol.