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Page xv
... 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 into France of lyrical poetry . Of the progress which the French language made under ...
... 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 into France of lyrical poetry . Of the progress which the French language made under ...
Page xxx
... success that its projectors expected , its appearance had a great influence upon society at large , an in- fluence which may be considered to have lasted until , as has already been observed , experience fully proved the absurdity of ...
... success that its projectors expected , its appearance had a great influence upon society at large , an in- fluence which may be considered to have lasted until , as has already been observed , experience fully proved the absurdity of ...
Page xxxi
... successful when representing her in her wildest , or in her most cultivated state , when calling our atten- tion to the minute and exquisite beauties of the humming bird , or to the sublime terrors of the stupendous volcano . Great ...
... successful when representing her in her wildest , or in her most cultivated state , when calling our atten- tion to the minute and exquisite beauties of the humming bird , or to the sublime terrors of the stupendous volcano . Great ...
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... successful . While this highly - gifted woman was at the same time enriching the literature of her own country by her works , and enlarging the views of her countrymen by her counsels and exam- ple , another writer , wandering over ...
... successful . While this highly - gifted woman was at the same time enriching the literature of her own country by her works , and enlarging the views of her countrymen by her counsels and exam- ple , another writer , wandering over ...
Page xliv
... success of future writers , and that France may at some period produce a literature which shall combine the elements of the two schools ; the originality and power of the modern , as exem- plified in the bold but unequal compositions of ...
... success of future writers , and that France may at some period produce a literature which shall combine the elements of the two schools ; the originality and power of the modern , as exem- plified in the bold but unequal compositions of ...
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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.
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Page 225 - Montaigne. 5e édition. augmentée d'un troisième livre et de six cents additions aux deux premiers.
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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.
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