Modern French LiteratureGould, Kendall and Lincoln, 1848 - 448 pagini |
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Pagina 16
... remarkable degree of elegance , perspicuity , and strength . It then began , with the age , to receive new forms , to undergo strange metamorphoses ; in short , it was plunged into that revolution , which , signally chequered in its ...
... remarkable degree of elegance , perspicuity , and strength . It then began , with the age , to receive new forms , to undergo strange metamorphoses ; in short , it was plunged into that revolution , which , signally chequered in its ...
Pagina 19
... remarkable instance of the difficulty with which foreign nations can fully appreciate a writer who is rather given to eclat . Rousseau's style , for instance , as a mere writer , has never been completely understood in England , where ...
... remarkable instance of the difficulty with which foreign nations can fully appreciate a writer who is rather given to eclat . Rousseau's style , for instance , as a mere writer , has never been completely understood in England , where ...
Pagina 36
... remarkable powers of oratory and style . Dumas , in his lectures , keeps his audience rivetted in eager and breathless attention by the force and perspicuity of his language ; and at intervals he quite enraptures the mind ; as , for ...
... remarkable powers of oratory and style . Dumas , in his lectures , keeps his audience rivetted in eager and breathless attention by the force and perspicuity of his language ; and at intervals he quite enraptures the mind ; as , for ...
Pagina 52
... remarkable are Gibbon's Decline and Fall , and the works of Mr. Millar . In the second class of French historians , history is written merely ad narrandum , and consists in a simple narrative of events and a picture of manners ...
... remarkable are Gibbon's Decline and Fall , and the works of Mr. Millar . In the second class of French historians , history is written merely ad narrandum , and consists in a simple narrative of events and a picture of manners ...
Pagina 55
... remarkable work there is doubtless much to shock and to offend -passages wherein the author's intention to raise violent emo- tions provokes simply disgust . But , allowing for this drawback , the singular raciness and vigor of its ...
... remarkable work there is doubtless much to shock and to offend -passages wherein the author's intention to raise violent emo- tions provokes simply disgust . But , allowing for this drawback , the singular raciness and vigor of its ...
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Pagina 397 - This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Pagina 397 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth: my high-blown pride At length broke under me; and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Pagina 156 - The nations of our time cannot prevent the conditions of men from becoming equal; but it depends upon themselves whether the principle of equality is to lead them to servitude or freedom, to knowledge or barbarism, to prosperity or to wretchedness.