Louis Fourteenth, and the Writers of His Age: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered (in French) to a Select Audience in New York |
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... LETTERS 39 CORNEILLE LECTURE III . 83 LECTURE IV . FENELON 151 LECTURE V. LA FONTAINE BOILEAU LECTURE VI . LECTURE VII . RACINE · ( v ) 900221 · 189 235 289 825 387 INTRODUCTION . OUR native artists have produced several.
... LETTERS 39 CORNEILLE LECTURE III . 83 LECTURE IV . FENELON 151 LECTURE V. LA FONTAINE BOILEAU LECTURE VI . LECTURE VII . RACINE · ( v ) 900221 · 189 235 289 825 387 INTRODUCTION . OUR native artists have produced several.
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... Fenelon , Arnaud , and Pascal , were then in the schools and pul- pits of the nation ; and all , Catholics . Will she ever see such a constellation again in her heavens ? To an intelligent observer of that age , looking on France as she ...
... Fenelon , Arnaud , and Pascal , were then in the schools and pul- pits of the nation ; and all , Catholics . Will she ever see such a constellation again in her heavens ? To an intelligent observer of that age , looking on France as she ...
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... Fenelon , the seeds of liberty , growing silently and obscurely under a soil frozen to a rocky hardness by the winter of absolutism . While Louis is flourishing , absolute monarchy is , in fact , decaying . And when he dies , it dies ...
... Fenelon , the seeds of liberty , growing silently and obscurely under a soil frozen to a rocky hardness by the winter of absolutism . While Louis is flourishing , absolute monarchy is , in fact , decaying . And when he dies , it dies ...
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... Fenelon was completely won over . And had Madame de Main- tenon possessed more courage and independence , she would probably have decided in favor of the opinions of her friend . Such were the various attempts at renovation in the very ...
... Fenelon was completely won over . And had Madame de Main- tenon possessed more courage and independence , she would probably have decided in favor of the opinions of her friend . Such were the various attempts at renovation in the very ...
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... Fenelon , the humble , charitable , and amiable bishop , who had nothing of the partisan about him ; he writes to Madame de Maintenon , that Louis XIV . had " no idea of his duties as . a king . " Racine seems to have been no less ...
... Fenelon , the humble , charitable , and amiable bishop , who had nothing of the partisan about him ; he writes to Madame de Maintenon , that Louis XIV . had " no idea of his duties as . a king . " Racine seems to have been no less ...
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Page 236 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres, till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head; The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright, That birds would sing, and think it were not night.
Page 236 - But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks! It is the east, and Juliet is the sun ! — Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou her maid art far more fair than she...
Page 236 - I will answer it. 1 am too bold; 'tis not to me she speaks. Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return.
Page 346 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
Page 236 - But by pursuing closely one argument, which is not cloyed with many turns, the French have gained more liberty for verse, in which they write ; they have leisure to dwell on a subject which deserves it ; and to represent the passions (which we have acknowledged to be the poet's work), without being hurried from one thing to another...
Page 236 - But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him; no man can say he ever had a fit subject for his wit, and did not then raise himself as high above the rest of poets *Quantum lenta solent inter viburna cupressi.
Page 236 - Romantic poetry, on the other hand, is the expression of the secret attraction to a chaos which lies concealed in the very bosom of the ordered...
Page 236 - ... its fragmentary appearance, approaches more to the secret of the universe. For Conception can only comprise each object separately, but nothing in truth can ever exist separately and by itself; Feeling perceives all in all at one and the same time.
Page 148 - Yes, if the life and death of Socrates are those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus are those of a God.