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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... remarkable , though less known ; a curious example will show us what use they make of it . " + " Explain to me , then , how , by means of this regula- tion of the intent , it is lawful to fight a duel . ' The great Hurtado de Mendoza ...
... remarkable , though less known ; a curious example will show us what use they make of it . " + " Explain to me , then , how , by means of this regula- tion of the intent , it is lawful to fight a duel . ' The great Hurtado de Mendoza ...
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... remarkable article entitled , The Papacy and the Roman question examined from the St. Petersburg point of view . He remarks : " The institution of the Jesuits will always be a problem for the West . It is still there , one of those ...
... remarkable article entitled , The Papacy and the Roman question examined from the St. Petersburg point of view . He remarks : " The institution of the Jesuits will always be a problem for the West . It is still there , one of those ...
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... remarkable , they never admitted them as spectators . It is positively known that women were not admitted to the representation of Aristophanes's comedies . And it is not entirely certain that they were present when the tragedies of ...
... remarkable , they never admitted them as spectators . It is positively known that women were not admitted to the representation of Aristophanes's comedies . And it is not entirely certain that they were present when the tragedies of ...
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... remarkable adventures of the Crusades . Thus origi nated the little dramas called Mysteries . Some citizens of St. Maur , in 1398 , had had a representation of the passion of our Saviour ; Charles VI . being pleased with it , granted ...
... remarkable adventures of the Crusades . Thus origi nated the little dramas called Mysteries . Some citizens of St. Maur , in 1398 , had had a representation of the passion of our Saviour ; Charles VI . being pleased with it , granted ...
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... remarkable for its barren fruit- fulness , we find many authors , but no one piece worthy of our attention . Omitting , then , this period of pre- . tension and learned affectation , we come to the year 1625 , which saw the first piece ...
... remarkable for its barren fruit- fulness , we find many authors , but no one piece worthy of our attention . Omitting , then , this period of pre- . tension and learned affectation , we come to the year 1625 , which saw the first piece ...
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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.