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... Probably the best passages are the Homeric simile of the gathering birds in Book I , and this meditation of Francus over his dead companions in Book III— Heureux trois fois les hommes , que la terre En son giron , mère commune , enserre ...
... Probably the best passages are the Homeric simile of the gathering birds in Book I , and this meditation of Francus over his dead companions in Book III— Heureux trois fois les hommes , que la terre En son giron , mère commune , enserre ...
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... probably not have ventured on some of his statements had he known as much as is now known . He misses , or only casually in the phrase " it was an age of translations " hints at what is perhaps the most significant thing in Du Bellay's ...
... probably not have ventured on some of his statements had he known as much as is now known . He misses , or only casually in the phrase " it was an age of translations " hints at what is perhaps the most significant thing in Du Bellay's ...
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... Probably no modern can ever fully understand the Renaissance man ; certainly we cannot begin to comprehend him until we realize how important for him were beauty , magnificence , youth , splendour . To such men ugliness was an affront ...
... Probably no modern can ever fully understand the Renaissance man ; certainly we cannot begin to comprehend him until we realize how important for him were beauty , magnificence , youth , splendour . To such men ugliness was an affront ...
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... probably from Italian predecessors , while the latter is inherent in Gallic wit . The English pretend moral indignation and do compass a certain bitterness . Their clumsy vociferations sometimes reach a " rare invective vein , " but ...
... probably from Italian predecessors , while the latter is inherent in Gallic wit . The English pretend moral indignation and do compass a certain bitterness . Their clumsy vociferations sometimes reach a " rare invective vein , " but ...
Page 78
... probably without attaching any individual to the print ; and that is when they read Molière's famous sonnet- Aux larmes , le Vayer , laisse tes yeux ouverts , Ton deuil est raisonnable , encor qu'il soit extrême ; etc. In the pious ...
... probably without attaching any individual to the print ; and that is when they read Molière's famous sonnet- Aux larmes , le Vayer , laisse tes yeux ouverts , Ton deuil est raisonnable , encor qu'il soit extrême ; etc. In the pious ...
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Page 217 - No man could be born a metaphysical poet, nor assume the dignity of a writer by descriptions copied from descriptions, by imitations borrowed from imitations, by traditional imagery and hereditary similes, by readiness of rhyme and volubility of syllables.
Page 111 - I NEVER had any other desire so strong, and so like to covetousness, as that one which I have had always, that I might be master at last of a small house and large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life only to the culture of them, and study of nature...
Page 216 - They reply that with all this they can do nothing ; that the elements they need for the exercise of their art are great actions, calculated powerfully and delightfully to affect what is permanent in the human soul ; that so far as the present age can supply such actions, they will gladly make use of them ; but that an age wanting in moral grandeur can with difficulty supply such, and an age of spiritual discomfort with difficulty be powerfully and delightfully affected by them.
Page 189 - D'ESCURES. Ep. Oh of what contraries consists a man ! Of what impossible mixtures ! vice and virtue, . , Corruption, and eternnesse, at one time, And in one subject, let together, loose ! We have not any strength but weakens us, No greatness but doth crush us into air. Our knowledges do light us but to err, Our ornaments are burthens : our delights Are our tormentors ; fiends that, raised in fears, At parting shake our roofs about our ears.
Page 144 - Far, far from here, The Adriatic breaks in a warm bay Among the green Illyrian hills ; and there The sunshine in the happy glens is fair, And by the sea, and in the brakes. The grass is cool, the sea-side air Buoyant and fresh, the mountain flowers More virginal and sweet than ours.
Page 189 - Gives too soon Into weak hands, what's thought can be dispensed with Till the refusal propagates a fear.
Page 216 - They do not talk of their mission, nor of interpreting their age, nor of the coming Poet ; all this, they know, is the mere delirium of vanity ; their business is not to praise their age, but to afford to the men who live in it the highest pleasure which they are capable of feeling.
Page 153 - I have no flock : I kill Nothing that breathes, that stirs, that feels the air, The sun, the dew. Why should the beautiful (And thou art beautiful) disturb the source Whence springs all beauty? Hast thou never heard Of Hamadryads ? Rhaicos, Heard of them I have : Tell me some tale about them.
Page 43 - Par le monde volez, Et d'un sifflant murmure L'ombrageuse verdure Doulcement esbranlez, J'offre ces violettes, Ces lis, et ces fleurettes, Et ces roses icy, Ces vermeillettes roses, Tout freschement écloses, Et ces œilletz aussi.