Jean-Jacques Rousseau and the Cosmopolitan Spirit in Literature: A Study of the Literary Relations Between France and England During the Eighteenth Century |
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... became blended with his ; in them French readers , betweeen 1760 and 1789 , found the same aspirations , the same unrest , the same lyricism as they had found in Rousseau , - everything , in short , which they thirsted for but had ...
... became blended with his ; in them French readers , betweeen 1760 and 1789 , found the same aspirations , the same unrest , the same lyricism as they had found in Rousseau , - everything , in short , which they thirsted for but had ...
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... became , or began to be , " cosmopolitans " ; that is to say , they grew weary of the pro- tracted supremacy of the literatures of antiquity . The ancients , wrote the author of De la Littérature not long afterwards , " leave little ...
... became , or began to be , " cosmopolitans " ; that is to say , they grew weary of the pro- tracted supremacy of the literatures of antiquity . The ancients , wrote the author of De la Littérature not long afterwards , " leave little ...
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... became famous , on account of the reputa- tion of its author . Two translators disputed the honour of introducing it to the French public . D'Urfé appears to have read it ; Balzac praises the author ; Sorel criticises it ; while ...
... became famous , on account of the reputa- tion of its author . Two translators disputed the honour of introducing it to the French public . D'Urfé appears to have read it ; Balzac praises the author ; Sorel criticises it ; while ...
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... became broadened by contact with • a new literature so entirely different from the French . Though never more than a literary amateur , he was a man of an open and comprehensive mind ; with Fontenelle he perceived that " different ...
... became broadened by contact with • a new literature so entirely different from the French . Though never more than a literary amateur , he was a man of an open and comprehensive mind ; with Fontenelle he perceived that " different ...
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... became increasingly attracted to their adoptive countries , to which they were already drawn by re- ligious and political sympathy . England , the uttermost territory of the old continent , " that 1 Cf. J. Jusserand , le Roman anglais ...
... became increasingly attracted to their adoptive countries , to which they were already drawn by re- ligious and political sympathy . England , the uttermost territory of the old continent , " that 1 Cf. J. Jusserand , le Roman anglais ...
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Page 325 - When the world is dark with tempests, when thunder rolls and lightning flies, thou lookest in thy beauty from the clouds and laughest at the storm. But to Ossian thou lookest in vain ; for he beholds thy beams no more, whether thy yellow hair flows on the eastern clouds or thou tremblest at the gates of the west. But thou art, perhaps, like me, for a season ; thy years will have an end. Thou shalt sleep in thy clouds careless of the voice of the morning.
Page 192 - Why, Sir, if you were to read Richardson for the story, your impatience would be so much fretted that you would hang yourself. But you must read him for the sentiment, and consider the story as only giving occasion to the sentiment.
Page 293 - Is deep enrich'd with vegetable life ; Till, in the western sky, the downward sun Looks out, effulgent, from amid the flush Of broken clouds, gay-shifting to his beam. The rapid radiance instantaneous strikes Th...
Page 134 - What are your laws, of which you make your boast, but the fool's wisdom and the coward's valour? the instrument and screen of all your villainies, by which you punish in others what you act yourselves, or would have acted had you been in their circumstances. The judge who condemns the poor man for being a thief had been a thief himself had he been poor.
Page 296 - Be not too narrow, husbandmen ! but fling From the full sheaf, with charitable stealth, The liberal handful. Think, oh grateful think ! How good the GOD of HARVEST is to you: Who pours abundance o'er your flowing fields...
Page 114 - Subject, compound them, follow her and God. Love, hope, and joy, fair pleasure's smiling train, Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain...
Page 315 - No slaves revere them, and no wars invade : Yet frequent now, at midnight's solemn hour, The rifted mounds their yawning cells unfold, And forth the monarchs stalk with sovereign power, In pageant robes, and wreathed with sheeny gold, And on their twilight tombs aerial council hold.
Page 292 - I do not remember to have gone ten paces without an exclamation that there was no restraining; not a precipice, not a torrent, not a cliff, but is pregnant with religion and poetry.
Page 298 - THESE, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God. The rolling year Is full of Thee. Forth in the pleasing Spring Thy beauty walks, Thy tenderness and love. Wide flush the fields ; the softening air is balm ; Echo the mountains round ; the forest smiles ; And every sense, and every heart is joy.
Page 323 - He lifted high his shadowy spear! He bent forward his dreadful height. Fingal, advancing, drew his sword; the blade of dark-brown Luno.* The gleaming path of the steel winds through the gloomy ghost. The form fell shapeless into air, like a column of smoke, which the staff of the boy disturbs, as it rises from the half-extinguished furnace.