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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... taste and the need for the literatures of the North . In the first place I have endeavoured to show that Rousseau profited greatly by the influence which had been exercised in France , ever since the commencement of the eighteenth ...
... taste and the need for the literatures of the North . In the first place I have endeavoured to show that Rousseau profited greatly by the influence which had been exercised in France , ever since the commencement of the eighteenth ...
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... taste . " There are perhaps few countries , " he wrote , " where poetry is more deserving of public attention than it is in England , and if the English language were more common , foreigners would be surprised to find that it contains ...
... taste . " There are perhaps few countries , " he wrote , " where poetry is more deserving of public attention than it is in England , and if the English language were more common , foreigners would be surprised to find that it contains ...
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... taste remained thoroughly French . " Though I often visit other countries , " he wrote , " in order to become acquainted with their opinions , I do not surrender the opinions I hold as a Frenchman . Like Seneca I can say : Soleo saepe ...
... taste remained thoroughly French . " Though I often visit other countries , " he wrote , " in order to become acquainted with their opinions , I do not surrender the opinions I hold as a Frenchman . Like Seneca I can say : Soleo saepe ...
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... tastes . He speaks cleverly of Boileau , and considers that the French know scarcely anything of great poetry . He professes to despise genius of an inferior order , " and believes that to clothe common thoughts in beautiful language is ...
... tastes . He speaks cleverly of Boileau , and considers that the French know scarcely anything of great poetry . He professes to despise genius of an inferior order , " and believes that to clothe common thoughts in beautiful language is ...
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... taste and style in France delight to extol this book as a model of beauty , vigour and simplicity . " Jean - Jacques , in his turn , praised that " wise man , " the sober Muralt , " and borrowed from him , as we shall see , on more than ...
... taste and style in France delight to extol this book as a model of beauty , vigour and simplicity . " Jean - Jacques , in his turn , praised that " wise man , " the sober Muralt , " and borrowed from him , as we shall see , on more than ...
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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 shall 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 308 - And fated to survive the transient Sun ! By mortals and immortals seen with awe ! A starry crown thy raven brow adorns, An azure zone thy waist ; clouds, in heaven's loom Wrought through varieties of shape and shade, In ample folds of drapery divine, Thy flowing mantle form, and, heaven throughout, Voluminously pour thy pompous train...
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 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.
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 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.