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... writing an essay about him . Germaine de Staël was such a critic . In De la littérature ( 1800 ) she praised ... writers who need no advice , no encouragement . Such writers " dominent de trop haut leur temps et leur pays pour avoir ...
... writing an essay about him . Germaine de Staël was such a critic . In De la littérature ( 1800 ) she praised ... writers who need no advice , no encouragement . Such writers " dominent de trop haut leur temps et leur pays pour avoir ...
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... writing con- vincingly about love merely denotes a powerful imagination at work . Barbey does not talk about the divorce tracts , not even to compare or contrast them with attitudes toward love and marriage in Paradise Lost . Reading ...
... writing con- vincingly about love merely denotes a powerful imagination at work . Barbey does not talk about the divorce tracts , not even to compare or contrast them with attitudes toward love and marriage in Paradise Lost . Reading ...
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... writer would have extracted either a theological tract or a metaphysical elegy . Not so John Milton . With these elements he ... writing Pilgrim's Progress at the same time , he was above such considerations , and this his era understood ...
... writer would have extracted either a theological tract or a metaphysical elegy . Not so John Milton . With these elements he ... writing Pilgrim's Progress at the same time , he was above such considerations , and this his era understood ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Abel François Villemain | 27 |
François René de Chateaubriand | 48 |
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