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John Drinkwater. XVI FRENCH LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV SI ASCAL , one of the few French writers of genius of the first half Po of the seventeenth century , was a very definite Puritan . He was born in 1623 , and was a ...
John Drinkwater. XVI FRENCH LITERATURE IN THE AGE OF LOUIS XIV SI ASCAL , one of the few French writers of genius of the first half Po of the seventeenth century , was a very definite Puritan . He was born in 1623 , and was a ...
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... French- men as the supreme French writer . This is due , apart from the sheer beauty of his verse , to the complete and unrivalled success with which he achieved the French ideal of compression of incident , unity of time , and the ...
... French- men as the supreme French writer . This is due , apart from the sheer beauty of his verse , to the complete and unrivalled success with which he achieved the French ideal of compression of incident , unity of time , and the ...
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... French literary critic of the nineteenth century after the era of Sainte - Beuve and Théophile Gautier was Hippolyte Taine , who was born in 1828 and died in 1893. He wrote a history of English literature ( 1864-1865 ) , a history of French ...
... French literary critic of the nineteenth century after the era of Sainte - Beuve and Théophile Gautier was Hippolyte Taine , who was born in 1828 and died in 1893. He wrote a history of English literature ( 1864-1865 ) , a history of French ...
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