Remy de Gourmont: Selections from All His Works, Volume 2P. Covici, 1928 - 671 pages |
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Page 332
... the nineteenth century , with Vic- tor Hugo and Michelet at their head , would have been considered as tasteless eccentrics , in a word , as barbarians . Viennet , Augier , Ponsard and M. Pessonneaux , the [ 332 ] REMY DE GOURMONT.
... the nineteenth century , with Vic- tor Hugo and Michelet at their head , would have been considered as tasteless eccentrics , in a word , as barbarians . Viennet , Augier , Ponsard and M. Pessonneaux , the [ 332 ] REMY DE GOURMONT.
Page 335
... words common to the two dialects , almost everything differs ; syntax , vocabulary , tone . And the fur- ther we depart from the distinguished classes , either to- wards the low classes , or towards the eccentric classes , these ...
... words common to the two dialects , almost everything differs ; syntax , vocabulary , tone . And the fur- ther we depart from the distinguished classes , either to- wards the low classes , or towards the eccentric classes , these ...
Page 339
... word ) ; it died because it could not renew either its ideas or its language , and its last sighs are the Dies Irae and the Stabat Mater , about a century after Adam de Saint - Victor . And a little later ecclesiasti- cal Latin prose ...
... word ) ; it died because it could not renew either its ideas or its language , and its last sighs are the Dies Irae and the Stabat Mater , about a century after Adam de Saint - Victor . And a little later ecclesiasti- cal Latin prose ...
Page 344
... word , for we must not allow the insinuation that sym- bolism is only a transformation of the old allegorization or art of personifying an idea in a human being , a land- scape or a narrative . Such an art is the whole of art ...
... word , for we must not allow the insinuation that sym- bolism is only a transformation of the old allegorization or art of personifying an idea in a human being , a land- scape or a narrative . Such an art is the whole of art ...
Page 348
... ! What folly to think that Who has a more admiring and more affectionate court than Stephan Mallarmé ? And is Villiers forgotten ? Is Verlaine neglected ? In the last few years the word mysticism has taken [ 348 ] REMY DE GOURMONT.
... ! What folly to think that Who has a more admiring and more affectionate court than Stephan Mallarmé ? And is Villiers forgotten ? Is Verlaine neglected ? In the last few years the word mysticism has taken [ 348 ] REMY DE GOURMONT.
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