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... Brunetière was . Listen to Rénan . " One cannot refuse to the seventeenth century the specific quality which makes a literature classical . I mean thereby a certain combination of perfection of form with measure ( I was going to say ...
... Brunetière was . Listen to Rénan . " One cannot refuse to the seventeenth century the specific quality which makes a literature classical . I mean thereby a certain combination of perfection of form with measure ( I was going to say ...
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... Brunetière when , in another place , he affirms that a classical period can come but once in a nation's literature , at the moment when its language attains perfection and before the inevitable process of decay has set in . Brunetière ...
... Brunetière when , in another place , he affirms that a classical period can come but once in a nation's literature , at the moment when its language attains perfection and before the inevitable process of decay has set in . Brunetière ...
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... Brunetière , in the same spirit , declares that substance is nothing , " c'est la forme qui est tout " . And they mean much the same thing . A classical age , again , is an age of reason - good sense -not of rationalism which is reason ...
... Brunetière , in the same spirit , declares that substance is nothing , " c'est la forme qui est tout " . And they mean much the same thing . A classical age , again , is an age of reason - good sense -not of rationalism which is reason ...
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