Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 5J.M. Dent & Company, 1900 |
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... French refugees , and they had awakened in him a strong passion for French literature and French society . Frederic William regarded these tastes as effeminate and contemptible , YOUTH 9 and , by abuse and persecution , made 8 FREDERIC ...
... French refugees , and they had awakened in him a strong passion for French literature and French society . Frederic William regarded these tastes as effeminate and contemptible , YOUTH 9 and , by abuse and persecution , made 8 FREDERIC ...
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... French books were sent out of the palace : the Prince was kicked and cudgelled , and pulled by the hair . At dinner the plates were hurled at his head : sometimes he was restricted to bread and water : sometimes he was forced to swallow ...
... French books were sent out of the palace : the Prince was kicked and cudgelled , and pulled by the hair . At dinner the plates were hurled at his head : sometimes he was restricted to bread and water : sometimes he was forced to swallow ...
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... French . With these inmates he dined and supped well , drank freely , and amused himself sometimes with concerts , and sometimes with holding chapters of a fraternity which he called the Order of Bayard ; but literature was his chief ...
... French . With these inmates he dined and supped well , drank freely , and amused himself sometimes with concerts , and sometimes with holding chapters of a fraternity which he called the Order of Bayard ; but literature was his chief ...
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... French language predominant in Europe . Even in countries which had a national literature , and which could boast of ... French taste reigned without rival and without limit . Every youth of rank was taught to speak and write French ...
... French language predominant in Europe . Even in countries which had a national literature , and which could boast of ... French taste reigned without rival and without limit . Every youth of rank was taught to speak and write French ...
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... French writers , it is not strange that his admiration for those writers should have been unbounded . His ambitious and eager temper early prompted him to imitate what he admired . The wish , perhaps , dearest to his heart was , that he ...
... French writers , it is not strange that his admiration for those writers should have been unbounded . His ambitious and eager temper early prompted him to imitate what he admired . The wish , perhaps , dearest to his heart was , that he ...
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