"Politesse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that Voltaire, speaking of the Berenice of Racine, praises a passage in it for precisely what Dryden condemns: "Il semble qu'on entende Henriette d'Angleterre elle-meme parlant au marquis de Vardes. La politesse de la cour de Louis XIV., l'agrement de la langue Francaise, la douceur de la versification la plus naturelle, le sentiment le plus tendre, tout se trouve dans ce peu de vers." After Dryden had broken away from the ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell
... 1885 LA POLITESSE. Another address. This one was given at Clermont- Ferrand, and was published on August 5, 1885, in the local paper Moniteur du Puy de Dome. It is of interest because in it is to be found his original view of "Grace" which he developed ...
— Bergson and His Philosophy • J. Alexander Gunn |
