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Title: Critical Miscellanies (Vol 2 of 3)
Essay 1: Vauvenargues
Author: John Morley
Release Date: October 25, 2005 [EBook #16937]
Language: English
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CRITICAL MISCELLANIES
BY
JOHN MORLEY
VOL. II.
Essay 1: Vauvenargues
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1905
CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PAGE
The influence of Pascal 1
Vauvenargues holds the balance between him and the
votaries of Perfectibility 4
Birth, education, and hard life of Vauvenargues 4
Life in Paris, and friendship with Voltaire 10
His religious sentiment 12
His delicacy, reserve, and psychagogic quality 15
Certain inability to appreciate marked originality 17
Criticisms on Moliere, Racine, and Corneille 19
Comparison with English aphoristic writers and moralists 20
Character the key to his theory of greatness 25
His exaltation of spontaneous feeling, a protest against
Rochefoucauld and Pascal 26
His plea for a normal sense of human relation, the same 28
His doctrine of the Will connected with his doctrine of
Character 29
Antipathy to ascetic restrictions 33
Two ways of examining character: that followed by
Vauvenargues 34
Examples of his style 36
The beauty of his nature to be read in his face 40
[Transcriber's Note: Footnotes have been moved to end of book.]
VAUVENARGU
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