Brunetière
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Even so learned a critic as the late M. Brunetière thought that things of the kind were not older than Balzac.
From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George
That literature and language, we have been told by no less an authority than M. Brunetière, are pre-eminently social in their strength and their weakness.
From Shelburne Essays, Third Series by More, Paul Elmer
But M. Brunetière would surely not deny that Walter Scott's work is objective and dramatic quite as often as it is lyrical.
From A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century by Beers, Henry A. (Henry Augustin)
De Brunetière said that, after fifty years of discussion, it was impossible to define romanticism.
From Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 by Baring, Evelyn
Even M. Brunetière lets slip an admission that "interest" of the ordinary kind is not exactly Balzac's forte; while another admirer of his grants freely that his affabulation is weak.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George
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