Word: demusset
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...world of modern thought, it is necessary to study the philosophical attitude of his contemporaries. The nineteenth century is characterized by pessimism, and it is chiefly through the abandonment of faith in the revelation of the bible, that such men as Voltaire, Byron, Tennyson, Swinburne, Goethe and DeMusset, were lead into this line of thought. Poets are quoted as examples, for more than all other men they give expression to the thought of their times...
Tuesday, Nov. 3: Reading in French, Alfred DeMusset, On ne badine pas avec l'amour, Prof. Bocher...
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