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These subordinate members of the 'Pleiade' were no less devoted to sonnetteering than the original members.
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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It is a significant fact that Sainte-Beuve opened the campaign of romanticism in "Le Globe" with a "Tableau de la poesie francaise au seizieme siecle," the century of the "Pleiade," and of Rabelais and Montaigne.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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Writer and translator Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt slams the Parisian "Pleiade" publishers for including
signandsight.com 2008
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Writer and translator Georges-Arthur Goldschmidt slams the Parisian "Pleiade" publishers for including
signandsight.com 2008
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Nonetheless, all of those authors remained in print in France; all in, among other editions, the Bibliotheque de la Pleiade collection.
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Pour ma part je me fais toujours un cadeau de noel a moi meme, meme si je n'ai pas une seule tune et je me suis commandé "les oeuvres completes de Lewis Carroll" optant pour la version de Francis Lacassin car plus complete et moins cher malgre le culte que je voue aux editions de la Pleiade mais celles-la je me les fait offrir car vraiment trop onereuses!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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Pleiade, leaving her fellows, declined towards the equinoctial, and the star named Spica left the constellation of the Virgin to withdraw herself towards the Balance, known by the name of Libra, which are cases very terrible, and matters so hard and difficult that astrologians cannot set their teeth in them; and indeed their teeth had been pretty long if they could have reached thither.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Pleiade, leaving her fellows, declined towards the equinoctial, and the star named Spica left the constellation of the Virgin to withdraw herself towards the Balance, known by the name of Libra, which are cases very terrible, and matters so hard and difficult that astrologians cannot set their teeth in them; and indeed their teeth had been pretty long if they could have reached thither.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Though he was the sharp voice of the Pleiade, though it was he who published their famous manifesto, though his scholarship was harder, though his energy could run more fiercely to one point and shine there more brilliantly in one small climax; yet he was second.
Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance Hilaire Belloc 1911
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They were called by their contemporaries the Pleiade, for they were seven stars.
Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance Hilaire Belloc 1911
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