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Louis, had a common grievance with Edward and his mother against Charles of Anjou. She hated him the more inasmuch as he was depriving her of all influence over her son, King Philip. It was easy in such circumstances for the two widowed queens of France and England to form grandiose schemes for ousting Charles from Provence. Rudolf lent himself to their plans by investing Margaret with the county.
In general the design of Maisons is gracious, not at all outré, though undeniably grandiose; too much so for a structure covering so small an area. The Cour d'Honneur gives it its chief exterior distinction and the two pavilions have a certain grace of charm, when considered separately, which the ensemble somewhat lacks.
Greek drama sought its subjects naturally in the remote and grandiose; always in the myths of prehistory, save once when Aeschylus found a kindred atmosphere, and the material he wanted, in the palace of the Great King.
Unobserved, they received, and made their own preparations for utilising, the legacy of the mid-Victorian novel moral thesis, plot, underplot, set characters, descriptive machinery, landscape colouring, copious phraseology, Herculean proportions, and the rest of the cumbrous and grandiose paraphernalia of Chuzzlewit, Pendennis, and Middlemarch.
The motive a comparison between a man of moral grandeur and one of grandiose immorality came to Richter while he was engaged on "Hesperus," a fact that explains why certain characters from the earlier romance reappear in "Titan." I. Liana
Of this Pierre had a grandiose and tragical vision: he beheld his dream destroyed, his book swept away amidst that cry which spread around him as if flying to the four corners of the Catholic world "Evviva il Papa-Re! evviva il Papa-Re! Long live the Pope-King!"
Possibly also by the disproportion that existed between the humble little straggling village which you expected to find and the grandiose establishment, this country mansion in the style of Louis XIII, an agglomeration of mortar looking pink through the branches of its leafless park, ornamented with wide pieces of water thick with green weeds.
Every year we have reports of some grandiose performance in which the people take part themselves. They come from every direction to help, even from a considerable distance, thanks to the many means of communication in that delightful land.
These and other grandiose designs were confided only to Talleyrand and other intimate counsellors. But, even to the mass of mankind, the transformation scene ushered in by the nineteenth century was one of bewildering brilliance.
It will be sufficient here to point out his beautiful early Noli me Tangere , The Portrait of his Wife , the Portrait of Himself , the Portrait of a Lady, with a Petrarch in her hands , and the Madonna dell' Arpie , that statuesque and too grandiose failure that is so near to success.
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