(There are honorable echoes here of the young Fabrice del Dongo's adventures at Waterloo in Stendhal's The Charterhouse of Parma.). From Wordnik.com. [Wharton's Sharp Eye] Reference
Marie Henri Beyle, known better under his pseudonym, "Stendhal," died during this year. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three)] Reference
And we do experience a version of Stendhal syndrome. From Wordnik.com. [Art Attack] Reference
I enjoyed the lecture very much; it was on Stendhal. From Wordnik.com. [Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch] Reference
Stendhal provided him with a paradigmatic case study. From Wordnik.com. [Existentialist Aesthetics] Reference
Fabrice del Dongo was related to Stendhal by a Canon of Padua. From Wordnik.com. [The Sweet Cheat Gone] Reference
Misty says, “Has anybody ever died from Stendhal syndrome?”. From Wordnik.com. [Diary]
A brilliant man — Stendhal — has given the fantastic name of. From Wordnik.com. [Study of a Woman] Reference
The snobbery approached, as Stendhal would have said, the Sublime. From Wordnik.com. [The Solace of Intrigue] Reference
But I left it out because I've mentioned Stendhal a lot over the years. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Dirda Offers Fresh Look] Reference
Marie-Claude turned to him and asked, Which category would you put Stendhal in?. From Wordnik.com. [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]
Stendhal called it "apparently the most rapturous happiness obtainable on earth.". From Wordnik.com. [WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories]
An art critic standing next to him said he thought of Stendhal as daytime reading. From Wordnik.com. [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]
That was formidable support but it came too late, in fact just before Stendhal died. From Wordnik.com. [The Self-Inventing Man] Reference
Stendhal himself gave up his earlier form romanticisme in favor of the new romantisme. From Wordnik.com. [ROMANTICISM IN LITERATURE] Reference
As has been noted, this goes back to early nine - teenth-century writers like Stendhal. From Wordnik.com. [IDEA OF RENAISSANCE] Reference
Its two brightest apostles were French - men, Stendhal (Henri Beyle, 1783-1842) and Jules. From Wordnik.com. [IDEA OF RENAISSANCE] Reference
Insouciant enough, that is, to prefer Simenon to Stendhal, and intelligent enough to enjoy both. From Wordnik.com. [Furst Plunges His Meaty Dagger] Reference
We can thank Stendhal for introducing us to M. Leuwen, who hated nothing except humidity and bores. From Wordnik.com. [Bradley's Escape] Reference
Why have Donne and Stendhal in their writings a modern mind and Wordsworth an irremediably dated one?. From Wordnik.com. [Family Man] Reference
Stendhal, Tolstoy, Wordsworth, Beethoven, and Goya all spent themselves trying to set down some of it. From Wordnik.com. [O'Brian's Great Voyage] Reference
Donne is always our contemporary, even more so is Stendhal, who was in fact Wordsworth's contemporary. From Wordnik.com. [Family Man] Reference
Austen and Stendhal, both of whom but very rarely describe the physical appearance of a person or place. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
Weber sees parallels between the original Story of Babar and the fiction of writers like Stendhal and Balzac. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Family] Reference
Stendhal says quite firmly that "solitude and leisure" are "indispensable for the process of crystallization.". From Wordnik.com. [WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories]
Stendhal actually mentions the Machiavellism of his hero and uses quotations from Machiavelli for chapter headings. From Wordnik.com. [MACHIAVELLISM] Reference
Stendhal is one of those gambler writers who, making their throw at an unlucky time, scornfully stake on the future. From Wordnik.com. [The Self-Inventing Man] Reference
Émile Zola and Stendhal also explored the travails of ambitious young Frenchmen derailed by Parisian greed and vice. From Wordnik.com. [Hometown Boys:] Reference
Stendhal visited Florence in 1817: maybe he was suffering Grand Tour pressure to have a properly edifying travel experience. From Wordnik.com. [Art Attack] Reference
Writing in 1822, Stendhal was confident that within a hundred years physiologists would figure it all out and explain it to us. From Wordnik.com. [WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories]
The point would be to define, as Green did not, what is the use made of the word 'truth' in this context, and by Stendhal himself. From Wordnik.com. [Seer of the Ego] Reference
Stendhal once said that writing should not be a full-time job, and John Cheever's unhappy life seems to lend substance to his remark. From Wordnik.com. [John Cheever's Cruel Paradoxes] Reference
A Stendhal syndrome – like experience is the implicit promise in travel to foreign cities — otherwise, why not just go to the beach?. From Wordnik.com. [Art Attack] Reference
Stendhal, Michelet, Voigt, Burckhardt were products of a Renaissance world, even if by their day it was a world of shadows from the past. From Wordnik.com. [IDEA OF RENAISSANCE] Reference
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