Best poems of Shelley in Athenæum Press; briefer selections in Belles Lettres, Golden Treasury, English Classics.
Not all at once, indeed, did he become the mouthpiece of critical reason for his age: his literary ambitions were primarily on the lines of belles lettres, and secondarily on those of historical writing.
During his reign his influence on literature fostered a measure of the spirit of freethought in belles lettres; and in the poets J.
The general tendency is revealed on the one hand by the series of treatises from eminent Churchmen, defending the faith against unpublished attacks, and on the other hand by the prevailing tone in belles lettres.
This gave them the name, Beni Humori, which, after they resolved to form an academy of belles lettres, they changed to Humoristi.
Among his contributors of belles lettres we find the names of the authors just mentioned, and also several others.
In the division of belles lettres we find all the best authors of the time.
Until the thirteenth century, dialectic and theology were not completely severed from belles lettres.
So through its great period, which roughly coincides with the thirteenth century, the University of Paris was for all Europe the supreme seat of Dialectic, Metaphysics, and Theology, and yet no kindly nurse of belles lettres.
We have been looking at the matter rather in regard to poetry and eloquence--belles lettres.
In all the departments of Belles Lettres a servile imitation of the models of the great classical period is observable.
There was hardly a department ofbelles lettres which he did not attempt.
During the last fifteen years the Press has been teeming with books designed to circulate among readers who are seriously interested in belles lettres and criticism.
But as a critic of Belles Lettres he was excellent.
He was an eminent writer as well onbelles lettres as political economy.
He was professor of belles lettres at Paris, and author of a history of the lower empire, in 22 vols.
Nor inbelles lettres proper were such serious performances as continued to be written well into our period of capital importance.
She Stoops to Conquer, in Pocket Classics, Belles Lettres Series, etc.
Boindin’s, inserted in the Memoirs of the Academy of Belles Lettres.
There are in the Memoirs of the Academy of Belles Lettres(998) two learned dissertations upon the Assyrian empire, and particularly on the reign and actions of Semiramis.
Burette has treated this subject in several dissertations, printed in the Memoirs of the Academy of Belles Lettres; wherein purity, perspicuity, and elegance of style are united with profound erudition.
My friend, the Pole of whom I spoke in the preceding chapter, who occupied himself mainly with belles lettres, was greatly delighted at my conversion.
We conversed usually on subjects in philosophy and belles lettres.
The very men who contributed works of a scientific character could not resist the appeal of belles lettres, and wrote books which not infrequently demonstrated their double right to homage.
Prior to this time the clergy had provided almost the only representatives to win fame in belles lettres; now, they were joined and rivalled, even outdone, by laymen, both soldiers and civilians.
The most marked achievements in the field of belles lettres were in the drama.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "belles lettres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
