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... truth . But she was not to be ousted without a struggle . In the dramas of Corneille she plays a not inconspicuous part , and in the novels of La Calprenède and Mlle de Scudéry , reflecting as they do the military ardour and chivalric ...
... truth . But she was not to be ousted without a struggle . In the dramas of Corneille she plays a not inconspicuous part , and in the novels of La Calprenède and Mlle de Scudéry , reflecting as they do the military ardour and chivalric ...
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... Truth and Reason , only touch incidentally on literature . Corneille's Discours may be as long as the Préface de Cromwell , but it is easier to extract from them the telling passages . Molière in the Critique de l'École des Femmes and ...
... Truth and Reason , only touch incidentally on literature . Corneille's Discours may be as long as the Préface de Cromwell , but it is easier to extract from them the telling passages . Molière in the Critique de l'École des Femmes and ...
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... truth from falsehood - in other words , common - sense . Now while common - sense is an essential element in the commerce of minds , it is hardly enough for the sole conduct of human life , and certainly less than enough for the making ...
... truth from falsehood - in other words , common - sense . Now while common - sense is an essential element in the commerce of minds , it is hardly enough for the sole conduct of human life , and certainly less than enough for the making ...
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... Truth from whatever source . He became a soldier and served in the Thirty Years ' War . It was in winter quarters at Neuburg in 1619 that he had his first vision of the method by which he meant and managed to reorganise his mind . In ...
... Truth from whatever source . He became a soldier and served in the Thirty Years ' War . It was in winter quarters at Neuburg in 1619 that he had his first vision of the method by which he meant and managed to reorganise his mind . In ...
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... truth , and from the heights of empyrean poetry , may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature . There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the clock , or why an hour should not be a century in that ...
... truth , and from the heights of empyrean poetry , may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature . There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in ecstasy should count the clock , or why an hour should not be a century in that ...
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Page 52 - The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses and know from the first act to the last that the stage is only a stage and that the players are only players.
Page 71 - Qu'on parle mal ou bien du fameux Cardinal, Ma prose ni mes vers n'en diront jamais rien : II m'a fait trop de bien pour en dire du mal, II m'a fait trop de mal pour en dire du bien.
Page 52 - Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation. If the spectator can be once persuaded that his old acquaintance are Alexander and Caesar, that a room illuminated with candles is the plain of Pharsalia, or the bank of Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.
Page 115 - Car enfin, je trouve qu'il est bien plus aisé de se guinder sur de grands sentiments, de braver en vers la fortune, accuser les destins et dire des injures aux dieux , que d'entrer comme il faut dans le ridicule des hommes et de rendre agréablement sur le théâtre les défauts de tout le monde.
Page 135 - Quelques imitateurs, sot bétail, je l'avoue, Suivent en vrais moutons le pasteur de Mantoue. J'en use d'autre sorte; et, me laissant guider, Souvent à marcher seul j'ose me hasarder. On me verra toujours pratiquer cet usage. Mon imitation n'est point un esclavage : Je ne prends que l'idée, et les tours, et les lois Que nos maîtres suivaient eux-mêmes autrefois. Si d'ailleurs quelque endroit plein chez eux d'excellence...
Page 115 - Mais lorsque vous peignez les hommes, il faut peindre d'après nature ; on veut que ces portraits ressemblent, et vous n'avez rien fait si vous n'y faites reconnaître les gens de votre siècle.
Page 48 - Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time.
Page 15 - Prendre garde qu'un qui ne heurte une diphtongue ; Épier si des vers la rime est brève ou longue ; Ou bien si la voyelle, à l'autre s'unissant, Ne rend point à l'oreille un vers trop languissant.
Page 86 - ... se faire aimer des hommes ; ainsi la vie humaine n'est qu'une illusion perpétuelle. On ne fait que s'entretromper et s'entreflatter. Personne ne parle de nous en notre présence comme il en parle en notre absence; l'union qui est entre les hommes n'est fondée que sur cette mutuelle tromperie...
Page 52 - It is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality; that any dramatick fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited.