The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... Homer used so eccentrically , whatever the allegorical significance given them by his hollow commentators . " " But , " said Monsieur Sarasin , " if you consider magic to be as plausible in poetic machinery as Homer's divinities , why ...
... Homer used so eccentrically , whatever the allegorical significance given them by his hollow commentators . " " But , " said Monsieur Sarasin , " if you consider magic to be as plausible in poetic machinery as Homer's divinities , why ...
Page 358
... Homer , Plato , Demosthenes cannot be equaled in these latter centuries ; but if our trees are as tall as those of former times , then we can equal Homer , Plato , and Demosthenes . Let us explain this paradox . If the ancients were ...
... Homer , Plato , Demosthenes cannot be equaled in these latter centuries ; but if our trees are as tall as those of former times , then we can equal Homer , Plato , and Demosthenes . Let us explain this paradox . If the ancients were ...
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... Homer's time it was a great wonder that a man was able to subject his speech to rhythm , to long and short syllables , and at the same time to make of it something reasonable . Poets were given endless license , and the public was only ...
... Homer's time it was a great wonder that a man was able to subject his speech to rhythm , to long and short syllables , and at the same time to make of it something reasonable . Poets were given endless license , and the public was only ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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