The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... Monsieur Ménage keep whatever opinion of it he likes than to force him to listen to a defense of it . I shall merely defend myself , for I should not want him to leave here convinced that I have lost all taste for good literature ...
... Monsieur Ménage keep whatever opinion of it he likes than to force him to listen to a defense of it . I shall merely defend myself , for I should not want him to leave here convinced that I have lost all taste for good literature ...
Page 40
... Monsieur Duchesne , 20 had I foreseen that you would involve me in this argument . Since they are not here I shall refer you to what Monsieur de la Colom- bière has just published in his Théâtre de Chevalerie , and which might in itself ...
... Monsieur Duchesne , 20 had I foreseen that you would involve me in this argument . Since they are not here I shall refer you to what Monsieur de la Colom- bière has just published in his Théâtre de Chevalerie , and which might in itself ...
Page 42
... Monsieur Sarasin , " said I to Monsieur Ménage , " had added the customs they invariably followed , he would have left me nothing to say on this subject ; for excepting that , you and he have mentioned everything ; yet this is enough ...
... Monsieur Sarasin , " said I to Monsieur Ménage , " had added the customs they invariably followed , he would have left me nothing to say on this subject ; for excepting that , you and he have mentioned everything ; yet this is enough ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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