The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... according to the ancient rhapsodes and mythologists there is no fable , especially of those concerning the deities , which was not founded upon some real event the poem will not cease for that reason to follow the laws of art and will ...
... according to the ancient rhapsodes and mythologists there is no fable , especially of those concerning the deities , which was not founded upon some real event the poem will not cease for that reason to follow the laws of art and will ...
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... according to the other ways is suited to the conception of his new poem . If you should now ask me which of these two manners seems to me the nobler , that which arises from the nature of the subject or that which arises from the ...
... according to the other ways is suited to the conception of his new poem . If you should now ask me which of these two manners seems to me the nobler , that which arises from the nature of the subject or that which arises from the ...
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... according to Aristotle , sometimes more agreeable than truth itself , insomuch that two roads directly contrary , that is , ignorance and erudition , politeness and barbarity , often conduct men to one and the same end , the study of ...
... according to Aristotle , sometimes more agreeable than truth itself , insomuch that two roads directly contrary , that is , ignorance and erudition , politeness and barbarity , often conduct men to one and the same end , the study of ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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