The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 83
... appear in different parts of the world on the same stage , it will not be amiss to give here at length the reason of ... appears does represent that where Horatius was , or else the representation would be imperfect in that cir ...
... appear in different parts of the world on the same stage , it will not be amiss to give here at length the reason of ... appears does represent that where Horatius was , or else the representation would be imperfect in that cir ...
Page 84
... appear in any other place . But we must remember that this place which cannot be supposed to change is the area or floor of the stage , upon which the actors walk , and which the ancients called by the name of proscenium ; for as that ...
... appear in any other place . But we must remember that this place which cannot be supposed to change is the area or floor of the stage , upon which the actors walk , and which the ancients called by the name of proscenium ; for as that ...
Page 117
... appears himself he has not force enough to sustain it , unless out of modesty he has a mind to appear an ordinary man amongst the Indians in a just repentance for having been ambitious to pass for a god amongst the Persians . To speak ...
... appears himself he has not force enough to sustain it , unless out of modesty he has a mind to appear an ordinary man amongst the Indians in a just repentance for having been ambitious to pass for a god amongst the Persians . To speak ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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