The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 110
... beginning of one act and the beginning of the next . I repeat what I have said elsewhere , 11 that when we take a longer time , as , for instance , ten hours , I should prefer that the eight extra be used up in the time between the acts ...
... beginning of one act and the beginning of the next . I repeat what I have said elsewhere , 11 that when we take a longer time , as , for instance , ten hours , I should prefer that the eight extra be used up in the time between the acts ...
Page 247
... beginning plain ; and take good heed Too soon you mount not on the airy steed . Nor tell your reader , in a thundering verse , " I sing the conqueror of the universe . ” 25 What can an author after this produce ? The laboring mountain ...
... beginning plain ; and take good heed Too soon you mount not on the airy steed . Nor tell your reader , in a thundering verse , " I sing the conqueror of the universe . ” 25 What can an author after this produce ? The laboring mountain ...
Page 366
... beginning with their most elementary aspects . If a medicine suddenly gave him back his memory he would be spared a great deal of trouble , for he would find himself in possession of all he had known before ; and to go on he would have ...
... beginning with their most elementary aspects . If a medicine suddenly gave him back his memory he would be spared a great deal of trouble , for he would find himself in possession of all he had known before ; and to go on he would have ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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