The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 155
... common opinion that history heretofore went by the name of romance , which word was afterwards applied to fictions ; which is an invincible argument that the one arose out of the other . " Romances , " [ saith Pigna , ] " according to ...
... common opinion that history heretofore went by the name of romance , which word was afterwards applied to fictions ; which is an invincible argument that the one arose out of the other . " Romances , " [ saith Pigna , ] " according to ...
Page 161
... common sense than to bel esprit . True wit , answered Aristo , is inseparable from common sense , and it is a mistake to confuse it with that sort of vivacity which has nothing solid in it . One might say that judgment is the foundation ...
... common sense than to bel esprit . True wit , answered Aristo , is inseparable from common sense , and it is a mistake to confuse it with that sort of vivacity which has nothing solid in it . One might say that judgment is the foundation ...
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... common sense which is hardly less the contrary of wit than is a false brilliance . The common sense I am speaking of is entirely different ; it is gay , lively , full of fire , like that which is seen in the Essays of Montaigne and in ...
... common sense which is hardly less the contrary of wit than is a false brilliance . The common sense I am speaking of is entirely different ; it is gay , lively , full of fire , like that which is seen in the Essays of Montaigne and in ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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