The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 55
... DISCOURSE ON TRAGEDY OR RE- MARKS ON " TYRANNIC LOVE " BY MONSIEUR DE SCUDERY The Amour tyrannique by Monsieur de Scudéry is so perfect and so finished a poem that if Time had not grudged to the age of Louis the Just the birth of ...
... DISCOURSE ON TRAGEDY OR RE- MARKS ON " TYRANNIC LOVE " BY MONSIEUR DE SCUDERY The Amour tyrannique by Monsieur de Scudéry is so perfect and so finished a poem that if Time had not grudged to the age of Louis the Just the birth of ...
Page 96
... discourses those maxims and general propositions which contain known truths and are only applied in the play according as the subject will allow , tending more to instruct the audience in the rules of morality than to explain any part ...
... discourses those maxims and general propositions which contain known truths and are only applied in the play according as the subject will allow , tending more to instruct the audience in the rules of morality than to explain any part ...
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... discourse a certain grace and delicacy which makes the principal ornament and most uni- versal beauty . XXIX The loftiness of expression is so important that for the attaining it it is not enough to propose Homer and Virgil ; it must be ...
... discourse a certain grace and delicacy which makes the principal ornament and most uni- versal beauty . XXIX The loftiness of expression is so important that for the attaining it it is not enough to propose Homer and Virgil ; it must be ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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