The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... doubt ; and granted that the modesty you profess so precisely prevents you from depending upon yourself and makes you mistrust that solid judgment upon which others of the most judicious rely so willingly ; in short , granted there was ...
... doubt ; and granted that the modesty you profess so precisely prevents you from depending upon yourself and makes you mistrust that solid judgment upon which others of the most judicious rely so willingly ; in short , granted there was ...
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... doubt better than the author of Lancelot ; but you believe it only because they report generalities whereas in the latter you see the individual actions and the very words of the characters as they were done and uttered by the real men ...
... doubt better than the author of Lancelot ; but you believe it only because they report generalities whereas in the latter you see the individual actions and the very words of the characters as they were done and uttered by the real men ...
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... doubt but that this would be very ingenious and taking ; but it would require some art , and the shortest cut , it seems , is to make the shepherds speak the common dialect of praise , which is very big and lofty indeed , but very ...
... doubt but that this would be very ingenious and taking ; but it would require some art , and the shortest cut , it seems , is to make the shepherds speak the common dialect of praise , which is very big and lofty indeed , but very ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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