The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... esprit is like those rich and wise people who live magnificently in every way , yet who nevertheless are not extravagant . By that criterion , said Eugene , Marino would not be a bel esprit . For never has a more fertile imagination ...
... esprit is like those rich and wise people who live magnificently in every way , yet who nevertheless are not extravagant . By that criterion , said Eugene , Marino would not be a bel esprit . For never has a more fertile imagination ...
Page 167
... esprit ; I do not aspire so high and I should be ridiculous to do so . But one must not aspire to it , said Eugene . One must not even be grate- ful that one is a bel esprit in order really to be one ; and if I dared touch the picture ...
... esprit ; I do not aspire so high and I should be ridiculous to do so . But one must not aspire to it , said Eugene . One must not even be grate- ful that one is a bel esprit in order really to be one ; and if I dared touch the picture ...
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... esprit is rarer in cold countries because nature in those parts is drearier and more languishing so to speak . Say rather , remarked Eugene , that the bel esprit as you have defined him is not at all compatible with the coarse ...
... esprit is rarer in cold countries because nature in those parts is drearier and more languishing so to speak . Say rather , remarked Eugene , that the bel esprit as you have defined him is not at all compatible with the coarse ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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