The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... example , there is in it no mixture of sacred history with profane poetry . It does not belong , either , among the first group of natural novelties , because being a poem and an epic poem , as we shall show later , poetry and the epic ...
... example , there is in it no mixture of sacred history with profane poetry . It does not belong , either , among the first group of natural novelties , because being a poem and an epic poem , as we shall show later , poetry and the epic ...
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... example of that elegance which is both old and new , which has traversed so many ages without being corrupted , and which is not less beautiful now because it was beautiful five hundred years ago . If you can show me that miracle I ...
... example of that elegance which is both old and new , which has traversed so many ages without being corrupted , and which is not less beautiful now because it was beautiful five hundred years ago . If you can show me that miracle I ...
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... example . He takes the reason from his particular opinion and the example from his writings . He confesses the ancients , as unequal and incorrect as they are , have a great many good lines ; he cites them , and they appear so fine that ...
... example . He takes the reason from his particular opinion and the example from his writings . He confesses the ancients , as unequal and incorrect as they are , have a great many good lines ; he cites them , and they appear so fine that ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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