The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... expression which he quoted in the addition to his Préface is from one of Corneille's most regular tragedies ) , it drew attention to the faculties of the poet and admitted a subjective expression in art ( apparent in Boileau's Discours ...
... expression which he quoted in the addition to his Préface is from one of Corneille's most regular tragedies ) , it drew attention to the faculties of the poet and admitted a subjective expression in art ( apparent in Boileau's Discours ...
Page 292
... expressions be stately and great ; there must likewise be heat and vehe- mence , and above all , there must shine ... expression is so important that for the attaining it it is not enough to propose Homer and Virgil ; it must be ...
... expressions be stately and great ; there must likewise be heat and vehe- mence , and above all , there must shine ... 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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... expression or image most worthy the dignity of the truth it treats of . Little wits cannot find the simple expression , and use synonyms . Young men are dazzled with the luster of antitheses , and generally make use of them . True wits ...
... expression or image most worthy the dignity of the truth it treats of . Little wits cannot find the simple expression , and use synonyms . Young men are dazzled with the luster of antitheses , and generally make use of them . True wits ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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