The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... hero with a buskin dressed . Then Sophocles , the genius of his age , Increased the pomp and beauty of the stage , Engaged the Chorus song in every part , And polished rugged verse by rules of art ; He in the Greek did those perfections ...
... hero with a buskin dressed . Then Sophocles , the genius of his age , Increased the pomp and beauty of the stage , Engaged the Chorus song in every part , And polished rugged verse by rules of art ; He in the Greek did those perfections ...
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... hero must be disjoined from the poem ; and in the second place , the hero having been obliged to absent himself for a reason antecedent to the action and placed distinct from the fable , he ought not so far to embrace this opportunity ...
... hero must be disjoined from the poem ; and in the second place , the hero having been obliged to absent himself for a reason antecedent to the action and placed distinct from the fable , he ought not so far to embrace this opportunity ...
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... hero . This fills almost all the poem . For not only this real absence lasted several years , but even when the hero returned he does not discover himself ; and this prudent disguise , from whence he reaped so much advantage , has the ...
... hero . This fills almost all the poem . For not only this real absence lasted several years , but even when the hero returned he does not discover himself ; and this prudent disguise , from whence he reaped so much advantage , has the ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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