The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... imagination to accept that a thing is rather than is not , is acquired in two ways : the one imperfect and incapable of persuad- ing , as being the mere report either of an historian or of another ( and I call this incapable of ...
... imagination to accept that a thing is rather than is not , is acquired in two ways : the one imperfect and incapable of persuad- ing , as being the mere report either of an historian or of another ( and I call this incapable of ...
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... imagination , which works with ease , is less concerned and engaged than the understanding , whose operations are very laborious . And forasmuch as we are naturally shocked at the prospect of labor , the mind never en- gages in those ...
... imagination , which works with ease , is less concerned and engaged than the understanding , whose operations are very laborious . And forasmuch as we are naturally shocked at the prospect of labor , the mind never en- gages in those ...
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... imagination , 279 ; should be stronger than wit , 284-285 ; rarer than imagination , 325 Justin , Saint ( the Martyr ) , 289 Juvenal , Boileau on , 229 Kyrie Eleison of Montauban , 151 La Bruyère , Jean de , " Of Polite Learning , " 324 ...
... imagination , 279 ; should be stronger than wit , 284-285 ; rarer than imagination , 325 Justin , Saint ( the Martyr ) , 289 Juvenal , Boileau on , 229 Kyrie Eleison of Montauban , 151 La Bruyère , Jean de , " Of Polite Learning , " 324 ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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