The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... language , for they are not intel- ligible or are so only through what goes before or what comes after . You will see others so strange that , since you will not be able to understand them by guesswork or by any other way , you will ...
... language , for they are not intel- ligible or are so only through what goes before or what comes after . You will see others so strange that , since you will not be able to understand them by guesswork or by any other way , you will ...
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... language . For at that time the Provencials were better skilled in literature and poetry than all the rest of France . This language was what the Romans had introduced with their conquests , and which , in time , was corrupted with a ...
... language . For at that time the Provencials were better skilled in literature and poetry than all the rest of France . This language was what the Romans had introduced with their conquests , and which , in time , was corrupted with a ...
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... languages , yet they have but one language when they say that you are the true father of your country . " . " 17 Here are two senses , as you see , and two senses which make an antithesis : speak several languages and have but one language ...
... languages , yet they have but one language when they say that you are the true father of your country . " . " 17 Here are two senses , as you see , and two senses which make an antithesis : speak several languages and have but one language ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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