The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 153
... mind , is wanting , we support it with fiction , which is in imitation of truth . And as in the midst of plenty , to regale our taste , we sometimes quit our bread and usual food for the sake of ragouts , so when the mind is possessed ...
... mind , is wanting , we support it with fiction , which is in imitation of truth . And as in the midst of plenty , to regale our taste , we sometimes quit our bread and usual food for the sake of ragouts , so when the mind is possessed ...
Page 163
... mind , however good they may be , are not so felicitous in their works as that painter was in his . The most learned writings and even the most ingenious are judged unfavorably in our day if they are not delicately handled . Besides ...
... mind , however good they may be , are not so felicitous in their works as that painter was in his . The most learned writings and even the most ingenious are judged unfavorably in our day if they are not delicately handled . Besides ...
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... mind . 23 What you say is true in a general way , answered Aristo , and I admit there is a kind of contradiction between beauty of the mind and that of the body , this latter being woman's share ; but that does not keep certain ones ...
... mind . 23 What you say is true in a general way , answered Aristo , and I admit there is a kind of contradiction between beauty of the mind and that of the body , this latter being woman's share ; but that does not keep certain ones ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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