The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... necessary circumstances as we see by the difference between the historian's style and the poet's , even when they are dealing with the same occurrences and the same events . Now since war and peace have notably different tempos and ...
... necessary circumstances as we see by the difference between the historian's style and the poet's , even when they are dealing with the same occurrences and the same events . Now since war and peace have notably different tempos and ...
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... necessary that we know exactly what the actors are doing in the intervals which separate the acts , nor even that they contribute to the action when they do not appear on the stage ; but it is necessary that each act leave us in the ...
... necessary that we know exactly what the actors are doing in the intervals which separate the acts , nor even that they contribute to the action when they do not appear on the stage ; but it is necessary that each act leave us in the ...
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... necessary element of style , 292 ; necessary in expressing the passions , 294 De Lingendes , Jean , 276 Demetrius Phalerius , 290 , 293 Demosthenes : moderns can equal him , 358 ; more prefect than Homer and Virgil , in- ferior to ...
... necessary element of style , 292 ; necessary in expressing the passions , 294 De Lingendes , Jean , 276 Demetrius Phalerius , 290 , 293 Demosthenes : moderns can equal him , 358 ; more prefect than Homer and Virgil , in- ferior to ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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