The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 196
... noble- ness of the Latin one , and that this is misrepresenting the author's sense , because Lucan , whose mind was filled with Cato's virtues , intended to advance him above the gods when he set Cato's opinion of the merits of the ...
... noble- ness of the Latin one , and that this is misrepresenting the author's sense , because Lucan , whose mind was filled with Cato's virtues , intended to advance him above the gods when he set Cato's opinion of the merits of the ...
Page 263
... noble wit may , without crime , Receive a lawful tribute for his time , Yet I abhor those writers who despise Their honor , and alone their profits prize , Who their Apollo basely will degrade , And of a noble science make a trade.1 19 ...
... noble wit may , without crime , Receive a lawful tribute for his time , Yet I abhor those writers who despise Their honor , and alone their profits prize , Who their Apollo basely will degrade , And of a noble science make a trade.1 19 ...
Page 280
... noble thoughts , and an air of majesty to deserve that name . " A sonnet , ode , elegy , epigram , and those little kind of verses that often make so much noise in the world are ordinarily no more than the mere productions of ...
... noble thoughts , and an air of majesty to deserve that name . " A sonnet , ode , elegy , epigram , and those little kind of verses that often make so much noise in the world are ordinarily no more than the mere productions of ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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