The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... opinion it is a greater defect to shine excessively than not to shine enough . There is nothing finer than the conception you have of the bel esprit , answered Eugene . I very nearly said there is nothing finer than this pic- ture of ...
... opinion it is a greater defect to shine excessively than not to shine enough . There is nothing finer than the conception you have of the bel esprit , answered Eugene . I very nearly said there is nothing finer than this pic- ture of ...
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... opinion of the merits of the cause against theirs , whereas Brébeuf turns this noble image of Cato advanced above the gods into one of Cato subject to Pompey . I do not pretend to justify the translation , says Eudoxus , and I agree ...
... opinion of the merits of the cause against theirs , whereas Brébeuf turns this noble image of Cato advanced above the gods into one of Cato subject to Pompey . I do not pretend to justify the translation , says Eudoxus , and I agree ...
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... opinion , because it wants variety . XXIII The admirable is all that which is against the ordinary course of nature . The probable is whatever suits with common opinion . The changing of Niobe into a stone is an event that holds of the ...
... opinion , because it wants variety . XXIII The admirable is all that which is against the ordinary course of nature . The probable is whatever suits with common opinion . The changing of Niobe into a stone is an event that holds of the ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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