The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 56
... passions and tensions . This was his opinion of those passions : He did not include them among the vices nor did he allow them to be numbered among the virtues , and so without defending them and without banishing them from human life ...
... passions and tensions . This was his opinion of those passions : He did not include them among the vices nor did he allow them to be numbered among the virtues , and so without defending them and without banishing them from human life ...
Page 322
... passions of tragedy are different from those of the epic poem . In the former , terror and pity have the chief place ; the passion that seems most peculiar to epic poetry is admiration . Besides this admiration , which in general ...
... passions of tragedy are different from those of the epic poem . In the former , terror and pity have the chief place ; the passion that seems most peculiar to epic poetry is admiration . Besides this admiration , which in general ...
Page 344
... passions . So in the state of life which we have now de- scribed there is a concurrence of the two strongest passions , laziness and love , which thus are both satisfied at once ; and that we may be as happy as it is possible we should ...
... passions . So in the state of life which we have now de- scribed there is a concurrence of the two strongest passions , laziness and love , which thus are both satisfied at once ; and that we may be as happy as it is possible we should ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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