The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 183
... pleasing , a quality which shows in their faces and which is obvious at first sight . I assure you , said Aristo , that this latter something is as hidden and indescribable as the other . Because it is visible it is not better known or ...
... pleasing , a quality which shows in their faces and which is obvious at first sight . I assure you , said Aristo , that this latter something is as hidden and indescribable as the other . Because it is visible it is not better known or ...
Page 190
... pleasing ; but it must be admitted that the works of Voiture , which have those secret charms , those fine and hid- den graces of which we are speaking , are much more pleasing still . Let us go further , my dear Eugene , and let us say ...
... pleasing ; but it must be admitted that the works of Voiture , which have those secret charms , those fine and hid- den graces of which we are speaking , are much more pleasing still . Let us go further , my dear Eugene , and let us say ...
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... pleasing ideas , is fond of a shepherd's life ; but though the vile and low employments of shepherds were described to me with all the exactness possible , I should never be taken with them , and my imagination would not in the least be ...
... pleasing ideas , is fond of a shepherd's life ; but though the vile and low employments of shepherds were described to me with all the exactness possible , I should never be taken with them , and my imagination would not in the least be ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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