The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... pleasure alone , i.e. , whatever halts at pleasure ; and thus fables which are in good moral standing since they have utility as their goal are more important to poetry than those whose morality is dubious since they have as their ...
... pleasure alone , i.e. , whatever halts at pleasure ; and thus fables which are in good moral standing since they have utility as their goal are more important to poetry than those whose morality is dubious since they have as their ...
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... pleasure there is no poetry and on the other hand the more pleasure to be found in it the more poetical it is and the better it achieves its purpose which is utility . Now the pleasure of any reading may be divided into three kinds ...
... pleasure there is no poetry and on the other hand the more pleasure to be found in it the more poetical it is and the better it achieves its purpose which is utility . Now the pleasure of any reading may be divided into three kinds ...
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... pleasure . " The object is denoted by riches , which are not riches but when they are used , without which they remain unfruitful , and will never occasion the birth of pleasure . The faculty is expressed by poverty , and which is ...
... pleasure . " The object is denoted by riches , which are not riches but when they are used , without which they remain unfruitful , and will never occasion the birth of pleasure . The faculty is expressed by poverty , and which is ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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