The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... romances written in verse , much less of epic poems , which besides their being written in verse have several essential differences that distinguish them from romances , though in some other respects there is a great resemblance between ...
... romances written in verse , much less of epic poems , which besides their being written in verse have several essential differences that distinguish them from romances , though in some other respects there is a great resemblance between ...
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... romances those histories which are notorious for their many falsities , such as that for instance of Herodotus ( which however has not so many as it is generally charged withal ) , Hanno's voyages , the life of Apollonius written by ...
... romances those histories which are notorious for their many falsities , such as that for instance of Herodotus ( which however has not so many as it is generally charged withal ) , Hanno's voyages , the life of Apollonius written by ...
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... romances , were very different from our modern romances ; they were composed on purpose to be sung , and were consequently very short . There has been a collection made of several of them , some of which are so very ancient that they ...
... romances , were very different from our modern romances ; they were composed on purpose to be sung , and were consequently very short . There has been a collection made of several of them , some of which are so very ancient that they ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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