The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... rules to write a good tragedy by , and yet so few good ones are now made that the players are obliged to revive and ... rules , but I will never forgive the rules of Aristotle for having put Monsieur d'Aubignac upon writing so bad a ...
... rules to write a good tragedy by , and yet so few good ones are now made that the players are obliged to revive and ... rules , but I will never forgive the rules of Aristotle for having put Monsieur d'Aubignac upon writing so bad a ...
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... rules and followed no other guides but their own genius and capricious fancy . Truth is , the wits of Italy were so prepossessed in favor of the romantic poetry of Pulci , Boi- ardo , and Ariosto that they regarded no other rules than ...
... rules and followed no other guides but their own genius and capricious fancy . Truth is , the wits of Italy were so prepossessed in favor of the romantic poetry of Pulci , Boi- ardo , and Ariosto that they regarded no other rules than ...
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... rules , nor to make an history of Aristotle's treatise of poesy , or examine whether it is complete , which many others have done ; all these things I suppose . Only I affirm that these rules well considered , one shall find them made ...
... rules , nor to make an history of Aristotle's treatise of poesy , or examine whether it is complete , which many others have done ; all these things I suppose . Only I affirm that these rules well considered , one shall find them made ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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