The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 161
... sense than to bel esprit . True wit , answered Aristo , is inseparable from common sense , and it is a mistake to confuse it with that sort of vivacity which has nothing solid in it . One might say that judgment is the foundation for ...
... sense than to bel esprit . True wit , answered Aristo , is inseparable from common sense , and it is a mistake to confuse it with that sort of vivacity which has nothing solid in it . One might say that judgment is the foundation for ...
Page 196
... sense which displeases me is the very sense which they admire . 6 To be convinced of this , you need only remember what one of Lucan's admirers says in his reflections upon our translators . According to him , Brébeuf flags sometimes ...
... sense which displeases me is the very sense which they admire . 6 To be convinced of this , you need only remember what one of Lucan's admirers says in his reflections upon our translators . According to him , Brébeuf flags sometimes ...
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... sense : one proper , which is false ; the other figurative , which is true . Here the proper and false sense is that the Cardinal always so recovers himself upon his feet as never to fall on the ground ; the figura- tive and true sense ...
... sense : one proper , which is false ; the other figurative , which is true . Here the proper and false sense is that the Cardinal always so recovers himself upon his feet as never to fall on the ground ; the figura- tive and true sense ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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