The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 128
... Sometimes we must have a plain , unartificial , sometimes a tender and sometimes a melancholy whining love , without regarding where that sim- plicity , tenderness , or grief is requisite ; and the reason of it is plain : for as we must ...
... Sometimes we must have a plain , unartificial , sometimes a tender and sometimes a melancholy whining love , without regarding where that sim- plicity , tenderness , or grief is requisite ; and the reason of it is plain : for as we must ...
Page 132
... sometimes fierce and sometimes childish . One while he drags the body of Hector in a barbarous manner , now he whines to the goddess his mother , like a child , to drive away the flies from that of Patroclus , his dear friend . Their ...
... sometimes fierce and sometimes childish . One while he drags the body of Hector in a barbarous manner , now he whines to the goddess his mother , like a child , to drive away the flies from that of Patroclus , his dear friend . Their ...
Page 331
... sometimes loaden with descriptions , grows heavy in particulars and gives you an anatomy , and sometimes he feigns , exaggerates , and goes so much beyond the natural truth that he makes a romance . 8 Ronsard and Balzac have each in ...
... sometimes loaden with descriptions , grows heavy in particulars and gives you an anatomy , and sometimes he feigns , exaggerates , and goes so much beyond the natural truth that he makes a romance . 8 Ronsard and Balzac have each in ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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