The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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Page 117
... speak advantageously enough of his greatness ; but when he appears himself he has not force enough to sustain it , unless out of modesty he has a mind to appear an ordinary man amongst the Indians in a just repentance for having been ...
... speak advantageously enough of his greatness ; but when he appears himself he has not force enough to sustain it , unless out of modesty he has a mind to appear an ordinary man amongst the Indians in a just repentance for having been ...
Page 118
... speak better than the Greeks , the Romans than the Romans , the Carthaginians than the citizens of Carthage speak themselves - Cor- neille , who is almost the only person that has a true taste of antiquity , has had the misfortune not ...
... speak better than the Greeks , the Romans than the Romans , the Carthaginians than the citizens of Carthage speak themselves - Cor- neille , who is almost the only person that has a true taste of antiquity , has had the misfortune not ...
Page 194
... speak well , or rather , one can neither speak nor write cor- rectly unless his thoughts be just . He promised these reflections when he told us at the end of his book that he had several other scruples about the thoughts of authors ...
... speak well , or rather , one can neither speak nor write cor- rectly unless his thoughts be just . He promised these reflections when he told us at the end of his book that he had several other scruples about the thoughts of authors ...
Contents
Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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