The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... true that for the epic there is , as far as I know , no example of this latter kind ; but that there may be one is clearly seen in that tragedy and epic do not differ in subject , and that only the way in which the subject is treated ...
... true that for the epic there is , as far as I know , no example of this latter kind ; but that there may be one is clearly seen in that tragedy and epic do not differ in subject , and that only the way in which the subject is treated ...
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... true judges does not con- ceal from me the little merit of his Aeneas . If among so many noble things which affect me in Homer and Virgil I cannot forbear to remark what is defective in them , so amongst those passages that displease me ...
... true judges does not con- ceal from me the little merit of his Aeneas . If among so many noble things which affect me in Homer and Virgil I cannot forbear to remark what is defective in them , so amongst those passages that displease me ...
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... true sense is that he always so recovers himself upon his feet so that nothing overturns his designs or his fortune . In short , what is true is always true though it be joined to that which is false . A good pistole loses none of its ...
... true sense is that he always so recovers himself upon his feet so that nothing overturns his designs or his fortune . In short , what is true is always true though it be joined to that which is false . A good pistole loses none of its ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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