The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... truth of events , since they depend on chance , de- flected their very laudable intentions through fortuitous and uncertain happenings , with one accord banished the truth from their Parnassus , some composing by caprice without mixing ...
... truth of events , since they depend on chance , de- flected their very laudable intentions through fortuitous and uncertain happenings , with one accord banished the truth from their Parnassus , some composing by caprice without mixing ...
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... truth which cannot be believed without other aid and comfort . Thus it will suffice for the approval of a poem that it have verisimilitude because of the quick im- pression which verisimilitude makes upon the imagination , the latter ...
... truth which cannot be believed without other aid and comfort . Thus it will suffice for the approval of a poem that it have verisimilitude because of the quick im- pression which verisimilitude makes upon the imagination , the latter ...
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... truth . So that , in short , the first love the fiction for the sake of the appearance of truth under which it is disguised ; but the later are disgusted at this im- aginary truth by reason of the real falsity that is concealed under it ...
... truth . So that , in short , the first love the fiction for the sake of the appearance of truth under which it is disguised ; but the later are disgusted at this im- aginary truth by reason of the real falsity that is concealed under it ...
Contents
Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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