The Continental Model: Selected French Critical Essays of the Seventeenth Century, in English TranslationScott Elledge, Donald Stephen Schier |
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... verse ? Good men every day make vows for those that are like themselves , for the success of a good cause ; their vows are not always heard , and Providence sometimes turns things otherwise . The gods declared for Caesar in the event ...
... verse ? Good men every day make vows for those that are like themselves , for the success of a good cause ; their vows are not always heard , and Providence sometimes turns things otherwise . The gods declared for Caesar in the event ...
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... verse , and the most labored sense , Displease us if the ear once take offense . Our ancient verse , as homely as the times , Was rude , unmeasured , only tagged with rhymes : Number and cadence , that have since been shown , To those ...
... verse , and the most labored sense , Displease us if the ear once take offense . Our ancient verse , as homely as the times , Was rude , unmeasured , only tagged with rhymes : Number and cadence , that have since been shown , To those ...
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... verse . That monotony of the Alexandrine verse , which can suffer no difference nor any variety of numbers , seems to me likewise a great weakness in the French poetry . And though the vigor of the verse might be sustained either by the ...
... verse . That monotony of the Alexandrine verse , which can suffer no difference nor any variety of numbers , seems to me likewise a great weakness in the French poetry . And though the vigor of the verse might be sustained either by the ...
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Jean Chapelain | 3 |
On the Reading of the Old Romances c 1646 | 31 |
JeanFrançois Sarasin | 55 |
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