The complete works of Voltaire, Volume 3, Part 2Institut et Musée Voltaire, 1968 - French literature |
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Page 184
... French essays is one of style and tone . The Essay's air of conversational freshness and verve disappears in the French . version , to be replaced by a measured , restrained register of language . As early as his letter to Thiriot of ...
... French essays is one of style and tone . The Essay's air of conversational freshness and verve disappears in the French . version , to be replaced by a measured , restrained register of language . As early as his letter to Thiriot of ...
Page 211
... French have no epic poem . Discussion of this latter point , however , moves in a different direction ; it is here that Voltaire took the most significant steps to adapt his English essay to ' the french meridian ' . The freedom issue ...
... French have no epic poem . Discussion of this latter point , however , moves in a different direction ; it is here that Voltaire took the most significant steps to adapt his English essay to ' the french meridian ' . The freedom issue ...
Page 239
... French elegy should be writ in the same style as an English or Latin , or else it is not an elegy ' ( p.13 ) . Voltaire's strategy with regard to La Henriade was further undermined by Rolli's allusion to Télémaque as the model French ...
... French elegy should be writ in the same style as an English or Latin , or else it is not an elegy ' ( p.13 ) . Voltaire's strategy with regard to La Henriade was further undermined by Rolli's allusion to Télémaque as the model French ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Critical edition by Richard Waller | 9 |
AN ESSAY ON THE CIVIL WARS OF FRANCE | 42 |
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