The complete works of Voltaire, Volume 3, Part 2Institut et Musée Voltaire, 1968 - French literature |
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Page 238
... Italian taste and poetry against Voltaire's ' aspersions ' with criticism of Voltaire's strictures on Paradise lost : I have met in several places of this new treatise with such wrong notions of the Italian national taste in literature ...
... Italian taste and poetry against Voltaire's ' aspersions ' with criticism of Voltaire's strictures on Paradise lost : I have met in several places of this new treatise with such wrong notions of the Italian national taste in literature ...
Page 240
... Italian to read at least the beginning of that fine poem . The language is pure , the versification simple and sublime , and in blank verse ' ( p.31 ) . The reader is advised to look to Gravina rather than Voltaire as the more reliable ...
... Italian to read at least the beginning of that fine poem . The language is pure , the versification simple and sublime , and in blank verse ' ( p.31 ) . The reader is advised to look to Gravina rather than Voltaire as the more reliable ...
Page 245
... Italian epic poets a quarter of a century earlier . He saw reflected ' the rise and progress of that ill- grounded contempt the French have for the Italians , and the true spring of all that cold scurrility which monsieur de Voltaire ...
... Italian epic poets a quarter of a century earlier . He saw reflected ' the rise and progress of that ill- grounded contempt the French have for the Italians , and the true spring of all that cold scurrility which monsieur de Voltaire ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Critical edition by Richard Waller | 9 |
AN ESSAY ON THE CIVIL WARS OF FRANCE | 42 |
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