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Page 294
... French poets . This is his exordium : Qui veut ouir , qui veut scavoir , De roi en roi , & d'hoir en hoir , Qui cils furent , & d'où cils vinrent , Qui Angleterre primes tinrent . We may judge , from this paffage , of the state of the ...
... French poets . This is his exordium : Qui veut ouir , qui veut scavoir , De roi en roi , & d'hoir en hoir , Qui cils furent , & d'où cils vinrent , Qui Angleterre primes tinrent . We may judge , from this paffage , of the state of the ...
Page 355
... French poets , I can find none of this age , but barren chroniclers , and harsh romancers in rhime , without the elegance , elevation , invention , or harmony of Chaucer . Pafquiere in- forms us , that it was about the time of Charles ...
... French poets , I can find none of this age , but barren chroniclers , and harsh romancers in rhime , without the elegance , elevation , invention , or harmony of Chaucer . Pafquiere in- forms us , that it was about the time of Charles ...
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... French , Italian , and Spanish of these latter ages . In- deed there is a vaft difference betwixt arguing like Perault in behalf of the French poets against Homer and Virgil , and betwixt giving the English poets their undoubted due of ...
... French , Italian , and Spanish of these latter ages . In- deed there is a vaft difference betwixt arguing like Perault in behalf of the French poets against Homer and Virgil , and betwixt giving the English poets their undoubted due of ...
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