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... Euripides , or Menander , And France , without having formed a fingle Epopia , has carried dramatic poetry to so high a pitch of perfection in Corneille , Racine , and Moliere , For a confirmation of the foregoing remark on Statius ...
... Euripides , or Menander , And France , without having formed a fingle Epopia , has carried dramatic poetry to so high a pitch of perfection in Corneille , Racine , and Moliere , For a confirmation of the foregoing remark on Statius ...
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In this the luft , in that the avarice Were means , not ends ; ambition was the vice * The same passion excited Richlieu ta throw up the dyke at Rochelle , and to dispute the prize of poetry with Corneille ; whom to traduce was the ...
In this the luft , in that the avarice Were means , not ends ; ambition was the vice * The same passion excited Richlieu ta throw up the dyke at Rochelle , and to dispute the prize of poetry with Corneille ; whom to traduce was the ...
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Neither SPENCER or MILTON , or DANTE or Tasso , or CORNEILLE * , were patronized by the governments under which they lived . And HORACE and VirGIL and BOILEAU were formed , before they had an opportunity of flattering AUGUSTUS and LEWIS ...
Neither SPENCER or MILTON , or DANTE or Tasso , or CORNEILLE * , were patronized by the governments under which they lived . And HORACE and VirGIL and BOILEAU were formed , before they had an opportunity of flattering AUGUSTUS and LEWIS ...
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Which line Corneille took for his motto . 39 . Non tamen idcirco contemnas lippus inungi + . E I'll do what MEAD and Chefelden advise ... MEAD , a judge of pure Latinity , having disputed with Pope on the impropriety of the expression ...
Which line Corneille took for his motto . 39 . Non tamen idcirco contemnas lippus inungi + . E I'll do what MEAD and Chefelden advise ... MEAD , a judge of pure Latinity , having disputed with Pope on the impropriety of the expression ...
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had no dramatic piece equal to the Silent Woman of Ben Johnson , performed 16091 At which time ; Corneille was but three years old . The rules of the drama are as much violated in the * Cid , 1637 , beau- . tiful as it is , as in the ...
had no dramatic piece equal to the Silent Woman of Ben Johnson , performed 16091 At which time ; Corneille was but three years old . The rules of the drama are as much violated in the * Cid , 1637 , beau- . tiful as it is , as in the ...
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