The complete works of Voltaire, Volume 3, Part 2Institut et Musée Voltaire, 1968 - French literature |
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Page 188
... Homer is a particularly illuminating example of a ' political ' change of approach tailored carefully to a French ... Homer's faults easily outweighing comments on the beauties of his poetry . Critical opinion in early eighteenth ...
... Homer is a particularly illuminating example of a ' political ' change of approach tailored carefully to a French ... Homer's faults easily outweighing comments on the beauties of his poetry . Critical opinion in early eighteenth ...
Page 192
... Homer that relate to La Henriade , as well as to his lifelong war against those aspects of geometric thinking that sought to reject not only the beauty of Homer , but the beauty of poetry per se , constitute the central plank of the ...
... Homer that relate to La Henriade , as well as to his lifelong war against those aspects of geometric thinking that sought to reject not only the beauty of Homer , but the beauty of poetry per se , constitute the central plank of the ...
Page 315
... Homer It would seem too assuming , and prove very useless , to expatiate upon Homer and Virgil , especially in England , where there is scarce a Gentleman unacquainted with Latin and Greek . 2 As to Homer , those who cannot read him in ...
... Homer It would seem too assuming , and prove very useless , to expatiate upon Homer and Virgil , especially in England , where there is scarce a Gentleman unacquainted with Latin and Greek . 2 As to Homer , those who cannot read him in ...
Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Critical edition by Richard Waller | 9 |
AN ESSAY ON THE CIVIL WARS OF FRANCE | 42 |
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