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... verses of Chau- lieu and the odes of J. B. Rousseau- compositions destitute of any true re- ligious sentiment , and producing their effect only by some force and senten- tiousness of expression , combined with a sonorous and harmonious ...
... verses of Chau- lieu and the odes of J. B. Rousseau- compositions destitute of any true re- ligious sentiment , and producing their effect only by some force and senten- tiousness of expression , combined with a sonorous and harmonious ...
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... verse ; and he illustrated his proposition by the production of an Edipus in prose and an Edipus in verse , which cer- tainly left the reader in a pleasing uncertainty which was most intoler- able . 1 And yet , in his speculations as to ...
... verse ; and he illustrated his proposition by the production of an Edipus in prose and an Edipus in verse , which cer- tainly left the reader in a pleasing uncertainty which was most intoler- able . 1 And yet , in his speculations as to ...
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... verses . He had few of those bold forms of expression , those origi- nal turns , and those bold images , which form the accent of poetry . He was not less rigorously faithful to the etiquette of our theatre . He even ex- aggerated its ...
... verses . He had few of those bold forms of expression , those origi- nal turns , and those bold images , which form the accent of poetry . He was not less rigorously faithful to the etiquette of our theatre . He even ex- aggerated its ...
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... verse , and thus to give it more the appearance of a formal ora- tion , Voltaire has placed less appro- priately in the mouth of Cassius , and his version , we admit , is fairly execu- ted . But how absurd the unanimous reply which he ...
... verse , and thus to give it more the appearance of a formal ora- tion , Voltaire has placed less appro- priately in the mouth of Cassius , and his version , we admit , is fairly execu- ted . But how absurd the unanimous reply which he ...
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... verses " equal to those of Homer ; " for in fact they were borrowed from him . At a more advanced age , he tried trage- dy : with what success , the epigrams of Racine attest . Eclogues , lettres galantes , dialogues of the dead , suc ...
... verses " equal to those of Homer ; " for in fact they were borrowed from him . At a more advanced age , he tried trage- dy : with what success , the epigrams of Racine attest . Eclogues , lettres galantes , dialogues of the dead , suc ...
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