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... literature begins . Of course , this is not a scientific division . By no stretch of language can Shakspere or Ben Jonson be numbered among ancient authors : all that I mean is this , that Addison and Pope are the first writers 1.
... literature begins . Of course , this is not a scientific division . By no stretch of language can Shakspere or Ben Jonson be numbered among ancient authors : all that I mean is this , that Addison and Pope are the first writers 1.
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... language may serve to show us that it is only by a great deal of attrition that a simple style is produced . We never open a German book with- out noticing the artificial construction and shapeless form of the German sentence , both of ...
... language may serve to show us that it is only by a great deal of attrition that a simple style is produced . We never open a German book with- out noticing the artificial construction and shapeless form of the German sentence , both of ...
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... language for every day of the week and in seven on Sunday , but he also was familiar with foreign literatures , and doubtless copied Balzac , the famous letter - writer who had really noth- ing to say , and so devoted himself to saying ...
... language for every day of the week and in seven on Sunday , but he also was familiar with foreign literatures , and doubtless copied Balzac , the famous letter - writer who had really noth- ing to say , and so devoted himself to saying ...
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... language of Italy . In France we find Ronsard complaining of the meagre- ness of his native tongue , while at the same time he de- nounces those who avoided the difficulty by writing in Latin . He , too , was abused for introducing ...
... language of Italy . In France we find Ronsard complaining of the meagre- ness of his native tongue , while at the same time he de- nounces those who avoided the difficulty by writing in Latin . He , too , was abused for introducing ...
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... languages . Sébilet , in his “ Poé- tique " ( 1548 ) , says : " Pourtant t'avertis - je que la version . ou traduction est aujourd'hui le plus fréquent et mieux reçu des estimés poëtes et des doctes lecteurs . ” * In the same year ...
... languages . Sébilet , in his “ Poé- tique " ( 1548 ) , says : " Pourtant t'avertis - je que la version . ou traduction est aujourd'hui le plus fréquent et mieux reçu des estimés poëtes et des doctes lecteurs . ” * In the same year ...
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