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Harry Redman. 9 Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet A lexandre Rodolphe Vinet ( 1797-1847 ) was born in Crassier , in Switzerland . The family had been French Protestant and had settled in Switzerland two generations earlier . As one writer has ...
Harry Redman. 9 Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet A lexandre Rodolphe Vinet ( 1797-1847 ) was born in Crassier , in Switzerland . The family had been French Protestant and had settled in Switzerland two generations earlier . As one writer has ...
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... Vinet knew English quite well . Going into the intricacies involved , he awarded the translator , with some reservations , rather high marks for his achievement . Vinet early on reminded his readers that the poet had been translated ...
... Vinet knew English quite well . Going into the intricacies involved , he awarded the translator , with some reservations , rather high marks for his achievement . Vinet early on reminded his readers that the poet had been translated ...
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... ( Vinet , 461–62 ) . Vinet describes this as an enormous undertaking . In the hands of wise men , he says , the result would have been metaphysical . In audacious hands it would have been tasteless and farfetched . To make Paradise Lost ...
... ( Vinet , 461–62 ) . Vinet describes this as an enormous undertaking . In the hands of wise men , he says , the result would have been metaphysical . In audacious hands it would have been tasteless and farfetched . To make Paradise Lost ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Abel François Villemain | 27 |
François René de Chateaubriand | 48 |
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