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Excerpt from Selections From Boileau: Edited With an Introduction and Notes
And the significance and extreme importance of Boileau con sists in this very fact, that in his works, few as they are, we find summed up the very essence of the spirit which has made the names of Corneille and Racine and Moliere immortal. What these men did in practice, he expounds in theory.
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