Excerpt from OEuvres de Monsieur Houdar Da la Motte, l'un des Quarante de l'Acad???mie Fran???oise, Vol. 3 Il y a l??? fans doute, pour M???. Dacier quel que apparence de pr???fomption. Un Poete de deux jours interroger Homere confacr??? par une r???putation de trois mille ans; le forcer ??? m'avoiier fes foiblefl'es me flat ter de les corriger! Cela ell violent; je ne fuis point furpris que le z???le d'une In terpr???te d'homere s'en foit d'abord fcan dalif???. Ajoutez qu'elle a v??? ??? la t???te de mon Livre une ...
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Excerpt from OEuvres de Monsieur Houdar Da la Motte, l'un des Quarante de l'Acad???mie Fran???oise, Vol. 3 Il y a l??? fans doute, pour M???. Dacier quel que apparence de pr???fomption. Un Poete de deux jours interroger Homere confacr??? par une r???putation de trois mille ans; le forcer ??? m'avoiier fes foiblefl'es me flat ter de les corriger! Cela ell violent; je ne fuis point furpris que le z???le d'une In terpr???te d'homere s'en foit d'abord fcan dalif???. Ajoutez qu'elle a v??? ??? la t???te de mon Livre une Eliampe o??? Homerelui m???me conduit par Mercure me met fa lyre entre les mains. La profanation ell encore plus fe???fible car, fans vouloir citer Horace, la repr???fentation des choles frap pe bien plus que le fimple r???cit. Sur cette apparence M???. Dacier s'efl h???t???e de con clure que j'???tois coupable de cet orgueil plein d'envie de malignit??? qu'elle d???te lle fur la parole d'un fort honnete Ancien. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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