[428] Ibid. i. 156.

[429] Ibid. i. 631 sq.

[430] These epics have been treated at length by Duchesne, Histoire des Poèmes Épiques français du XVII Siècle, Paris, 1870.

[431] Lettres, i. 269, 424. On the theories of Heinsius, see Zerbst, Ein Vorläufer Lessings in der Aristotelesinterpretation, Jena, 1887.

[432] Discoveries, p. 80.

[433] Art Poét. i. 37.

[434] Cf. Brunetière, Études Critiques, iv. 136; and Krantz, p. 93 sq.

[435] Art Poét. i. 48.

[436] Reported by J. B. Rousseau, in a letter to Brossette, July 21, 1715.