Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is independent of any temporal process──which is eternal, and must be felt for its own sake. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar tone to his work. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages. — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally,… — Lytton Strachey Copy Share Image
