"The genius of the French language, descended from……" — Lytton Strachey
"The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint."
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28 Quotes by Lytton Strachey
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Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a…
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If this is dying, I don't think much of it.
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Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
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The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into…
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It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.
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Human beings are too important to be treated as mere symptoms of the past. They have a value which is…
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The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Francis I vanished with…
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Unlike the majority of the writers of his age, La Rochefoucauld was an aristocrat; and this fact gives a peculiar…
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The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.
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How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely…
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Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in…
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English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure…
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