The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

If this is dying, I don't think much of it.

The amateur is very rare in French literature - as rare as he is common in our own.

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.

The old interests of aristocracy - the romance of action, the exalted passions of chivalry and war - faded into the background, and their place was taken by the refined and intimate pursuits of peace and civilization.

There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages.