Biographia Literaria
Montaigne freely borrowed of others, and he has found men willing to borrow of him as freely. We need not wonder at the reputation which he with seeming facility achieved. He was, without being aware of it, the leader of a new school in letters and morals. His book was different from all others which were at that date in the world. It diverted the
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As to the poetical Character itself (I mean that sort of which, if I am any thing, I am a Member; that sort distinguished from the wordsworthian or egotistical sublime; which is a thing per se and stands alone) it is not itself - it has no self - it is every thing and nothing - It has no character - it enjoys light and shade; it lives in gusto, be
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Il devait avoir conscience lui-même de n’avoir que « peu de génie pour la versification » et ce n’est pas par hasard que ses vers — c’est aussi le cas dans les quelques poésies qui nous ont été conservées — sont si bas au-dessous de son niveau. Le vers, et en particulier l’alexandrin, avec sa démarche mesurée et scandée, exige du poète le calme, la
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