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Lytton Strachey

Giles Lytton Strachey (/ˈdʒaɪlz ˈlɪtən ˈstreɪtʃi/; 1 March 1880 – 21 January 1932) was a British writer and critic.

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When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

Flower, Government, Maturity, Nation, Reins, Splendid

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist.

Besides, Obvious, Poetic, Powers, Psychologist, Writer

Discretion is not the better part of biography.

Biographies, Biography, Discretion, Part

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

Astonishing, Creation Of Man, Man, Men, Perhaps, Writing

In pure literature, the writers of the eighteenth century achieved, indeed, many triumphs; but their great, their peculiar, triumphs were in the domain of thought.

Eighteenth, Literature, Peculiar, Pure, Thought, Triumph

During this earlier period of his activity Voltaire seems to have been trying - half unconsciously, perhaps - to discover and to express the fundamental quality of his genius.

Fundamental, Genius, Quality, Trying, Voltaire

English dramatic literature is, of course, dominated by Shakespeare; and it is almost inevitable that an English reader should measure the value of other poetic drama by the standards which Shakespeare has already implanted in his mind.

Already, Course, Dominated, Drama, Literature, Mind

It is probably always disastrous not to be a poet.

Disastrous, Poet, Probably

When the French nation gradually came into existence among the ruins of the Roman civilization in Gaul, a new language was at the same time slowly evolved.

Civilization, Gaul, Language, Ruins, Same, Time

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.

Deeply, Impregnated, Past, Style, Writing

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.

Contrary, French, Latin, Simplicity, Unity

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

Dubious, Evil, Good, Hygiene, Literature

With a very few exceptions, every word in the French vocabulary comes straight from the Latin.

Exception, French, Latin, Straight, Vocabulary

Though, with the ascendancy of Louis, the political power of the nobles finally came to an end, France remained, in the whole complexion of her social life, completely aristocratic.

Advertising, Complexion, France, Political, Whole

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

Age, Ages, Atmosphere, Dark, Middle

It is perhaps as difficult to write a good life as to live one.

Difficult, Good, Good Life, Life, Writing

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

Deal, Great Men, Kind, Kinds, Life, Love

Englishmen have always loved Moliere.

Englishmen, Loved, Moliere

In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.

Dante, France, Kind, Literature, Spain

In sheer genius Pascal ranks among the very greatest writers who have lived upon this earth. And his genius was not simply artistic; it displayed itself no less in his character and in the quality of his thought.

Character, Genius, Pascal, Quality, Sheer

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