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• He turned from ideals which seemed spurious to reason and to nature; he had read widely in Latin literature, and found much that suited his mood and mind in Boethius' De Consolatione Philosophiζ and in the De Planctu Naturζ of the "universal doctor" of the twelfth century, Alain de Lille, from each of which he conveyed freely into his poem. —  A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.
• The two have come down to us very much as Chaucer has come down in English literature--as a "well undefiled." —  The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I
• He also read widely in English literature, and while in his seventeenth year produced what may fairly be called the first real poem written in America, "Thanatopsis," a wonderful achievement for a youth of that age. —  American Men of Mind
• The vivid pictures of a leading jurisconsult's daily practice which abound in Latin literature--the clients from the country flocking to his antechamber in the early morning, and the students standing round with their note-books to record the great lawyer's replies--are seldom or never identified at any given period with more than one or two conspicuous names. —  Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society
• To understand the march of feeling in French literature, and to measure the growth and expansion in criticism, we need only compare Diderot's eloge on Richardson with Fontenelle's éloge on Dangeau or Leibnitz. —  Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II.

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