[76] Republic, book viii.
[77] Outre-Mer. English Translation, 306.
[78] See the final chapter of his French Traits.
[79] Conversation with Eckermann, May 12, 1825.
[80] French Traits, 385, 387, 393.
[81] Poe is the only notable exception that occurs to me.
[82] Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones, ii, 100, 101.
[83] Our most notable group of writers—flourishing at Concord and Boston about 1850—is, of course, connected with the maturing, in partial isolation, of a local type of culture, now disintegrated and dispersed on the wider currents of the time.
[84] Outre-Mer, 25.
[85] In his essay on Balzac.