[693]. Œuvres Complètes, 7 vols., Paris 1819; Éléments[Éléments] de Littérature by themselves, 3 vols. in the Didot Collection.
[694]. El. de Litt., article Poésie.
[695]. Ibid., art. Anacréontique.
[696]. The enemy will perhaps say, parodying Hegel: “With this historian of criticism, anybody is a critic who does not believe in Boileau.” 'A will have a little galled me: but not seriously.
[697]. I use this word not as synonymous with “methodical,” but as contrasting the book with fragmentary commentaries like those of La Monnoye and Le Duchat.
[698]. These will be found in vol. vii. of ed. cit.
[699]. M. Texte must have forgotten these remarkable passages, or perhaps not have known them, when in M. Petit de Julleville’s large History (vi. 754) he wrote that La Place’s version could only confirm readers in the idea that Shakespeare was a chaos of monstrosity and triviality. Evidently it had quite a different effect on Marmontel.
[700]. Under the head Marotique.
[701]. L’emphatique Thomas, as he is duly called in that traditional distribution of epithets which is so dear to the French mind, and which helps to explain why it is always, in its depths, neo-classic.
[702]. 18 vols. (Paris, 1825 sq.)