[311]. Marmontel. Jean François Marmontel (1723–1799), author of the Contes Moraux (1761).
Crebillon. Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon (1674–1762), dramatic poet.
Marivaux. Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (1688–1763), author of Marianne (1731–1741), a romance and many comedies. Voltaire said he knew all the bye-paths of the human heart, but not the highway.
La Harpe. Jean François de la Harpe (1739–1803), whose works have acted as a standard of literary criticism.
To this obscure and wild. Paradise Lost, XI. 284.
On that fair fountain. Hamlet, III. 4.
Note. A splendid edition of Goldsmith. Washington Irving edited a 4–volume edition of The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith in 1825 (Paris).
[312]. The proper study of the French. ‘The proper study of mankind is man,’ Pope’s Essay on Man, Ep. II.
St. Evremont. Charles Marguetel de Saint-Denis Seigneur de Saint-Evremond (1613–1703), one of the most brilliant of French satirists. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
[312]. Note. What’s he that wishes for more men from England. King Henry V., IV. 3.