Excerpt from Colomba: Edited With Notes Grammatical, Etymological, And Explanatory, And A Notice On Mérimée And His Works
Stendhal,* whom he always imitated, and from whom he largely borrowed, without ever succeed ing in attaining, what I value most in Stendhal, his breadth of view and piquancy of Mérimée is a French intellect, but without the French grace. He likes clearness and His imitation is never servile; nay more, it is fully armed, for when he imitates, he does SO with pruning-knife in his Mérimée is a literary roue'. Atheist as people were in the l6th century.
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