des années entières^ ïox pendant des ày'c

1. 36. la bizarrerie dans ses peintures. The French classical school could notunderstand the greacness of Milton'spoem, and Boileau saw in it {Art poétique^ Chant m.) nothing but

"Le diable toujours hurlant contre les deux."

A reaction, however, took place about the end of the last century, and the Abbe Delille's diluted translation of Paradise Lost (1804) cornes third on a list where \ve find already the names of Dupré de Saint-Maur (1729) and Louis Racine (1753). AL de Châteaubriand's prose version appeared in 1836. See on Milton appreciated by Frenchmen of the présent time M. Taine's Histoire de la littérature anglaise^ and especially M. Vinet's Études snr la littérature française au dix-neuvième siècle, vol. I. pp. 500 — 574.

son paradis des sots.

"...ail thèse upwhirl'd aloft Fly o'er the backside of the world far ofif Into a limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of fools." III. 493 — 496.

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