LA GLOIRE

Page 14. To Biirger is due the crédit of restoring the sonnet to the literature of his country. His sonnets are among the best in his language, and Schiller speaks of them " as models of their kind."

"Visions of glory, spare my aching sight!" — Gray.

Balzac says: "Glory is like the sun, hot and luminous from afar, but when we get near, it is as cold as the peak of an Alp."