📗 Excerpt from Introduction A l'Histoire de la Littérature AnglaiseOn a découvert qu'une oeuvre littéraire n'est pas un simple jeu d'imagination, le caprice isolé d'une tête chaude, mais une copie des moeurs environnantes et le signe d'un état d'esprit. On en a conclu qu'on pouvait, d'après les monuments litte raires, retrouver la faggg_ dont les hommes avaient senti et pensé il y a plusieurs siècles. On l'a essayé et on a réussi.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.