Le Bel Age

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    Cependant, ce fut jadis un bel homme, de haute taille.
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)

    Shakespeare, with an improved education and in a more enlightened age, might easily have attained the purity and correction of Racine; but nothing leads one to suppose that Racine in a barbarous age would have attained the grandeur, force and nature of Shakespeare.
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)