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Excerpt from University Work in the Romance Languages: An Address Delivered on the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Johns Hopkins University, February 22, 1891
French manners, language and literature entered Eng land, and soon became a part of cultured life as they had never done before. It is said that drtx made rhyme the vehicle of tragedy partly in imitation of corneille, and more than one writer of prose comedy of manners derived his inspiration from moliere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.