Voltaire in his Essay Sur les inconvéniens attachés à la Littérature (Works, ed. 1819, xliii. 173), after describing all that an author does to win the favour of the critics, continues:'Tous vos soins n'empêchent pas que quelque journaliste ne vous déchire.

Almost all French historians, from Voltaire to Cousin, (St. Aulaire being the chief exception,) speak lightly of the Wars of the Fronde.

Habitand perhaps wish had something to do with itwas too strong, however, and I found myself turning down the Quai Voltaire at the customary hour the next evening.

Next time I shall remember to take Voltaire with me.

Goethe then asked about my progress in French literature, and I told him that I still took up Voltaire from time to time, and that the great talent of this man gave me the purest delight.

121; variety of them to be kept about a man, iii. 193; Voltaire on the rapid sale of books in London, ii. 402, n. 1; willingly, not read, iv.

Fortunately he and his family had escaped to Switzerland, where they persuaded Voltaire of their innocence.

In giving my mite of admiration to the French stage, I am fully aware of its faults, of the long declamation and the fade galanterie that prevailed before Voltaire made the grand reform in that particular: and on this account I prefer Voltaire as a tragedian to Racine and Corneille.

François Marie Arouet de Voltaire After the painting by M. Q. de la Tour, Endoxe Marville Collection, Paris.

A man can be dangerous indeed with twenty pages of Voltaire behind him.

CRÉBILLON, a French dramatist, born at Dijon, bred to the law, devoted to literature and the composition of tragedies, of which he produced several, mostly on classical subjects, such as "Atreus and Thyestes," "Electra," of unequal merit, though at times of great power; he ranked next Voltaire among the dramatists of the time (1674-1762).

My father was reading Voltaire beside a briskly burning fire.

Aurore had promised her aged relative that she would not read Voltaire before the age of thirty; but her literary wanderings soon brought her across the path of Rousseau.

The appearance of Peter the Wild Boy, who was found in the woods of Hamela, in Hanover, living on the bark of trees, leaves, berries, &c. threw Voltaire into transports of joy.