A General Sketch of European Literature in the Centuries of Romance
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Theology, politics, lay learning, were all included in its ambit, and these, and the last, especially, in the eyes of censors and spies, spread fairly comprehensive 240 EUROPEAN LITERATURE nets. The least originality was unorthodox. It was dangerous to translate the Psalms, to discuss the governance of the State, or even, as Dolet found, to comment on Plato. We are bound to take account of these facts. Students of literature would gladly ignore them, and, as far as possible, we shall do so. But... we cannot do so all the way. They produced two marked effects on literature, neither of which can safely be neglected. The first was the tendency of advanced writers to cultivate an expedient wariness. They went slow, showing obscured lights. They circumnavigated their capes perilous by all kinds of tacks and ambiguity. And the next was the common resort, as prudent as it was polite, to the patronage of princes. A writer was freer behind the shelter of a Court than he was in the shadow of a cloister, still more than in the open market.
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