Voltaire on Shakespeare

[Anonymous No.14180357]

"He was a savage [...] who had some imagination. He has written many happy lines; but his pieces can please only at London and in Canada. It is not a good sign for the taste of a nation when that which it admires meets with favor only at home."

[Anonymous No.14180383]

>>14180357
>Shakespeare was savage

[Anonymous No.14181451]

Voltaire was the most common place fellow with no spirit. He is no better than the journalists in some rag's opinions column. It amazes me how he is considered a classic.

[Anonymous No.14181588]

>>14181451
I wish we could just switch to Diderot-posting.

[Anonymous No.14181638]

>>14181451
It's no surprise. The ideal of the intellectual in the France of his era was the worldly, witty salon dilletant, men (and women) of taste and fashion. It's a foundation of the French character. The blithe breadth of knowledge and smug persistence in the safety of such an intellectual ideal--one that persists into the age of those post-modern intellectuals we hear so much about on this board. From first to last, all dabblers in and mosaicists of obscure knowledge, all tossed off effortlessly like a tossed cashmere scarf with the flourish of a wrist made limp by the weight of a Gauloises double. That is to say, they're shallow cosmopolitan faggots who love to wallow in it.

[Anonymous No.14181655]

>>14181638
Jbaise la france

[Anonymous No.14181801]

>>14180357
>Iamsilly.jpg
Every single book Voltaire ever wrote.

[Anonymous No.14181832]

>>14180357
>Voltaire

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