Note 583 — Chapter II · MIL-HUIT-CENT-TRENTE.
Reading edition
This contains the admirable, if in more than one sense generous, judgment of Schlegel (Wilhelm), that he a eu l'œil à toutes les grandes choses littéraires, s’il n’a pas toujour rendu justice aux moyennes. Omit grandes in the first clause; substitute it for moyennes and prefix pleine to justice in the second; and the thing becomes a fair verdict on Sainte-Beuve himself.