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Updated: May 16, 2025
He was early struck with the beauty of the Greek writers and more especially the Greek tragedians. He wandered in the woods with Sophocles and Euripides in his hands, and many years after could recite their chief plays from memory. He got hold of the Greek romance of Theogines and Chariclea, but the priests would not tolerate such reading and committed the volume to the flames.
A Parisian is all art and cares nothing for nature. He prefers fine buildings and paintings to fields, mountains, and majestic rivers. Racine wrote a poem entitled "The Bath of Venus," and began a play upon the Greek one of Theogines and Chariclea, which had delighted him so much when he was young. He returned to Paris somewhat discouraged, after an absence of only three months.
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