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Lord Houghton, at the Scott Centenary, said of the world's great litterateurs, that they have seldom left descendants. England has no Shakespeare, no Milton, no Bacon, no Newton, no Pope, no Byron; Italy has no Dante, no Petrarch, no Alfieri, no Ariosto; Germany has no Goethe, no Schiller, no Heine; and France has no Montaigne, no Voltaire, and no Descartes.

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