"Gallomania" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Government, the patriotic, conservative spirit was obliged to keep silence; but when the foreign influence spread to the social life of the Court aristocracy, the opposition began to find a literary expression. In the time of Catherine II., when Gallomania was at its height in Court circles, comedies and satirical journals ridiculed those who, "blinded by some externally brilliant gifts of foreigners, not only prefer foreign countries to their native land, but even despise ...
— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace
... countrymen to be collectively superior to that of the whole world, he seldom allows any individual of them to have so large a portion as himself.—Adieu: I have already written enough to convince you I have neither acquired the Gallomania, nor forgotten my friends in England; and I conclude with a wish a propos to my subject—that they may long enjoy the rational liberty they ...
— A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, • An English Lady
... the days of Gottsched, a German leader about 1740, who was a pedant constitutionally insensible to any real merits of French literature, and yet sharing in the Gallomania, the ordinary tenor of composition was such as this: (supposing English words substituted for German:) "I demande with entire empressement, your pardon for having tant soit peu meconnu, or at least egare from your orders, autrefois communicated. Faute d'entendre ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine—Vol. 54, No. 333, July 1843 • Various |
