Although Amalia's convent training had greatly restricted her knowledge of literature other than religious, her later years of intimate companionship with her father, and her mother's truly remarkable knowledge of the classics and fearless investigation of the modern thought of her day, had enlarged Amalia's horizon; while her own vivid imagination and her native geniality caused her to lighten always her mother's more somber thought with a delicate and gracious play of fancy that was at once fascinating and delightful.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
In France also the earliest books were addressed to students of the classics, though they were produced on a much more limited scale.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard
That the first large book in Germany was a Bible, the first books in Italy Latin classics, the first produced for the English market one that we must call an historical romance, cannot be regarded as merely insignificant.
"Fine Books"
Alfred W. Pollard