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His son Henry, in common with most of his author's jeunes premiers, has been similarly objected to as colourless.

From The English Novel by Saintsbury, George

While, though Scott's jeunes premiers are not, as he himself well knew and frankly confessed, his greatest triumphs, he has never given us anything of the kind so personally impersonal as Phœbus de Chateaupers.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George