He represents them as overheated attempts at literature, as dripping with a kind of excess, romantic excess, as essentially unable to do more than repeat a tradition.

他将这些炙热的情感放到文学里，流露出过度的浪漫，重复传统，无法超越。

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You can be a product of the Enlightenment, with a faith in reason, and not become a Romantic who begins to believe in the possibilities of man, or even the perfectibility of man.

你是启蒙运动的产物,带着对理智的信心,而不是相信一个,相信人类无所不能,甚至人的完善性的浪漫主义者

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