Help with a quote

Tue Apr 19 17:39:10 UTC 2005

It's from "Selected Passages," Ch. 31, on poetry after Derzhavin.

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A. Tosi wrote:

> Dear all - I'm trying to re-trace a quote - does anybody know where
> Gogol' wrote this?
> 'When our poetry left the church, it suddenly found itself at a ball...
> The Russian language acquired a freedom and adroitness at flying from
> subject to subject..'
> Many thanks!
> Alessandra Tosi (Cambridge, UK)
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