新精神使夏多布兰德的散文和拉马丁的诗获得生气，但只是精神如此，这两位作家使用的形式仍保留旧传统的许多重要特点，成了旧瓶装新酒。

• The new spirit had animated the prose of Chateaubraind and the poetry of Lamartine; but it was the spirit only; the form of both these writers retained mast of the important characteristics of the old tradition. It was new wine in old bottles.