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When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same benefits…

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Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.
It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every…
When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer…
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature…
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet…
But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction…
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance…
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving…
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began…
The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad,…

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When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer… — George Saintsbury
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