"But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen,……" — George Saintsbury
"But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time."
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George Saintsbury
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15 Quotes by George Saintsbury
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Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing…
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It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and…
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When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me…
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One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western…
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But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
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The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were…
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But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style…
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Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
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To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin…
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The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both…
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The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but…
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Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
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