"But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed……" — George Saintsbury
"But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy."
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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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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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But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when…
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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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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is…
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit…
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
— Emilie Autumn
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the…
— Lord Acton
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;…
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
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