"The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise……" — George Saintsbury
"The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth."
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George Saintsbury
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15 Quotes by George Saintsbury
George Saintsbury has 15 quotes on this site.
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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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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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More Atmosphere Quotes
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
— David Attenborough
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
— Walter Bagehot
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In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in…
— Charles Baudelaire
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live…
— Alain de Botton
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes.…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational…
— Madeleine Albright
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
— Samuel Butler
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The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long.…
— Alexis Carrel
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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every…
— Winston Churchill
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