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Brief about George Saintsbury: By info that we know George Saintsbury was born at 1970-01-01. And also George Saintsbury is English Writer.
Some George Saintsbury's quotes. Goto "George Saintsbury's quotation" section for more.But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
Tags: Century, Melancholy, WholeMiss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
Tags: Miss, Ordinary, PresentBetween Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.
Tags: Between, Few, WhileBut 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.
Tags: Him, Time, WriteBut even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.
Tags: Give, Good, RatherIt is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest, wisest, handsomest, and in every way best races of all times.
Tags: Best, History, UsedOne of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness, in Western European Literature at any rate, of prose fiction, and the comparative absence, in the two great classical languages, of what we call by that name.
Tags: Best, Great, HistoryThe 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.
Tags: Growth, Influence, TimeThe Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance of the West; but the Iliad, though a magnificent poem, is not much of a story.
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