Quotes George Saintsbury

Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray ...

But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest e...

But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a r...

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy...

It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic l...

Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary...

One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, fa...

The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence ...

The Odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, ...

The transition state of manners and language cannot be too o...

The works of the very beautifully named Regina Maria Roche s...

To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close q...

Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostili...