But at the time when he wrote, englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in french or latin — George Saintsbury
Between scott on the earlier side and dickens and thackeray on the other, there was an — George Saintsbury
But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic — George Saintsbury
Miss austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. — George Saintsbury
It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by the strongest — George Saintsbury
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history is the lateness — George Saintsbury
To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division — George Saintsbury
The odyssey is, indeed, one of the greatest of all stories, it is the original romance — George Saintsbury
The italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as chaucer’s time: — George Saintsbury