George Saintsbury
George Saintsbury
George Edward Bateman Saintsbury, was an English writer, literary historian, scholar, critic and wine connoisseur...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 October 1845
childhood early late maria named works
The works of the very beautifully named Regina Maria Roche should probably be read, as they were for generations, in late childhood or early youth.
result
Broadmindedness is the result of flattening highmindedness out
majority reason ifs
Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.
flirting thinking meals
But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older - as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.
oratory literature savages
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.
latin writing men
But 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.
drinking race unbroken
It 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.
names two fiction
One 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.
melancholy century whole
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
missing novelists ordinary
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
humor savages curious
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
dickens earlier few immense production promote rank second side
Between 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.