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
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.
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.