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
result
Broadmindedness is the result of flattening highmindedness out
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.
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.
thank-god facts rejoice
Let us also once more rejoice in, and thank God for, the fact that we know nothing about Homer, and practically nothing about Shakespeare.
writing men thinking
We shall not busy ourselves with what men ought to have admired, what they ought to have written, what they ought to have thought, but with what they did think, write, admire.
oratory literature savages
Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.
criticism world endeavour
Criticism is the endeavour to find, to know, to love, to recommend, not only the best, but all the good, that has been known and thought and written in the world.
three
So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.
writing people literature
When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.
romance stories west
The 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.
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.
alcohol soul body
Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.
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.