“Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.Quote by George SaintsburyTopics: Quotes about George SaintsburyShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time:...#George Saintsbury
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history...#George Saintsbury
Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was...#George Saintsbury
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in...#George Saintsbury
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this...#George Saintsbury
But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic,...#George Saintsbury
