“The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.Quote by George SaintsburyTopics: Quotes about George SaintsburyShare on:FacebookPinterestWhatsApp
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in...#George Saintsbury
It is the unbroken testimony of all history that alcoholic liquors have been used by...#George Saintsbury
Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.#George Saintsbury
Between Scott on the earlier side and Dickens and Thackeray on the other, there was...#George Saintsbury
One of the best known, and one of the least intelligible, facts of literary history...#George Saintsbury
But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic,...#George Saintsbury
The Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time:...#George Saintsbury
