But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.
When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same b… - George Saintsbury
When [wines] were good they pleased my sense, cheered my spirits, improved my moral and intellectual powers, besides enabling me to confer the same b…
- George Saintsbury
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 o… - George Saintsbury
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 o…
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… - George Saintsbury
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…
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 … - George Saintsbury
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 …
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it. - George Saintsbury
Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
The Book of History is the Bible of Irony. - George Saintsbury
The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.
The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority. - George Saintsbury
The hardest thing to attain... is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority.
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. - George Saintsbury
But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
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 … - George Saintsbury
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 …
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