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George Saintsbury

English Writer

Born: Oct 23, 1845

Died: Jan 28, 1933

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To pass to the deluge, and beyond it, and to come to close quarters with our proper division, the origin of Romance itself is a very debatable subject, or rather it is a subject which the wiser mind will hardly care to debate much. George Saintsbury

Debate Care Mind Will Our Proper Rather Division Deluge Wiser Come Beyond Pass Quarters Subject Debatable Itself Very Close Romance Which Much Origin Hardly

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. George Saintsbury

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. George Saintsbury

Class First Few Other Side Immense Rank High Would Promote Some More Between Names Dickens Scott Than Which While Them Should Production Novels Illustrated Earlier Second Second-Class

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