Frases de George Saintsbury

George Edward Bateman Saintsbury , foi um escritor e crítico literário inglês.

✵ 23. Outubro 1845 – 28. Janeiro 1933
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George Saintsbury: Frases em inglês

“So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge.”

George Saintsbury

Vol. 3, p. 231
A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts to the Present Day

“Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.”

George Saintsbury

Vol. 1, p. 203
A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts to the Present Day

“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.”

George Saintsbury

Vol. 3, p. 611
A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts to the Present Day

“Historians may lie, but History cannot.”

George Saintsbury

Fonte: A Last Vintage, p. 172.

“The Book of History is the Bible of Irony.”

George Saintsbury

George Saintsbury: The Memorial Volume (London: Methuen, 1946) p. 120.