Alcoholic drinks, rightly used, are good for body and soul alike, but as a restorative of both there is nothing like brandy.
George SaintsburyThe Italian prose tale had begun to exercise that influence as early as Chaucer's time: but circumstances and atmosphere were as yet unfavourable for its growth.
George SaintsburyThe 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 much of a story.
George SaintsburyMiss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
George Saintsbury