Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist.
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 SaintsburyNothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it.
George Saintsbury