What did George Saintsbury mean by: But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. - George Saintsbury Copy
+ Nothing is more curious than the almost savage hostility that Humour excites in those who lack it. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saintsbury, Curious, Humor, Savages, 0 - George Saintsbury
+ I do not think anything serious should be done after dinner, as nothing should be before breakfast. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saintsbury, Cooking, Food, 0 - George Saintsbury
+ The hardest thing to attain… is the appreciation of difference without insisting on superiority. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saintsbury, Appreciate, Difference, Hardest, 0 - George Saintsbury
+ So, then, there abide these three, Aristotle, Longinus, and Coleridge. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saintsbury, 0 - George Saintsbury
+ Miss Austen had shown the infinite possibilities of ordinary and present things for the novelist. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saintsbury, Missing, Novelists, Ordinary, 0 - George Saintsbury
+ Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right. Feraz Zeid, January 16, 2024January 16, 2024, George Saintsbury, Majority, 0 - George Saintsbury
Everything tender and melancholy – as life is sometimes, just for one moment. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century. - William Romaine Clergyman · England
Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave. Explain - Friedrich Nietzsche Philosopher · Germany
Climate change is the greatest threat to human rights in the 21st century. - Mary Robinson Politician · Ireland
Posterity–the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism–grows ever harder to conceive. - Mason Cooley Professor · USA
The value of ourselves is but the value of our melancholy and our disquiet. - Maurice Maeterlinck Playwright · Belgium
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. - Maurice Merleau-Ponty Philosopher · France
