But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy. - "George Saintsbury"

But the eighteenth century, on the whole, loathed melancholy.
George Saintsbury

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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.
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But even gold is not everything: and only a fanatic, and a rather foolish fanatic, would say that this style of fiction summed up and exhausted all the good that fiction could give and do.
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