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.

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.

George Saintsbury

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Between Scott on the earlier side and di..ens and Thackeray on the other, there was an immense production of novels, illustrated by not a few names which should rank high in the second class, while some would promote more than one of them to the first.

George Saintsbury

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