A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe, from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 3 (of 3), Modern criticism

by George Saintsbury

[725]. P. 99.

[726]. He had earlier said that Shakespeare and Molière did just the reverse.

[727]. P. 102.

[728]. P. 110.

[729]. P. 161.

[730]. I could make this point even clearer by putting together and enlarging upon his Shakespearian criticism: but this would take too much room, and it has been done in sample already. The English reader will find the chief texts collected in the first sixty pages of Mr Ronnfeldt’s book, cited above.

[731]. ii. 10 sq.

[732]. P. 184 sq.

[733]. I do not forget his reviews of Don Juan, Manfred, and Cain: nor the rather astonishing attribution to Don Juan itself of being the first book to supply English with “a polished comic language.”

[734]. iii. 40.