Source: The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard (1927), p. 170.
“Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.”
Vol. 1, p. 203
A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts to the Present Day
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
George Saintsbury 14
British literary critic 1845–1933Related quotes
“All that is not prose is verse; and all that is not verse is prose.”
Tout ce qui n'est point prose, est vers; et tout ce qui n'est point vers, est prose.
Act II, sc. iv
Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (1670)
Source: 1950s–1960s, The Linguistic Sciences and Language Teaching, 1964, p. 1.
“Literature is analysis after the event.”
Quoted in Children of Albion: Poetry of the Underground in Britain, ed. Michael Horovitz (1969): Afterwords, section 2
1790s, Goya's announcement about 'Los Caprichos', 6 Febr. 1799
“All savageness is a sign of weakness.”
Omnis enim ex infirmitate feritas est.
De Vita Beata (On the Happy Life): cap. 3, line 4
Alternate translation: All cruelty springs from weakness. (translator unknown)
As quoted in Caxtoniana: A Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners (1864), Harper & brothers, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, p. 174 (in the essay The Sympathetic Temperment).
Moral Essays
Henry Purcell, Edward Taylor (1843) in "Introduction" to, King Arthur: an opera in 5 acts, written by John Dryden. p. 3; Introduction; Cited in: James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch (1852), Fraser's Magazine, Vol. 45, p. 198
“Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.”
"Poetry and Literature" (1941), as translated in Selected Writings (1957).
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 154