George Saintsbury - But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote onl...

George Saintsbury Zitate

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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Deutsche Übersetzung

Zu der Zeit, als er schrieb, schrieben Engländer mit den seltensten Ausnahmen nur in Französisch oder Latein; und als sie anfingen, auf Englisch zu schreiben, wurde ein Mann von Genie, um ihn zu deuten und zu verbessern, lange Zeit nicht gefunden.

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