Saturday, May the 26th, 2012
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His students realised that they had a legend on their hands, and made the most of it. Dozens of stories circulated about his rumbustious asides, his impossible handwriting, the convolutions of his syntax.*
* In the Saintsbury Memorial Volume a former student recalls learning a specimen sentence by heart: ‘But while none, save these, of men living, had done, or could have done, such things, there was much here which—whether either could have done it or not—neither had done.’
George Saintsbury (1845–1933) recalled in The Rise And Fall Of The Man Of Letters by John Gross (1969)