"Fissiparous" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... characteristics of the pleasure he receives from literature, should not have noticed in this period the fact—beside and outside of the other fact of a provision of delectable novelists—of a great splitting up and (as scientific slang would put it) fissiparous generation of the the classes of novel. It is, indeed, open to the advocates or generic or specific criticism—though I think they cannot possibly maintain their position as to poetry—to urge that a great deal of ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury |
