school-following

Updated: May 22, 2025

Once more we find the notes of uncertainty, of straying into paths, not always quite blind-alleys, but bye-paths certainly, the presence of isolated burst and flash, of effort unsuccessful or unequal as a whole. But here we find, what in the earlier chapter or section we do not find, distinct imitativeness and positive school-following.

George Saintsbury - A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895)