Note 184 — Chapter IV · THE SATIRIC GROUP
Reading edition
George Saintsbury, A Short History of English Literature. New York, London, 1905, p. 526: “The great essayist who immediately followed him [i.e. Brown], owed more to him than might be imagined, and in not a little of his work, especially in his Amusements, Serious and Comical, which attempt an early ‘London from day to day,’ there is a vividness of manners which anticipates the best of the later novelists.”