"Improvisatore" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Andersen's "Improvisatore," and in reply to some expressed wonder at her reading so many novels she avows herself "the most complete and unscrupulous romance reader" possible; and adds that her love of fiction began with her breath, ...
— The Brownings - Their Life and Art • Lilian Whiting
... no novel, but a poetical essay, fantastically conceived and executed with the sans gene of an improvisatore. For those who admire the genius of George Sand its interest as a psychological revelation remains unabated. Into Lelia, she owns, she put more of her real self than into any other of her books—of herself, that is, and her state of mind at the dawn ...
— Famous Women: George Sand • Bertha Thomas |
