William Mason, the friend and biographer of Gray, has just been published, and the critics seem to regard it as more entertaining than any previous collection of the letters of the noble and celebrated author.
As to the intervals between these three solemn events, the biographer says little, and we suppose they are filled with exemplary virtues and the accomplishment of duties which human and divine law imposes upon the woman.
Nevertheless, as his biographer demonstrates, he always contrived to make his patriotism tributary to the increase of his immense wealth.
His biographer accounts for this conduct, repeated on two subsequent visitations of that terrible fever, by supposing that he was naturally benevolent, but that his early trials had sealed up the fountains of his human feeling.
If it could be withheld, and the act decently reconciled to the conscience of a biographer professing to be honest and candid, it should never see the light in these pages.
To a campaign biographer who applied for particulars of his early history, he replied that they could be of no interest; that they were but "The short and simple annals of the poor.
As to Prometheus Unbound his biographer observes: [Footnote: Dowden, ib.
Condorcet was the friend and biographer of Turgot, and it was not unfitting that he should resume the design of a history of civilisation, in the light of the idea of Progress, for which Turgot had only left luminous suggestions.
The biographer of Nelson devotes a whole conversation to the subject of "steam and war.
Their influence in promoting a belief in Progress is vouched for by Condorcet, the friend and biographer of Turgot.
The Aretine biographer is followed in this particular by Morelli, usually so eagle-eyed, so little bound by tradition in tracing the beginnings of a great painter.
In Mr. Owens Captain Glazier has found a biographer who has done him justice, and who has made a book that will be widely read.
He has found an appreciative biographer in Mr. Owens, whose work will more especially interest soldiers and those fond of reading of adventure.
One of the things that is most difficult to forgive a biographer is the wealth of sordid details they give us about our gods.
Lockhart, Scott’s biographerand son-in-law, was one of the party.
Trees of his planting, his biographer says, writing in the beginning of this century, still grow upon the banks of the little stream which runs by the beautiful ruins of Dunblane, and which watered his mother's fields.
Her biographer tells us naïvely, with no sense that the result was not one to be proud of, that the fame of her bounty and kindness brought the poor in crowds to every place where she was.
Douglas remarked truly to his biographer that "it was evident during all the proceedings that the Republicans were as anxious to keep the Kansas question open as the Democrats were to close it, in view of the approaching presidential election.
One admiring biographer declares that he yelled to the mob as a parting valediction, "Abolitionists of Chicago, it is now Sunday morning.
That school needs a competent biographerwho will do for it what M.
While a teacher in Le Mans' cathedral school, he accompanied Bishop Hoël on his travels, and knew well Cluny and its great abbot Hugues, whose biographer he became.
I agree with him in thinking that no previous biographer of Crabbe has been aware of its existence.
We have the authority of Crabbe's son and biographer for saying that he never really cared for the profession he had adopted.
The biographer might have remarked as no less strange that the success of The Village failed, for the moment at least, to convince Crabbe where his true strength lay.
The two chief accounts, in Zosimus and the biographer of Aurelian, agree in all essentials.
Full justice has been done to a character and a career somewhat resembling those of John Newton, by his patient and able biographer the Rev.
To produce a work not altogether unworthy the hero whose life it records, is the utmost that his present biographer can reasonably hope to accomplish.
An esteemed Protestant biographer of Luther is, however, at pains to point out, quite rightly, that the Diet could “not do otherwise than condemn Luther.
Their life as told by their biographer Mrs Gaskell is as interesting as any novel.
He set up glass works at Lambeth the productions of which were praised by Evelyn; and he spent much money, according to his biographer Brian Fairfax, in building insanae substructions.
Cooper always said, and truly, that it was to his countrymen alone that he owed his first success, and his biographer concedes that the success of the Spy was determined before the opinion of Europe was known.
In 1811 Percy Bysshe Shelley then a young man lived hereabouts attracted to the street by Hogg his biographer who liked it because of its name which reminded him of "Thaddeus of Warsaw" and the cause of freedom.
Facing Lincoln's Inn Fields on the west side is still to be seen a stone built house numbered 58, with Doric columns, quite grimy in appearance, where once lived John Forster the biographer of Dickens.
A biographer writing now must try to explain why he has been so lightly esteemed by that posterity to which they confidently committed his fame.
Of course, in all these books the biographer and critic feels, as Englishman, obliged to concede much to his English audience, in the way of condemning impurities in his authors.
The man of fifty-four, become the biographer of his own youth, finds no loathness of self-respect to prevent his detailing the absurd adventures with which he diverted himself on the way.
Never more, we hope and venture to believe, will any thoughtless biographer impute to Shakspeare the asinine doggerel with which the uncritical blundering of his earliest biographer has caused his name to be dishonored.
The same biographer tells us, what is well worth remembering, that 'No man was ever better served than Nelson by the inspiration of the moment; no man ever counted on it less.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "biographer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: annalist; chronicler; diarist
