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Example sentences for "great literary"

  • The whole of this period was one of great literary activity, especially in the department of poetry.

  • It is a great literary curiosity, and its length may be excused for several remarkable points.

  • In theology the chief name of great literary eminence in the earlier part of the century is that of Lamennais, of whom more presently, in the later, that of Renan again.

  • As a great literary creator, George Eliot holds a singular position in reference to religious beliefs.

  • If a great thinker, she is still more truly a great literary artist; and such is the largeness and gracious power of her genius that those who do not love her speculations will be drawn to her in spite of all objections.

  • This was the smallest part of a great literary baggage of very unequal value.

  • Hartley might have been a great literary historian.

  • What is of great literary importance is the fact that it is in France that the story receives its principal development, and that it makes its home.

  • The Institution itself is beyond all question the first serious work of great literary merit, not historical, in the history of French prose.

  • But with few exceptions (those of Madame de Remusat are perhaps the principal) none of these memoirs are of great literary importance or interest.

  • The period has been one of great literary activity, effort and ambition, but it affects one by its mass rather than its details; it presents few eminent names.

  • A definite period in history, distinguished by some special characteristic, such as great literary activity, is generally styled, with some appropriate epithet, an age.

  • Almon's works, most of which appeared anonymously, have no great literary merit, but they are of very considerable value to the student of the political history of the period.

  • If these things do not mean a great literary centre, it would be hard to say what does; and I am not going to try for a reason against such facts.

  • As a great literary craftsman, he continues to teach others.

  • Poe was a great literary artist, who thought that the creation of beauty was the object of every form of the highest art.

  • Men without literary faculty might no doubt have gone wrong; but these were men of great literary faculty, whose chief liabilities to error were guarded against precisely by the very conditions in which they found their work.

  • It is in fact a not unskilful working up of some well-tried theatrical motives, but has no great literary merit.

  • He was a person of no great literary power, and chiefly noteworthy because of his long life after contributing to Tottel's Miscellany, which makes him a link between the old literature and the new.

  • It was a battle of wits, a great literary duel.

  • A third time he made a great literary stroke, gave utterance, in yet another form, to his faith that the national idea was the one constant issue for which he had asked his countrymen, and would continue to ask them, to die.

  • It was art Lincoln the artist, who had slowly developed a great literary faculty, had chanced after so many rebuffs on good fortune.

  • Such have been the friendships of great literary characters; but too true it is, that they have not always contributed thus largely to their mutual happiness.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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