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Example sentences for "literary life"

  • It was the turning point in Carlyle's literary life.

  • On his return he settled down to a literary life, and, notwithstanding narrow means and want of appreciation, became a poet by profession.

  • Monsieur Jules Sandeau had passed through the thorny paths, the steppes, and the waste frontiers of literary life in Paris, without losing his honor, but without retaining a particle of illusion.

  • It exhibits in full light a good many scenes of literary life in Paris.

  • You may now see the various sorts of seductions which assailed me during this short and brilliant period of my literary life.

  • In this brief record of my literary life, I ought not to ignore sundry true and constant book-friends known to me only by correspondence, and that in some cases through many years.

  • Literary life, at its best, is a desperate play, but it is with guineas, and not with coppers, to all who truly play it.

  • But my object in writing this work is less to satisfy sterile revenge than to exhibit to you a corner of literary life in Paris in the nineteenth century.

  • In his apostolic view, genius alone consecrated literature, and made a literary life sacred.

  • It was the “Open Sesame” of my literary life.

  • In my sixty years of literary life, I have known nearly every writer of note in our country.

  • My literary life," he observes almost sadly as he reviews his Venetian period, "almost without my willing it, had taken the course of critical observance of books and men in their actuality.

  • V 1871 was the culminating year of Whitman's literary life.

  • And with the comprehension of the conditions of literary life in Paris, she understood that the struggle had been too much for Lucien's strength.

  • But what is a literary life but a periodical recurrence of the impossible?

  • When he first came to Paris he fell under the influence of an unprincipled young fellow, and was dazzled by his companion's adroitness and experience in the difficulties of a literary life.

  • Perhaps I may be thought to appreciate this merit too highly; but you have seen what I have said in defence of this in the "Literary Life.

  • In a Literary Life of himself, this short memorial is all that Coleridge gives of his happy days at college.

  • Settling in Berkshire he adopted a literary life, and was a prolific author, writing largely for periodicals.

  • So ended this formidable inquisition, the latter part of which alone requires explanation, and at the same time entitles the anecdote to a place in my literary life.

  • But as it is impossible to have known poor deluded Stockdale, and not to have laughed at him more than to have wept for him--so the catastrophe of this author's literary life is as finely in character as all the acts.

  • I will here notice a characteristic incident in Hill's literary life, of which the boldness and the egotism is scarcely paralleled, even by Orator Henley.

  • These laborious authors have commenced their literary life with a glowing ardour, though the feelings of genius have been obstructed by those numerous causes which occur too frequently in the life of a literary man.

  • A work professing to be the Recollections of a Literary Life, and that literary life Miss Mitford's, could not fail to attract us.

  • Recollections of a Literary Life; or, Books, Places, and People.

  • With the publication of the "Sartor Resartus" papers, the third period of Mr. Carlyle's literary life may be said to begin.

  • All these things are drawbacks to a literary life, that we here in America know little of.

  • Still this is not absolutely essential to a literary life.


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