Of his works only a few fragments are preserved, hardly more than enough to show that they had little real literary merit.
These letters are, however, obviously forgeries, and possess no literary merit.
Yet, with all the difference in literary merit, the two works show the style of Tacitus at the same stage.
The historical interest of this work is at least as great as that of the books on the Gallic War, but it does not compete with them in literary merit, and contains some positive misstatements.
As has been seen the standard is extremely low, no literary merit or great skill being essential.
No literary merit or great labour is required to be shown.
Tradesmen's catalogues, consisting of lists descriptive or otherwise of the articles in which they deal, have been often attacked as being devoid of literary merit.
In point of literary merit, the half century presents two successive and dissimilar stages, of which the first or opening epoch of the century, embraced in its first thirty years, was by far the most brilliant.
To most critics of the drama "literary merit" is something external, something added to the play, something adjusted to the structure.
They think of literary merit as something upon which they alone are competent to decide, as something to be tried by the touchstones they keep in their studies, under lock and key.
Sidenote: Literary merit not requisite} The doctrine that copyright does not depend on literary merit, was strengthened in a dramatic case in Henderson v.
Sidenote: Originality and merit} The courts are disposed to extend copyright to any work involving intellectual labor or brain skill, without emphasizing originality or literary merit.
Boyvin du Villars, of whom little is known, left voluminous memoirs which have some literary merit.
Some anonymous Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire du XVII'eme Siecle, though evidently a compilation, are not destitute of literary merit.
A second treatise, De l'Homme, which appeared posthumously, is much inferior to De l'Esprit in literary merit.
This romance, although marked by the faults of prolixity and incongruity characteristic of the heroic style, is not without narrative interest or literary merit.
They were modified to meet new tastes, and in the process became superior in literary merit, but inferior in force and interest.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "literary merit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
