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Example sentences for "literary taste"

  • But not only did they owe to Greece the principles of literary taste; their earliest poet was one of that nation.

  • After the death of the king, she gathered a distinguished circle round herself, combining the elegances of high life with the cultivation of literary taste.

  • Whatever may have been their utility in the advancement of the language and the cultivation of literary taste, these institutions extended a legal sanction to vice, and inculcated maxims of shameful profligacy.

  • It is also fatal to the formation of literary taste.

  • Many people, if not most, look on literary taste as an elegant accomplishment, by acquiring which they will complete themselves, and make themselves finally fit as members of a correct society.

  • It is well to remind ourselves that literature is first and last a means of life, and that the enterprise of forming one's literary taste is an enterprise of learning how best to use this means of life.

  • The leisure of later years might be portioned out between social duty, the pleasures or the cares of a rural estate, and the cultivation of literary taste by reading and imitation of the great masters.

  • The archaistic fashion in literary taste, which had begun in the first century, and which culminated in Hadrian's reign, favoured and harmonised with a scrupulous observance of ancient forms in religion.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    adult life; attempt was; good chap; gray hair; lined stanzas; literary club; literary composition; literary criticism; literary education; literary form; literary history; literary language; literary life; literary merit; literary production; literary property; literary pursuits; literary study; literary taste; literary works; moved forward; never fails; shall shew; she observed; sometimes reddish; that church