But owing partly to Lockhart's relations with Scott, and partly to the need of avoiding anyliterary comparisons, these small, fat duodecimos appeared anonymously.
When my Dove and Sophie Hawthorne can go with me, I shall not be afraid to accept invitations to meet literary lions and lionesses, because then I shall put the above-said redoubtable little personage in the front of the battle.
It seems to them a violation of a sacred confidence, a wanton exposure of a tenderness not intended for the world as a part of its literary diversion.
Both he and the maternal grandfather expressed in verse dislike of war and intolerance, the one with considerable literary skill, the other with a good deal of decent plainness and manly freedom, as his grandson said.
A brilliant literary man of the present day considers that places in the first ranks of literature are reserved for the doctrinally heterodox.
Professor Dilthey has collected many other records of the hallucinatory clearness of the visual imagery of literary artists.
With a just sense of his limitations he undertook to write, not as a literary man, but as an architect.
That criticism as an art is still somewhat behindhand in America seems to be confirmed by comparing French and American literary criticism.
He never attained any literary facility, and was always more successful in conveying his observations by maps, drawings, and conversation than by books.
A literary man to whom he was introduced shortly after his arrival in Bristol spoke of the intellectual character of the young man's face.
Josiah Franklin's judicious criticism led Benjamin to undertake the well-known plan of developing his literary style.
In the last but one decennium of the sixteenth century, the first dramatists arose who pursued fixed literary tendencies.
Hamlet' was composed in the atmosphere of this literary feud, from which we draw confirmatory proof that our theory stands on the solid ground of historical fact.
The perspicacity of Drummond, and the truthful rendering of his impressions, are fully confirmed by Jonson's manner of life and the contents of his literary productions.
He boasts on the stage of being more in the enjoyment of the favour of the great ones than any of his literary contemporaries.
In the literary intercourse with prominent men of her time she appears to have sought consolation and distraction.
When he had realised this ambition, he cheerfully seems to have left the splendour of town life, and to have readily renounced all literary fame; for he did not even care to collect his own works.
When you came to the throne one of our greatest literary men lay bed-ridden, dying quietly of old age.
Even for the sake ofliterary effect, I would not for one moment deceive them.
For three days he put up with this rebuff to his honesty of character and his literary ability; then not finding his lady where he expected her to be, he went and called upon her father.
Are they the men, think you, who will be reckoned a hundred years hence the artistic and literary giants of their day?
The time for the funeral was set for three o’clock, and about a half hour before the literary helpers again came to us in a state of the wildest excitement and terror, tearing their hair, weeping and trembling.
A suitable thanksgiving service was held, and the board of translators and their native literary helpers were presented by the American minister with copies of the book, with very kind remarks on their work.
So I called up Mr. Underwood’s trusted literary assistant, and arranged with him to hire ponies.
This Dialogue and her Letters represent St Catherine's literary work.
My literary taste was tickled by the praise bestowed in the Augustan age on Rhætic grapes by Virgil: Et quo te carmine dicam, Rhætica?
It was not therefore possible that he should have gained a great degree of literary culture.
Both have left behind them records of their lives and literary labours, singularly illustrative of their peculiar differences.
A misprint kills a sensitive author Absolute, peremptory facts are bullies Advised everyliterary man to have a profession.
The debat was a common literary device, the law court presided over by Venus a favourite literary theme.
There can be no plainer commentary on the literary theme of the nun unwillingly professed than these cases of recurring frailty and apostasy.
The evidence for such a study falls into three classes, the purely literary evidence of moralist and story-teller, the general statements of ecclesiastical councils and the exact and specific evidence of the Bishops' Registers.
Those are the words, not of a modern scientist, but of the seventeenth century monk, Jean Mabillon; they sum up his literary profession of faith.
It received, however, a literary expression towards the close of the fourteenth century.
The concentrated bitterness of The Court of Love and the social satire of Lindesay are only a literary expression of the theme treated more lightheartedly in the popular chansons de nonnes.
The literary evidence will be treated more fully in a further chapter and need not detain us here.
It is the historian's business to call in these literarywitnesses to supplement his documents.
I have in mind, particularly, the spread of literary and linguistic study in America during the last few decades, and the lack of a common standard of judgment among those who engage in such study.
Yet the notion that a poem or a speech should possess the organic structure, as it were, of a living creature is basic in the thought of the great literary critics of all time.
One morning, after a literary skirmish in the captain's cabin the overnight, Mr Silva smiled me over to him on his side of the quarter-deck, just as day was breaking.
Authority, masking ill-nature under the guise of quizzing, on the one hand, and literary obstinacy fast resolving itself into deep personal hostility on the other.
We are not well enough acquainted with them to grasp the different periods of their political and social, their artistic and literary development.
The literary historian might as well have attempted to trace the course of her poetry without having read Sophocles, without having heard of the Electra or the Œdipus Rex.
They are separated from it by many things; they have no history, they have neither literary and scientific culture nor anything that deserves the name of art.
The literary part of the performance was indeed sorry stuff,--the main stay and prop of the paper from its very commencement was Seymour, whose drawings however suffered severely at the hands of the engraver and paper maker.
Hayne affair mentioned in our last chapter afforded grist for the kind of mill driven by literaryblacklegs of the class of "Bernard Blackmantle.
Aye, and so he might, honest Rip; but he would set about his task in a very different fashion to Shakespeare or Sir Walter Scott, and I fear too that the literary results and value would be vastly different.
In old and second-hand bookshops, and in booksellers' catalogues, may often be found a book which is gradually becoming a literary rarity.
Busby was a person desirous of achieving literary notoriety at any amount of personal inconvenience.
His literary acquirements, unusual in the time, increased his influence and reputation.
For several months--perhaps for years to come--you should wholly cease from literary labour.
I will ask you plainly and bluntly, would you advise an author to wage war on his literary assailants, or to despise them?
He was disgusted with the littleness of the agents and springs of political life--he had formed a weary contempt for the barrenness of literary reputation.
Accordingly he soon repelled the advances made to him, was reserved and supercilious to fine ladies, refused to be the fashion, and became very unpopular with the literary exclusives.
In his weaker qualities I have seen many which all literary men might incur, without strict watch over themselves; and let me add, also, that his family have great claims on me.
I dare say literary reputation is a fine thing, but I desire some distinction more substantial and worldly.
Maltravers, on the other hand, introduced him to the literary dilettanti, who admire all authors that are not rivals.
This trifle was sent to the Mirror a few days since, and last Saturday it appeared in the Literary Gazette, with the same signature, E.
Little else has been talked of these ten days, in the literary world of London, but the Festival in memory of the birthday of Burns and the visit of the Ettrick Shepherd.
But the contradictions circumstantial appear to (dis)advantage in the Literary Gazette, as will be seen among our quotations.
In conclusion, he drank the health of Mr. Galt, whose literary talents shed a lustre on the west of Scotland, with which he was particularly connected.
In many of the Hamburg Passions the Bible text was thrown away and poems substituted, all of which were of inferiorliterary merit, and some quite contemptible.
It would seem that the very nature of such work precludes all real literary success.
The monastery did not devote itself either to sending out preachers and teachers, or to storing up and cherishing the literary treasures of the ancient world.
No one could have been more unlike his gay pleasure-loving father, or his mild literary grandfather, than the grim emperor who won from posterity the title of Bulgaroktonos, "the Slayer of the Bulgarians.
She displayed her literary tastes in writing religious poetry, which had some merit, according to the critics of the succeeding age.
The fact that two successive emperors devoted themselves to literary work is a sufficient sign that by the end of the ninth century the times of intellectual dearth and destitution which had so long prevailed were now at an end.
This type was extremely common among theliterary and official classes.
A witenagemot, or supreme council, was held here by King Ethelred in the year 866, and Alfred the Great pursued his literary work here by translating the Consolations of Boethius, and in the grounds he had a deer-fold.
Afterwards they were published in book form, entitled The Letters of Junius: in our early days the author of these letters was still unknown, and even at the time of our walk the matter was one of the mysteries of the literary world.
The enthusiasm of Dumas for George Sand was, upon the whole, only a consequence of his literary susceptibility; the enthusiasm of Renan was of a deeper character.
Very much later, in Parisian literary circles where fidelity to a former conception of poetry was maintained, it was said: "Will you please excuse us from reading M.
For what renders a literary production significant, what gives it circulation in space and lasting value in time, is the force with which it is able to present that which is propagated through space and which endures through time.
People compared it with the literary productions of earlier times, and asked themselves if it was poetry.
Whoever is familiar with Renan's literary activity knows how closely he adheres to this thought when he writes.
None of the initiated who have written after Flaubert, and who understood his literary ideal, have been able with clear consciences to make essentially smaller demands upon themselves than he made upon himself.
A good omen for the future works of Ibsen is the fact that, in the same ratio that he becomes modern, his greatness as a literary artist increases.
In Denmark people looked to Norway as the land of literary revival; in Norway all eyes were turned to Denmark as the land of older civilization, and people scarcely noticed the lull in Danish culture.
The psychological analysis has now reached a point from which we can view this poetic mind in the light of the literary consciousness and endeavors of its contemporaries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "literary" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bluestocking; bookish; classical; educated; lettered; literary; pedantic; scholastic
