Side by side with the exaggerated admiration with which our professional censors greet the crowd of new-comers, it is instructive to note the contempt into which some of our old gods have fallen.
He started as a mere professional fun-maker, and he has not done with fun-making even yet, but he has developed in the course of years into a rough and ready philosopher, and he has written two books which are in their own way unique.
The professional critics never came within miles of a just appreciation of his greatness, and the average 'cultured reader' receives his name with a droll air of allowance and patronage.
They are not, taking them in the mass, critics any longer, but merely professional admirers.
It may be assumed that the least conscientious and instructed of our professional guides has read something of the history of Sir Walter Scott, and is, if dimly, aware of the effect he produced in the realm of literature in his lifetime.
Apart from a little professional jealousy, Rossini met in Paris with the warmest possible reception; and the men in authority gave him substantial marks of their esteem.
When, however, his father at last consented to his becoming a professional musician, he is said to have presented him with an ivory scraper, as if to impress upon him the necessity of practising the art of erasing.
It is made up of accumulated tradition, kept alive by individual pride, rendered exact by professional opinion, and, like the higher arts, it spurred on and sustained by discriminating praise.
A Departure, the last professional sight of land, is always good, or at least good enough.
He who, a hundred years ago, more or less, pronounced the above words in the uneasiness of his heart, thirsting for professional distinction, was a young naval officer.
The love and admiration which the navy gave him so unreservedly soothed the restlessness of his professional pride.
Taking the ground" is the professional expression for a ship that is stranded in gentle circumstances.
The taking of Departure, if not the last sight of the land, is, perhaps, the last professionalrecognition of the land on the part of a sailor.
For those things, whose unmanageableness, even when represented on paper, makes one gasp with a sort of amused horror, were manned by men who are his direct professional ancestors.
By the way, Bogie attended his professional dinner and show of flowers at Jedburgh yesterday.
Having unluckily mislaid his letter, and being totally unable either to recollect the name of the proprietor or the professional gentleman, I returned this day the piece of antiquity to Mr. Riddoch, who sent it to me.
I may be partial, but the conversation of intelligent barristers amuses me more than that of other professional persons.
I regret to state that the matter is to my mind most suspicious," observed the surgeon, with true professional calmness.
The jugglers were now in high spirits; and they speedily addressed themselves to the process of changing their common apparel for the professional costume.
I shall be your courier, dear lady,' he said, and commenced hisprofessional career in her service by shouting to the vetturino to drive on.
But he was vindictive against him whom he called theprofessional doctrinaire, and he had vile names for the man.
They entered upon a professionaldiscussion of the ways and means of dealing with a revolutionary movement in the streets of a city like Milan, and passed on to the Piazza La Scala.
Many who, even in the narrowest professional sense, were far inferior to him, were preferred before him.
Elizabeth, too, suspected that a young man who knew so many things could not be trusted to know his own business well, and preferred for important professional work others who were lawyers and nothing besides.
After all efforts of professional skill had failed, and the unguent of a Moorish doctor, famous among the people, had been rubbed on the body without success, it was resolved to make a direct appeal to Heaven.
One morning, after a wretched house the previous evening, he chanced to run across a professional rival of his, but socially a great friend, Billy Emerson.
It finally stung me and ourprofessional partnership came to an end.
I earnestly beseech my readers, particularly the professional critics to whom I pay my respects later, not to misconstrue my motives nor consider any of my references as personal.
And does it not affect the lady's social and professional standing?
I apologized for interfering with Bessie's professional duties, but told Hopper that if he would accompany us upstairs, Miss Bellewood would volunteer to sing three of her latest songs.
During our Australian tour we were very much together, the three of us, but only in a professional and social way.
He gave his professional work little thought and was quite content to bask in the sunshine of the encomiums of press and friends until Dion Boucicault discovered latent talents which even Thorne himself did not know he possessed.
But I went back to my professional work with a clearer conscience, a lighter heart, a determination to pay little heed to the scoffers and a resolve to try to make the world laugh once more.
Beginning life as a roustabout on the Mississippi River he later blossomed forth as a professional gambler and soon was the most conspicuous member of that fraternity.
And that can be taught only by professional tutors.
They are simply mild protests at the methods employed of featuring my professional and private lives, particularly the latter.
That was as high as the afternoon professional pedestrian cared to ramble.
The Italian, Conti, had been a professional bicycle-thief who had slipped quietly into the Legion when things got too hot for him.
Bob Soubiron came, I imagine, from the United States in general, for he had been a professional automobile racer.
It is a thing more truly divine to do well your daily duty, to put out good, honest work, than it is to wear a clerical garb or perform professional religious duties.
Again and again he had inwardly cursed his folly in telling the Count the story of Annie Napier and her daughter; that breach of professional confidence was likely to lose his family thirty thousand a year.
She had heard her husband frequently speak of the strange things he encountered in hisprofessional career; but she had never herself seen any of them.
Once or twice before Will had remarked this tendency towards bitterness of feeling in the young girl's contemplation of the non-professional world.
A shrewd and clear-headed man of business, he was remarkable at once for his upright conduct of professional affairs, and for the uncompromising frankness, with the extreme courtesy, of his personal demeanour.
That is because you have never lived a professional life," she said.
Nor was it only in professionaldirections that his inquiries extended!
Some are making professional tours of the Southern States and recording the status of the people lately in rebellion.
Even the chimneys were not neglected, though I doubt if the smallest of professional sweeps could pass through them.
One who applied for permission to go in his professional capacity received a very positive refusal.
When not actively engaged in his professional duties, he visited all parts of the field where the fight was hottest.
I had ample material for entering at once upon my professional duties, in chronicling the disordered and threatening state of affairs.
My visit to the Rocky Mountains was a professional one.
I evaded it by assuring Rose that though free, the negroes had not attained all the privileges that pertained to the whites, and I should insist on her professional services being free to all on the plantation.
Professional skill is only acquired by a long and careful training.
Richardson, of The Tribune, on behalf of many of my professional friends, called the attention of President Lincoln to the little affair between General Sherman and myself.
During all my stay in the South, I did not meet a white overseer whom I considered the professional equal of this negro.
There they laid aside their professional jealousies, and passed their idle hours in efforts for mutual amusement.
With the sanction of his Minister and the Church with which he is connected, he is sent to College, where he remains till his professional education is complete.
There he took to sign-painting; and it was not until his twenty-sixth year that the idea of becoming a professional artist entered his head.
Owing to the entire want of opportunities for professional education at home, our leading artists, with few exceptions, were forced to pass a good part of their lives in foreign studios.
The first professional artist of whom there seems to be any record in our colonial history was possessor of a title that does not often fall to the lot of the artist: he was a deacon.
After deciding on a professional art career, he visited Europe, and benefited by observation in foreign studios, especially of France, although his style is essentially his own.
Lucien, seeing these petty trifles, hitherto unimagined, became aware of a whole world of indispensable superfluities, and shuddered to think of the enormous capital needed by a professional pretty fellow!
In my own case, their bills mean business; and that being so, I can afford to give more than a professional discounter who simply looks at the signatures.
There will be no professional jealousies, as you are a dancer; and as to beauty, you have all of you too much sense to show jealousy in public.
Lucien felt piqued by Lousteau's complete indifference during the reading of the sonnet; he was unfamiliar as yet with the disconcerting impassibility of the professional critic, wearied by much reading of poetry, prose, and plays.
But whatever might have been the professional character of the visit, it had, before the moment when our attention is called to the two interlocutors, lost any feature which could have marked it as such.
Habitual idlers and professional students of society, never available for any other purpose, have naturally, as ever, found there their best ground of personal study.
It seemed likely that his last professional visit to the Brands had been paid, even if it had not yet been paid for!
From the medical character of the visitor and the disabled appearance of the man in the easy-chair, it might have been concluded that the call was a professional one; and such was indeed the fact.
Then Robert Brand had been again seized with terrible illness and suffering, rendering a physician necessary; and what resource was left except the before-despised professional services of Dr.
No reply was made to the latter note, for three days: then the lawyer called upon her one day during the professional absence of the doctor.
Holton, as many people believed, possessed skill enough and was sufficiently attentive and studious in his profession, to have run a closer race with the local professional autocrat, Dr.
Who the lady was who first trod the stage as a professional actress is not known; but that she belonged to Killigrew's Company is certain.
Wilson was another professional writer, but less successful on the stage than in his recordership of Londonderry.
Let us now see what the noble gentlemen, the amateur rather than professional poets, contributed towards the public entertainment, and their own reputation, during the last half of the seventeenth century.
There were others of less note, withprofessional actresses to aid them, while a corps-de-ballet of peers and nymphs of greater or less repute, danced between the acts.
But neither the married nor the professional life of Booth was destined to be of long continuance.
Disgrace and disfranchisement were the penalties laid upon the professional Roman actor.
The professional authors were not equally successful.
This being so settles the question in the next paragraph as to the identity of the first professional actress.
Her professional salary had not been large, but her "benefits" were very productive; they who admired the actress or who loved the woman, alike pouring out gold and jewels in her lap.
I suppose your experience in other parts of Europe would not help you to believe it, but the average Spaniard who is not a professional beggar is too proud to receive money for any small favor,” replied the doctor.
There appeared to be some sort of freemasonry, or at least a professional sympathy, between them, for they seemed to get on very well together.
For such are nearly as unfit to be healers of the body, as mere professional clergymen to be healers of broken hearts and wounded minds.
Like St. Simon, Captain Brand was a professional anchor-setter.
Most of his professional life had been spent aboard big, comfortable ships that made the short Earth-Luna hop.
The professional guide, who is already soprofessional that he is exchanging German cartridges for tips, supplied a morbid detail of impossible bad taste.
