The successful writer especially is in danger of becoming isolated from the realities that nurtured in him the strength to win success.
The writer who reports the custom offers no explanation of it.
The writer adds: "It is sometimes reported that the souls go to the underworld, but that is not true.
Thus we are told by a well-informed writerthat "the natives do not believe in death from natural causes; therefore all sickness is attributed to the agency of sorcery, and counter charms are used to destroy its effect.
Again, an old writer tells us that at the appearance of every new moon the negroes of the Congo clapped their hands and cried out, sometimes falling on their knees, "So may I renew my life as thou art renewed.
The latter writer mentions a recent case in which fourteen or sixteen shipwrecked persons were cooked and eaten.
The writerwitnessed what he calls the ceremony of consecration in the case of a young man of the highest rank in Somosomo and he has described what he saw.
Like most savages, the Australian aborigines seem to fear only the ghosts of the recently departed; one writer tells us that they have no fear of the ghost of a man who has been dead say forty years.
Speaking of the Papuans of Dutch New Guinea in general another writer informs us that "they honour the memory of the dead in every way, because they ascribe to the spirits of the departed a great influence on the life of the survivors.
The journal itself is strongly corroborative of my contention as the weight of evidence is with the writer whose story is everywhere the simple straightforward one of the daily chronicler of the events that came under his observation.
The writer evidently means Fort Erie at the entrance to the Niagara River.
Mr. Swinburne is a writer from whom on points of aesthetic judgement I for one differ, but with the greatest reluctance.
Below the prologue the writer has added the couplet: Th' old wits are gone: looke for noe new thing by us, For nullum est jam Dictum quod non sit dictum prius.
Probably, however, what the writer had in view was some supposed incongruity between the characters of popular romance, such as Robin and his crew, and the shepherds whom he regards as pure Arcadians.
There is, indeed, no reason to suppose that any writer before Carducci ever considered Cintio's play as belonging to the realm of pastoral.
On the whole, perhaps, Daniel's merits as a pastoral writerhave been exaggerated.
Euripides seems to me to have gone further than any other writer in the attempt to combine in one unity these separate poles.
Quite different again are the momentous judgments pronounced upon him as a writer of tragedy by two of the greatest judges.
The tendency was already beginning in classical times and no classical writercarried it further than Euripides.
But we can see that it is derived from early sources, and notably from a "Life" which was written by one Satyrus, a writer of the Peripatetic or Aristotelian school, towards the end of the third century B.
The writer remembers to have been present at an interview between two chiefs of the Great Prairies west of the Mississippi, and when an interpreter was in attendance who spoke both their languages.
The color of the Indian, the writer believes, is peculiar to himself, and while his cheek-bones have a very striking indication of a Tartar origin, his eyes have not.
The story is complete in spite of the fact that a few chapters remained still to be written when the writer succumbed to disease.
Mrs. Browning in range of imagination; but in strength and depth the American writer is quite the equal of the English, and in compactness and symmetry altogether her superior.
To the end that this work should stir up the masses, it was necessary that the writer destined to the task should be a clever organizer, and at the same time a man devoid of individuality of style and of any novel ideas.
And it was an advantage that the writer should be very well known, so that his enormous editions might counterpoise those of Lasserre.
In longer passages, the whole heart, sense, and understanding of the writer seem to be thrown into his narrative.
Footnote 136: The writer of the treatise on Rhetoric addressed to C.
Yet he appears as the unhesitating advocate of all the tenets of this philosophy, and denies the foundations of religious belief with a zeal more like religious earnestness than the spirit of any other writer of antiquity.
No writer of antiquity was more profoundly impressed by the serious import and mystery of life.
But nowriter of antiquity is less of an idealist than Lucretius: there is no writer, ancient or modern, whose words are more truthful and unvarnished.
Aulus Gellius, a writer of the time of Hadrian, often quotes and comments upon him with hearty and genial sympathy.
No writer has shown a profounder reverence for human affection.
Was the Greek writer partly parodying, in accordance with the tradition of the old comedy, partly reproducing a tragedy of Euripides?
In no ancient writer do we find the certainty and universality of law more emphatically and unmistakably expressed than in Lucretius.
Ennius entered on his career as a writer at a time when the long strain of a great struggle was giving place to the confidence and security of a great triumph.
The sacred writer evidently was well posted on the tendency of human nature to worry and concern itself about the affairs of others, hence his injunction: Fret not thyself because of evil doers.
The sacred writer knew what he was talking about when he spoke of the human heart as deceitful and desperately wicked.
Every writer of the human heart has expatiated upon this great source of worry--jealousy.
The sacred writer has something very wise and illuminating to say upon this subject.
A most tender friendship was formed between the revolutionary writer and the aristocratic Sidney.
The writer who goes by the name of Mark Rutherford is not the most popular novelist of his time by any means.
Greatness is deliberately written; the present writer has read and re-read his two books, and after putting this review aside for some days to consider the discretion of it, the word still stands.
But if Lodge cannot be considered a man of genius, he is certainly a writer of very remarkable gifts.
Greene's non-dramatic works are the largest contribution left by any Elizabethan writer to the novel literature of the day.
As a novel writer and an observer of human nature, his own portrait is perhaps his masterpiece.
Unless the hand of the writer grew tired, there is no reason why it should ever end.
The writer of that paper has not a contented heart.
The allusions to history were far less numerous, but the heart of the young writer made itself felt.
I will proceed to read them aloud, taking them up haphazard, and having no idea myself who the writer of each essay is.
From the Greeks, from the Romans, from the English, from America, from Australia, from all parts of the globe did the youngwriter cull incident and quotation.
As a writerhe has mastered everything, except language; as a novelist he can do everything, except tell a story; as an artist he is everything, except articulate.
I am no Hengist or Alaric; only a writer of Articles in bad prose; stick to thy last, O Tutor; the Pen is not worthless, it is omnipotent to those who have Faith.
A young writer can gain more from the study of a literary poet than from the study of a lyrist.
You never hear men talk out here in the bunk house or ridin' the country like a writerwould make 'em talk on the page of a book; take my word for that.
The man, who could not write and whose reading was limited to brands, never received mail and before he arrived there was speculation as to the writer of the one letter.
This writer retailed how, after a brief, disillusioning few weeks together, Hildreth had grown tired of the poverty and spareness of the living a poet was able to make for her .
Ward, our literary editor, looks on him as a distinguished contributor to the Independent, and a young writer of great and growing promise" .
My hopes of making immediate money as a writer of poems for the magazines had so far been barren of fruit.
The writer of it hailed me as a poet of great achievement already, but of much greater future promise.
The writer is however, chiefly indebted to the details with which he has been kindly and copiously supplied by the present First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr Goschen and his staff, especially Lord Encombe.
As a writer in Macmillan's Magazine[49] points out, population generally increases up to the relative limit set by the power of procuring subsistence at any given time and place.
As the writer has a personal reason for knowing, this is the year in which the amalgamation first took a definite shape, though it was not perhaps fully carried out till a little later.
The writer of Money laboured to reproduce the antithetic polish of his original.
The later experiences and their social results, which have now been described, have made it possible for the writer to contrast the East End of the later eighties with that of the later nineties.
In the West of England, with which the writer is specially acquainted, this is generally the case.
Shortly before his death, the late Sir Andrew Clark assured the present writer that his remarks in his earlier work, England, on the medical profession were accurate in all respects and applicable to the existing state of things.
For the information embodied in this chapter, the writer is under many obligations to the late Sir John E.
Wilson, the eminentwriter on financial and commercial topics.
The present writer has, however, some reason to question the accuracy of the tradition of a Rothschild secretly watching the great battle.
The writer does not in the following pages pre-suppose any knowledge of his former book on the part of the readers of his present one.
The republication of some Satires, which the humour of the moment now disposes the writer to recall, was strenuously censured, the other day, in a Morning Paper.
Mackintosh is, it seems, thewriter of the defensive letter in the Morning Chronicle.
What privileges does this writer claim for his friends!
I, a poor writer of no particular family and very meagre fortune, and you my ward, a princess standing at the opposite pole of life.
She may patronize the poor writer whose books she knows.
Shortly after the disaster, one of the survivors told the present writer of a duel which he witnessed between a Zulu and an officer of the 24th regiment.
One of these, Lieutenant Coghill, the writer of this sketch had the good fortune to know well.
He was educated in a monastery, and his learning and ability as a scholar and writer were remarkable.
Samuel Johnson, the philosopher, the poet, the lexicographer, the profound moralist, and chief writer of his time.
In a glass case are exhibited things once owned and handled by the great writer who, next to the cathedral, gives Lichfield its interest and renown.
It is a hardship to the writer to be compelled to retrench the story of the early deeds for liberty of Bonivard and his boon companions.
So marked is the fact that the Constitution requires a decennial census that a distinguished French writer on statistics declares, "The United States presents in its history a phenomenon which has no parallel.
This is the book mentioned in the General Sketch as being the work of a writer named "Wills.
If the hand is very steady it may be put in with a small brush, which is particularly useful in the erratic flourishes in which this writer rejoiced so much.
The present writerholds the view that all three are the same person, and that they are also the same as the horn in Daniel 7.
The subject of these conversations had occupied the earnest if intermittent attention of the writer for over twenty years.
The aim of each writer has been to produce a work compiled with sufficient knowledge and scholarship to be of value to the student of Archaeology and History, and yet not too technical in language for the use of an ordinary visitor or tourist.
The above account is most interesting, and, assuming that the writer was correct in the facts as to what was done by Wyatt and by his father, we are confronted with a difficulty.
The writer says: "We have had the honour in these parts to bring my Lord Brooke to a quiet condition.
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