单词 | literary hack |
例句 | “Historically, to be a ghostwriter was to be seen as sort of a literary hack,” she said earlier this month during a video interview from her Manhattan apartment. Just Don’t Call Her a Ghostwriter 2021-01-24T05:00:00Z Among the vilest of the lampooners of that age were a quartette of literary hacks who for some years were engaged in denouncing the federalist party and government. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z His father, Richard Hogarth, who died in 1718, was a schoolmaster and literary hack, who had come to the metropolis to seek that fortune which had been denied to him in his native Westmorland. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z Others make no such pretensions, but set about their business in the prosaic manner of a literary hack. The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom 2011-12-30T03:00:25.917Z She became one of the leading Tory pamphleteers, political editors, and literary hacks in London, employed for years and respected in an odd way by such people as Richard Steele and Dean Swift. The Female Wits 2011-09-28T02:00:23.247Z But these are doubtless either literary hacks or the degraded producers of best-sellers. Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z That was said with reference to the irksome attempts a certain distinguished literary hack was making to draw from Mr. Bryant the materials for articles that would sell well whenever the aged poet should die. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z Your life as a social favorite, and mine as a literary hack, gave little opportunity for our seeing each other, yet we met far more frequently than would have seemed possible. The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z Yet, uninvited, unbidden, she will steal into the garret, gaunt in its lonesome ugliness, and bend over the wasted form of some poor literary hack, until his dreams reflect the beauty of her presence. The Vagabond in Literature For instance, there was a certain literary hack, a pure and simple hack, who was engaged at a salary to furnish so many columns a week to order. My First Book: the experiences of Walter Besant, James Payn, W. Clark Russell, Grant Allen, Hall Caine, George R. Sims, Rudyard Kipling, A. Conan Doyle, M.E. Braddon, F.W. Robinson, H. Rider Haggard, R.M. Ballantyne, I. Zangwill, Morley Roberts, David Christie Murray, Marie Corelli, Jerome K. Jerome, John Strange Winter, Bret Harte, "Q.", Robert Buchanan, Robert Louis Stevenson, with an introduction by Jerome K. Jerome. Tolstoy wrote in affluence and at leisure, and re-wrote his books; Dostoyevsky worked like a literary hack for his daily bread, ever pressed for time and ever in crying need of money. An Outline of Russian Literature As for me, I'm a rough, coarse sort of a fellow—a newspaper correspondent, a useful literary hack—that's all. Under False Pretences A Novel A regular “literary hack” will do the thing much better. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 He became a journalist: he wrote for magazines and newspapers and reviews: he was what is called a literary hack. Brooke's Daughter A Novel In a similar sense an author may have his materials collected and arranged by a literary hack or "devil." Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 3 "Destructors" to "Diameter" George Robinson, though his present wants were provided for by his pen, was by no means disposed to sink into a literary hack. The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson By One of the Firm The poetaster and literary hack, Whetstone, who wrote a poetical memoir of George Gascoigne after his death, entitles it a remembrance of "the well employed life and godly end" of his hero. A History of Elizabethan Literature So notoriously is this the case, that even the first writers of the South, especially for the press, are generally broken-down Northern literary hacks, or miserable Irish and English refugees. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy He was no longer the literary hack, the despised minion, the swindled victim at the mercy of harpy publishers and newspaper knaves. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 1, January 1886 You have suspected I was or had been something different from the poor literary hack you see me, and you have been right, my boy.” My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life A portion of the Memoir may have been written by another literary hack named Pinkerton, but all of it was compiled under the direction of Phillips. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends He was equally at home whether as the King in Don Cæsar de Bazan or as Tom Stylus the literary hack, in Society. Shadows of the Stage But then he is a sort of literary hack now. A Crooked Path A Novel Defoe began to write novels as a tradesman, as a literary hack, and as a reformer. A History of English Prose Fiction In fact, there’s not much chance of a poor literary hack sleeping over his work. My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life For these books there must have been quite an army of literary hacks employed during the twenty years prior to the appearance of George Borrow in that great army. George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends The literary hack, who, if he had lived a century earlier, would have been glad to turn a Turkish tale for half-a-crown, now cheerfully furnished a "fireside horror" for the Christmas number. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance This man has been all his life a literary hack. Walking-Stick Papers —Critic and dramatist, belonged to a Roman Catholic family, and was an unsuccessful playwright, a literary hack, and a critic of little acumen or discrimination. A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature Those who represent him as dependent in such matters on the help of literary hacks are just ignorant of the facts. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections I think it questionable whether some literary hack was not employed, by the booksellers, to draw up the part of the work "On the origin, manners, customs, religion, and language of the Indians." Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers The principle of growth was in the young literary hack, and he must obey it or die. Among My Books First Series David earned his living as a journalist and literary hack. War-time Silhouettes He became a literary hack, and contributed humorous articles to such magazines as Fraser and Punch. Halleck's New English Literature His father was a school teacher and a "literary hack," which means that in literature he did whatever he could find to do, reporting, editing, and so on. Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Meantime Mark Twain was still awaiting the rewards of journalism, and doing literary hack work of one sort or another. Mark Twain Sir Walter Scott could write his "Ivanhoe" when inspired by the sentiments which warmed the chivalrous ages; he became a mere literary hack when he wrote to pay his debts. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. The "poetical register" indicated was the book of that name, containing the Lives and Characteristics of the English Dramatic Poets, which Mr. Giles Jacob, an industrious literary hack, had issued in 1723. Fielding Let the improvident literary hack, the starved impecunious Grub Street debtor, the newspaper frequenter of sponging- houses, remember this in their criticisms of the vile and slavish Yankee. The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Among scholars, only those would remain loyal to the old order of things who had been infected with the political mania or who were literary hacks in any form whatever. Thoughts out of Season Part I "I wish I could be a literary hack, or anything else," sighed poor Allen. Magnum Bonum Throughout the eighteenth century, he was chiefly regarded as a literary hack who had translated Richardson's Pamela and done things of a similar kind to earn his livelihood. Balzac How can you look round at these august hills, look up at this divine sky, taste this finely tempered air, and then talk like a literary hack on a second floor in Bloomsbury? Man and Superman It is I who am sorry," said Miss Lavish "literary hacks are shameless creatures. A Room with a View Let the improvident literary hack; the starved impecunious Grub Street debtor; the newspaper frequenter of sponging-houses, remember this in their criticisms of the vile and slavish Yankee. Condensed Novels There is nothing more strongly impressed on me than that those children are not to begin being made literary hacks before they are come to maturity. Magnum Bonum So he had no place even as a literary hack! The Fawn Gloves |
随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。