| 单词 | man of letters |
| 例句 | At home during the day, he obeys the routines of a settled bourgeois man of letters. ‘Pasolini’ Review: One Rebellious Filmmaker’s Tribute to Another 2019-05-09T04:00:00Z He made clear that he considers himself a man of letters who read Dickens and Tolstoy as a youngster and bought first editions as a young man at bargain prices from booksellers along the Seine. Saint Laurent?s Other Half 2011-05-11T19:13:21Z But song repeatedly conquers senility — and rage, fear and helplessness — in “Allelujah!,” the sharp but slow new comedy of dismay by Britain’s most adored octogenarian man of letters, Alan Bennett. Review: Song Trumps Senility in the Angry ‘Allelujah!’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z We may imagine him as a stuffed robe-and-crown who gives a thumbs-up to the Authorized Version and fades into muffled bedchambers, but James was a serious man of letters. The Ill-Defined Plot 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z However, Luther — obdurate and reckless, bilious and doctrinaire — eventually swamps the book, as he eventually swamped the urbane and ironic man of letters. Erasmus vs. Luther — a Rift That Defined the Course of Western Civilization 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z As a man of letters, he wrote the pioneering gothic horror novel The Castle of Otranto. Tour one of England’s most extraordinary Gothic Revival mansions 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Cohen was a man of letters, both poet and novelist, long before he set words to music. Books of The Times: ‘I’m Your Man,’ Leonard Cohen Biography by Sylvie Simmons 2012-09-13T22:17:26Z “Notes of a Native Song,” which runs at REDCAT through Saturday night, is a mash-up of songs, speech, visuals and musical styles that explores the work of 20th century man of letters James Baldwin. Essential Arts & Culture: Mighty year-enders, naked hotel theater, a 'Messiah' for rich and poor 2016-12-16T05:00:00Z She was accompanied, I imagine, by her seventy-year-old father, the noted man of letters Sir Leslie Stephen. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Wilson describes himself as "a jobbing man of letters", and this particular job is part of an eight-book contract he signed last year with his publisher. Dante in Love by AN Wilson ? review 2011-07-15T08:00:01Z Mr. Honour began contributing reviews and articles to The Times of London and The Connoisseur magazine and wrote “Horace Walpole,” a study of the 18th-century politician and man of letters, published in 1957. Hugh Honour, Art Historian and Author, Dies at 88 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z What follows is a thorough, skillfully assembled chronology of the life and times of this all-around man of letters and public gadfly whose historical novels are widely regarded as his finest achievements. ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Finally, in “Quintin Claribel,” Baker tells of a boy, eventually a man of letters, who is literally forced to eat his words. Michael Dirda selects three magical books 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z He was restless as a man of letters as well. Alastair Reid, a Restless Poet and Essayist, Is Dead at 88 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z Elect Bert from “Sesame Street”: It’s time, after all these years, to have a man of letters in the White House. Style Invitational Week 1184: Okay, choose another candidate, then 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z He was a man of letters but also, like his hero Byron, a man of action — a war hero and a restless adventurer, who even swam the Hellespont when he was 69. A Renowned Travel Writer’s Letters From the Road 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z His father Isaac D'Israeli was a man of letters whose book Curiosities of Literature was a big hit in the Romantic age. One nation in one man: the portrait of Benjamin Disraeli 2012-10-03T14:52:44Z On the final page, he made two statements about the man of letters that his own career personified. John Gross obituary 2011-01-11T18:09:15Z He saw himself as “the Harvard and Oxford classics scholar, the polyglot, polymath culture maven, a journalist and man of letters.” Books of The Times: ‘Steal the Menu,’ by Raymond Sokolov 2013-05-09T21:24:23Z David S. Brown begins his calm, eloquent biography of Henry Adams, historian and man of letters, with his subject’s own words: “I’ve outlived at least three quite distinct worlds since 1838.” Review | The best new audiobooks: Tales of deception, suspense — and some history 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Levi, a painter, doctor and man of letters in his native Turin, was forced into exile in the southern hinterlands as a punishment for his anti-Fascist activities. ‘Christ Stopped at Eboli’: An Italian Saga Returns in Full 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Indeed, to those who have known only the courtly, controlled man of letters with the encyclopedic knowledge of classical music, the account may come as a shock. A Publishing Superstar Whose Memoir Shuns Glitz to Explore Private Torment 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Along the way, Reed went from a widely misunderstood, even reviled underground figure into an international man of letters, published author and respected artist. Lou Reed, legendary rock pioneer, dead at 71 2013-10-27T22:51:00Z Ever the man of letters, his resignation was accompanied by a lengthy pamphlet outlining his intellectual objections. EP Thompson: the unconventional historian 2013-03-06T15:05:11Z Perpetual Euphoria: On the Duty to Be Happyby Pascal Bruckner Yet in another sense he's a throwback to an earlier literary type, the 18th-century man of letters. Pascal Bruckner: 'Happiness is a moment of grace' 2011-01-23T00:05:40Z But Vidal saw himself foremost as a man of letters. Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies 2012-08-01T17:33:11Z In contrasting the artist with the professional writer, Woolf — whose father, Leslie Stephen, was an arch-professional man of letters — was making a statement about which path she herself meant to follow. Bookends: Are Novelists Too Wary of Criticizing Other Novelists? 2013-09-03T17:19:22Z The fictional character is described on his website as "Scotland's most respected man of letters". TV show for Bob Servant character 2012-02-17T10:52:33Z But it is as a man of letters – equally at home writing about books, theatre or sport – that Sheed will be chiefly remembered. Wilfrid Sheed obituary 2011-02-21T19:01:03Z Contrary to myth, he was also popular with his insurance office colleagues and well-respected in Prague as a man of letters. ‘Is That Kafka?’: a new book reveals a pool-playing moviegoer afraid of mice 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z A not-to-be-missed Festschrift commemorating this witty avant-garde publisher, photographer and man of letters. Review | Forget trendy bestsellers: This best books list takes you off the beaten track 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z We must acknowledge, of course, that the idea of even a man of letters becomes more anachronistic by the year. Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z But are both literary editors and their bosses in thrall to the idea of the "star reviewer", created by steady accretion of high-profile reviews, eventually leading to the figure of the "man of letters"? Gender balancing the books 2013-06-08T07:00:00Z My mentor in literary journalism, Robert Phelps, was an all-around man of letters, now mainly remembered as an authority on Colette. Perspective | An afternoon inside a bookstore was as glorious as ever. Here’s what I bought. 2021-05-19T04:00:00Z Mr. Epstein could be described as a man of letters with a feel for commerce or as a man of business with a taste for fine literature, and both would be correct. Jason Epstein, Editor and Publishing Innovator, Is Dead at 93 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z And when he died in 2012 at the age of 86, his obituary in The New York Times summed him up as a “man of letters.” Summer Movie Release Schedule 2014-05-02T22:02:27Z Descriptions of his appearance err towards cartoonish caricature – dishevelled, wild-haired, fidgety, like a mad professor who has accidentally electrocuted himself – only adding to the mythology of a wild man of letters. Stephen Poliakoff on Dancing on the Edge: 'I can come across as arrogant' 2013-01-27T18:00:01Z An erudite man of letters during the early years of the Turkish republic, and a devoted Communist, Mr. Ali wrote novels, stories, poems and articles that repeatedly got him thrown into jail. A Once-Forgotten Novel Unites Turkish Readers in Troubled Times 2017-02-26T05:00:00Z He asks: “Would it be immodest to claim that this book gives a glimpse of a not unrepresentative way of being a late-20th-century-early-21st century man of letters?” Books of The Times: Inducements to Filthiness and Other Paradoxes 2011-03-22T11:00:00Z With luxurious locks and a well-fitting suit and vest, Garcin grandly introduces himself as a “journalist — man of letters,” and appears to be a gent of refined tastes. ‘No Exit’: Ready for your close-up 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z In a climate that Mr. Snyder helped create, he billed himself as a businessman rather than as a man of letters. Richard E. Snyder, 93, Dies; Drove Simon & Schuster to New Heights 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Lives Lived: Paul Johnson, a prolific journalist, biographer and historian prized by conservatives, fashioned himself a man of letters in the great British tradition. Battling the Border Surge 2023-01-13T05:00:00Z “He really is that European idea of a man of letters,” said one of his former students, the poet Mary Jo Bang, in a 2017 interview with the Paris Review. Richard Howard, Pulitzer-winning poet and translator, dies at 92 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z Epstein could be described as a man of letters with a feel for commerce or as a man of business with a taste for fine literature, and both would be correct. This week’s passages 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z Dr. Bito, whose novels and essays established him in his home country and beyond as a man of letters as well as a man of science, died Nov. 14 at his home in Budapest. Laszlo Bito, scientist who gave hope to glaucoma sufferers, dies at 87 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z When Markov, Bulgaria’s leading man of letters before he defected in 1968, died four days later, a pinhead-size pellet was removed from his thigh. Opinion | A menace more durable than a virus 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z He arrived in 1962, equipped only with his native wit and an ambition to be a man of letters. Clive James, Australian-born TV host, writer, critic and all-around wit, dies at 80 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z As a man of letters would do, he wrote a poem about his experiences, and hopes to read it on D-Day. Looking for a ride to Omaha; British veteran remembers WWII 2019-06-05T04:00:00Z There was a time when he appeared to approach that “man of letters” role with a studied gravity; these days he seems to wear the mantle more lightly. Ian McEwan: ‘Who’s going to write the algorithm for the little white lie?’ 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z “The son of Polish immigrants who became a French academician, Alain Finkielkraut is not only a prominent man of letters but the symbol of what the Republic allows everyone,” the president added in another tweet. Macron condemns antisemitic abuse during gilets jaunes Paris protest 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z Donald Hall, a prolific and award-winning poet and man of letters who was widely admired for his sharp humor and painful candor about nature, mortality, baseball and the distant past, has died. Donald Hall, US poet laureate and prize-winning man of letters, dies at 89 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z Donald Hall, a prolific, award-winning poet and man of letters widely admired for his sharp humor and painful candor about nature, mortality, baseball and the distant past, has died at age 89. Former U.S. poet laureate Donald Hall dies in New Hampshire 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z After the success of “Haunts” he separated from his wife and became a man of letters. Charles Sprawson wrote a celebrated book. Then he vanished 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z In The Man Who Invented Christmas, Thackeray is shown as the more confident and successful man of letters, condescending to Dickens in the dining room of the Garrick Club. Did Dickens invent Christmas? No, but he did reinvent the novel 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z Another is Prof. Sir Anthony Coates, known locally as a man of letters — the letters being those he lists after his name to highlight his credentials. Grenfell Tower Fire Shows Double Standard at Work in One London District 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z A former Jesuit priest who left the order to marry and have children, McGirr is a man of letters who has a wild and woolly way with his erudition. ‘Snooze: The Lost Art of Sleep’: a delightful eye-opener 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z Raban, a revered man of letters when he moved from England to Seattle, was also a seasoned sailor. A new-to-Seattle reading list, part 2: The nonfiction edition 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z At a literary event in his honor, Mater is surrounded by people who knew his father in ways he never did — as a man of letters and as a prisoner. A son’s contemplative search for his father long missing in Gaddafi’s Libya 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Mr. de Moraes’ heirs also felt the presentation slighted the lyricist, who was an esteemed man of letters and world-class bon vivant when he and Mr. Jobim formed their fruitful songwriting partnership. The Woman Who Inspired ‘The Girl From Ipanema’ Says the Olympic Opening Ceremonies Didn’t Do Justice to the Song 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Instances in the lives of Max Beerbohm, the caricaturist and notable man of letters, and W. Somerset Maugham, the novelist, inspired Coward to write “A Song at Twilight” as a starring vehicle for himself. Review: ‘A Song at Twilight’ at Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z A man of letters with interests in art and classical music, Thomson was a top quality chemist early in life and was so strong politically that he ran for the Australian Parliament in 1982. Peter Thomson's only pro win in the U.S. remains impressive 60 years later - Golf Digest 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Communist party spin doctors have sought to portray Xi not only as an unassailable strongman but also as a bookish man of letters. Publishers under pressure as China's censors reach for red pen 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z He is an eminent man of letters with a cushy gig at an Ivy League institution. Nobel Prize Winner Angus Deaton's Theories, In Plain English 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z The slightly built Mr. Zhelev was a man of letters rather than politics, although in his academic work he clashed with the communist authorities. Zhelyu Zhelev, communist-era dissident who became president of Bulgaria, dies 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z This they use to portray him as a man of letters, theologically learned, and amply qualified to be a caliph or leader of the global Muslim community, or Ummah. The rise of IS - and how to beat it 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z In 1946, the Argentine man of letters Jorge Luis Borges wrote a short story about an empire, unnamed, that set out to construct a perfect map of its territory. Sebastian Seung’s Quest to Map the Human Brain 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z Perhaps the postman waiting outside became one of the first people outside the immediate family to learn of the death of the great man of letters. Why did Charles Dickens have a personal postbox? 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z I’d say Henry was the first man of letters in the family, most likely a frustrated, would-be journalist or story-teller of the tough lonely life of the American frontier. The Louisiana Swamp Doctor Gained Distinction as a Chronicler of the American Frontier 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Many decades later, another former American diplomat and man of letters, George Kennan, highlighted Einstein’s prediction, I believe, in the foreword to “ American Diplomacy,” a volume that had widespread use as a textbook. Lewis Einstein, Diplomat and Man of Letters 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z In one of his more imaginative leaps, Rose discerns in Churchill’s writing a secret affinity for Oscar Wilde, the Irish aesthete, playwright and man of letters brought down by scandal. Book review: “The Literary Churchill: Author, Reader, Actor,” by Jonathan Rose It also highlighted his extensive career as a teacher, academic, broadcaster, literary critic and man of letters. Poet Seamus Heaney dies aged 74 2013-08-30T10:21:05Z I knew Bruce, and though he may be remembered for his life of crime, it was as a man of letters that he always impressed me. The armed robber who became a writer 2013-07-12T00:07:36Z At first glance, the commander does not look like a man of letters. Syrian frontline's rebel poet 2012-09-27T14:05:12Z TR extolled in effervescent prose a ringing tribute to Einstein as perceptive diplomat and talented man of letters. Lewis Einstein, Diplomat and Man of Letters 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z From 'The Best Man' to 'Myra Breckinridge,' nothing was out of bounds in the work of this famed man of letters Is there a 2012 equivalent to the honorific “man of letters”? Remembering Gore Vidal, a Roaring Literary Lion 2012-08-01T22:05:28Z Although happy to see and be seen, Vidal saw himself foremost as a man of letters. American Writer Gore Vidal Dead at 86 2012-08-01T15:05:34Z Carlos Fuentes, Mexico’s Universal Man of Letters, Dies at 83 The celebrated writer was a polyglot man of letters whose elegant and driven prose helped sell Mexico to the outside world. Mexico?s Universal Man 2012-05-16T08:45:00Z He is a man of letters, and of good character; but he is not rich, and his allowance is too small at present for him to live with decency. The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) 2012-04-03T02:00:34.180Z Having hitherto aspired after fame by his writings, he will henceforth esteem it a libel to be called a man of letters—homo trium literarum. The Loyalists of Massachusetts And the Other Side of the American Revolution 2012-04-02T02:00:25.387Z This man of letters always wielded a poison pen. Remembering Gore Vidal, a Roaring Literary Lion 2012-08-01T22:05:28Z To reach his position one ought to know his definition of a man of letters. An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life 2012-03-21T02:00:30.747Z Though Octavio Paz preceded him as Latin America’s internationally acclaimed man of letters, Fuentes became something more, a public intellectual who moved easily among the bright and powerful in London, Paris, and New York. Mexico?s Universal Man 2012-05-16T08:45:00Z Since then, after considerable controversy, the paragraph in question has been shown as the fabrication of a Liverpool man of letters, whose name we have forgotten. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z In the introduction to the essays he expresses his conception of his own position as a man of letters in a foreign country. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z But the Archbishop is really too loose in his imitation of this charitable definition bestowed by a man of letters. Satires And Profanities 2012-03-14T02:00:24.637Z By a man of letters he does not mean the poet, for instance, who is all soul, so much as the strong-brained writer whose guardian angel is a fine sanity. An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life 2012-03-21T02:00:30.747Z The government had sent Don Ramon Lista, a traveller and man of letters, on an exploring expedition along the east coast. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z He is an educated English gentleman, very thoroughly a man of letters, who has had the good fortune to add to his treasury of experience by travels in strange places and among strange people. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z Voltaire is said to have told his father when he left college, at the age of fifteen, “I wish to be a man of letters, and nothing else.” Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z Though not in his day regarded as a man of letters, it is yet in virtue of his writing that Marcus Aurelius survives. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z But Prescott, with no credentials save his reputation as a man of letters and his own charming personality, enjoyed a welcome of boundless cordiality. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z Herr Julius Popper, a German engineer and man of letters, had conducted a prospecting expedition across the island and had found gold in quantities around San Sebastian Bay. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z A brilliant but grossly perverse English man of letters was sentenced to imprisonment a few years ago for the foulest crime. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z His letters are among the most varied, interesting, and delightful of any left by a great man of letters. Voltaire: A Sketch of his Life and Works 2012-03-14T02:00:25.570Z The fame in his day was for the men of rhetoric, and he was a man of letters. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z Prescott makes another and very characteristic remark, which shows him to have been then as always the man of letters as well as the historian, with a keen eye to what is interesting. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z During most of his time, another man of letters belonging like Lytton to the titled classes divided with Lytton the social patronage of literary beginners. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z It was his misfortune to be involved in politics, for he was as thorough a man of letters as ever existed, and most of his failings were more or less incidental to that character. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z Lacking to-day a man of letters who holds such a place in the affections of his countrymen as Irving held, it is difficult for us to realise the impression made by his death. The Last Words of Distinguished Men and Women (Real and Traditional) 2012-02-22T03:00:24.020Z He is a man of letters, but he has a taste for religion. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z On Wednesday night, Anthony Haden-Guest — gadfly, socialite, New York man of letters — began a similar campaign against a rampant, if not equally pernicious, public problem: the depredations of the self-storage trade. Anthony Haden-Guest Has a Protest Party for a Storage War 2012-02-18T04:17:14Z Several decades later another illustrious English man of letters sojourned in Lausanne. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z But it is not every consummate man of letters of whom it can be unhesitatingly affirmed that he was brave, just and pious. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z It is the genius of a born man of letters using the facts discovered by scientific methods for its own purpose. The Gentle Reader 2012-02-15T03:00:37.463Z Yet he is not essentially a man of letters or a poet; he is too indolent; his style is not inevitable or compulsive. The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire 2012-03-11T03:00:13.983Z In his public career he enjoyed a three-fold success—as ambassador, as politician and as man of letters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z Looked at from without his life was uneventful enough, the even career of a man of letters, singularly fortunate in all his circumstances. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z The effect was to give a political direction to what should have been the career of a man of letters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z If Borrow had been a normal man of letters he would have been quite satisfied to settle down at Oulton, in a comfortable home, with a devoted wife. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z His book deserves wide popularity, and it has the rare merit of being so written as to be attractive alike to the young student and to the mature man of letters.” Early Days in North Queensland 2012-01-24T03:00:29.987Z The wand of a man of letters can there do more, than can be achieved, by the power of Midas, or the wonder-working lamp of Aladdin. Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) 2012-01-17T03:00:17.977Z Henry James the elder has been sometimes described as 'the Reverend,' but in fact he never occupied any position but that of a detached philosopher, lecturer, man of letters. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z "Couleurs" consists of delightful twittings on ideas, and surely is not greatly important in a nation where one man of letters out of four has mastered the art of the conte. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z They reveal, for example, the singularly non-literary character of this great man of letters. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z You shall find a man of letters sharing diggings with an auctioneer, and a medical student pigging with a stockbroker's clerk. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z He repaired to London, but the precarious life of a man of letters was fitted to nurse instead of checking his morbid tendencies and unhappy habits. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z These diplomatic functions occasioned a temporary interruption to his literary pursuits—an interruption which will be regretted by those only who have not reflected on the advantages of active life to the man of letters. The Philosophy of History, Vol. 1 of 2 2011-12-24T03:07:59.623Z If all the philosophic work of James were wiped out by an act of God or by the arguments of philosophers, James, the man of letters, would still survive. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z When Borrow crossed his path in later life he received no special consideration, such as would be given very promptly in our day by a Cabinet minister to a man of letters of like distinction. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z He was the taciturn, frugal-living man of letters, who for five years, as he himself confesses, never spent a single peaceful hour save when he was asleep. Book Collecting: A Guide for Amateurs 2011-12-21T03:00:41.820Z Only our medical friends have a right to speak of the great doctor's place in their own world; but one would like to see his honorable place as a man of letters more generally understood. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z A well-known English man of letters, Mr Robert Harborough Sherard, published a final official "Life" of the dead author, and Wilde's own "De Profundis" appeared to startle, sadden, and thrill the whole reading world. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z For Johnson was not a first-rate man of letters; he wrote little that is even tolerable to read; his letter to Chesterfield and the preface to the Dictionary are his most vital productions. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Mr. Hume, who considered a town as the proper scene for a man of letters, made many attempts to prevail on him to leave his retirement. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 2011-12-05T03:00:41.403Z As became one who had a practical acquaintance with editors and publishers, Mr. Rudge knew that for more than a century Brown's Magazine had been a Mecca of the man of letters. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Mr. Hilaire Belloc, who is now not unknown in London as a man of letters, used to tell of a memorable encounter with Jowett. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z There is no doubt about it, the most prejudiced and hostile critics must admit it—in a literary sense, as a man of letters with extraordinary genius, Oscar Wilde has come into his own. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z On the day of his death he was the most famous man of letters in the world. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Over the next half century, he proved to have a roving literary mind, and he had the career of a genuine man of letters, with a body of work characterized by both seriousness and audacity. Michael Hastings, British Playwright, Dies at 73 2011-11-29T04:09:35Z Mary Pridmore had suddenly remembered that she was being escorted downstairs by a distinguished man of letters. The Sailor 2011-12-03T03:00:11.697Z Most of his writings were translated into German, and some into English and French, and he gained international repute as a man of letters. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z Let us take a Continental view of Wilde in his first period, the view of a really eminent man, a distinguished scientist and man of letters. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z Don't you think "correspondent" rather a good generic term for "man of letters," from the point of view of the country-town newspaper reader?... The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z I doubt if it had heard of George Boker as a man of letters, though it knew him politically and also socially, as he had not lost his interest in society and the Philadelphia Club. Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z His career as a man of letters extended over twenty years; and during the last eight his name was actually a household word. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z As a writer and man of letters, he achieved considerable popularity. Autobiography of Countess Tolstoy 2011-11-17T03:00:32.207Z Few of those who sought Arthur Macy for business information ever suspected that they were talking to a poet and man of letters. Poems 2011-11-14T03:00:17.707Z He defends his calling as a mere man of letters, a student of form and style, in short an artist. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z The second part of Faust forms a worthy close to the life of Germany’s greatest man of letters, who died in Weimar on the 22nd of March 1832. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z This is where he ceases to be a man of letters, and becomes downright journalistic. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z One of Mr. Stirling's pleasantest qualities was that he never remembered he was a man of letters. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z By him, it is probable, Dr Johnson was introduced to the late Earl of Chesterfield; a Minister, a man of letters, and a friend to merit. Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works 2011-10-18T02:00:19.057Z George S. Hillard, the elegant man of letters, was a familiar figure on the street. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z Finally, like Vinet, he was a man of letters and a penetrating critic of men and systems. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z But certainly, whether for king, priest, statesman, or man of letters, Paris and the provinces never before turned out in such vast multitudes. Victor Hugo: His Life and Works 2011-10-07T02:00:23.887Z The next letter contains a brief allusion to an affair, which in the life of any other man of letters would have deserved to be considered as of some consequence. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z He was all his days a man of letters, and an analysis of his writings is his best biography. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 8 "Germany" to "Gibson, William" 2011-10-05T02:00:17.763Z He is best described, not as a philosopher, a man of letters, a poet, but as a seer. Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 2011-10-15T02:00:25.820Z For a man of letters it was an extraordinary thing. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z This circumstance I learn from a note written at my request, after some conversation on the subject, by Mirza Mohammed Saleh, of Shiraz, a very ingenious and well-informed young man of letters. Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship 2011-09-12T02:00:27.807Z Chaucer thus shared the tastes and the aptitudes of the good ordinary man of letters. Medieval English Literature Home University of Modern Knowledge #43 2011-09-09T02:00:56.970Z Coques was a man of letters, and presided over the Chamber of Rhetoric in his native city, Antwerp. The Standard Galleries - Holland 2011-09-06T02:00:08.153Z Dupont, who had driven the truck, was a mechanic; of the other two, one was a man of letters, the other an eminent scientist. The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 2011-08-29T02:01:02.680Z All this is a great pity, for Rabelais excites in the minds of most people a greater curiosity than perhaps any other medi�val man of letters that the world has known. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z As poet, novelist, journalist, orator and dramatist, he deserves the remark of Rebello da Silva: “Garrett was not a man of letters only but an entire literature in himself.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z But, as I have said, Gibbon was a man of fashion as well as a man of letters. Res Judicat? Papers and Essays 2011-08-24T02:00:18.157Z "Between us personally," he says, "no enmity arose; we were often together; he was a man of letters, had seen much of the world, and was very entertaining and pleasing in conversation." Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z America has sent us many good things, gold, silver, sugar, indigo, &c; but you are the first philosopher, and indeed the first great man of letters for whom we are beholden to her. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z They scented a man of letters in him, and hated him because he might rob them of the reputation they enjoyed in the small circle. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z Sea Hero was owned by Paul Mellon, a man of letters, a philanthropist, an art connoisseur and a sportsman of the kind that are rare these days. Postcard From Saratoga Springs: Horseflesh and High Society 2011-08-12T03:00:33Z What more different than a physician, a man of letters, a soldier, a merchant? Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z Franklin was not a conscious man of letters at all, and is not to be judged by such academic standards. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z It is a remarkable fact that more than one celebrated man of letters has accepted this exquisite parody as a serious intrusion by Franklin into a reformatory field for which he was unfitted. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z To the man of letters, therefore, the pipe is a sovereign remedy. Nicotiana Or The Smoker's and Snuff-Taker's Companion 2011-07-29T02:00:29.353Z The only man who by any stretch of imagination seemed to have the making of a man of letters in him was this above-mentioned Liggins. Mathilde Blind 2011-07-27T02:00:25.473Z The father of Stuntz is a Swiss—a man of letters, an enthusiast, a philosopher, an artist; in short, a most extraordinary and eccentric character. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. I (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:11.383Z Franklin, as Hume truly said, was the first great man of letters, for whom Great Britain was beholden to America, and, among his writings, are some that will always remain classics. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume II (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:39.793Z As a man of letters, I say the same thing. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 4, September 1893 2011-07-21T02:00:22.737Z The man of letters viewing the situation from his own point, will, of course, feel less intensely the mischiefs entailed by the error; but the error will be to him no less evident. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z In the autumn of 1920, Knut Hamsun received from the hand of the Swedish king the greatest formal recognition that can come to any man of letters, the Nobel Prize for literature. Knut Hamsun 2011-07-18T02:00:21.927Z The first biography of Christ by a great man of letters since Renan’s. The Reform of Education 2011-07-18T02:00:21.207Z He became a Bohemian man of letters, but the only work by which he will be remembered is the Song to David, the history of which is sufficiently remarkable. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Everett, however, is known rather as a man of letters than as a diplomat. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z That remarkable man of letters was Zanardini, a descendant of one of the greatest families of Venice. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z One night at a club I asked Brander Matthews if I should introduce him to a second-rate English man of letters who had been made a guest of the evening. Recollections of a Varied Life 2011-07-14T02:00:11.837Z Never, therefore has a man of letters had a better claim to be judged by his works. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z Bishop Blougram is a bon vivant, a man of letters, of fastidious taste and of courtly manners—a typical Renaissance prince of the Church, in fact. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Theodoric had as his minister or secretary of state a member of the Roman nobility, the most cultivated man of letters of the time, Cassiodorus. The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation 2011-07-06T02:00:51.053Z Our reception by our royal host was charming in its simplicity and his conversation was that of an eminent man of letters, erudite but unpretentious. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z He is a wonderful man, or rather a wonderful man of letters. Hania 2011-07-04T02:00:18.053Z And not only did he obey his own labour-laws, but in the details of his work as a man of letters he spared no pains and no exercise of self-control. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z How it happened that a man of letters, and not undistinguished by his genius, adopted a mechanical profession, we may account for from the exigencies of the time. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z We see then that a large popular audience, the majority with little time, little money and little culture, is the environment in which the man of letters in these days has to live. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Georgette Leblanc, later the wife of that great man of letters Maeterlinck. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z Ascham, therefore, as a result of his humanistic training, became not only the first English man of letters, but also the first English classicist. A History of Literary Criticism in the Renaissance With special reference to the influence of Italy in the formation and development of modern classicism 2011-05-30T02:00:13.147Z Racine assuredly cannot be compared with Corneille for dramatic genius; he is more the man of letters; he has not the tragic soul; he neither loves nor understands politics and war. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z Joseph Joubert presents the singular case of a man of letters living to a good old age, whose published literary work, and, therefore, whose literary fame, are wholly posthumous. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z Probably no born man of letters ever cherished such contempt, or ever submitted to be a writer of prose without some regret that he could not be a poet. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Though he did not consider himself a man of letters, Franklin was throughout his long life a writer. Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) 2011-05-20T02:00:26.573Z His works abound in materials for the future artist and man of letters, and will on this account continue to be read when the greater portion of the popular literature of the day is forgotten. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:14.897Z As a man of letters, Judge Story's rank will be still lower. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 2011-05-18T02:00:11.200Z Accordingly, parting from Irving, about the year 1822, the younger Scot of Annandale, deliberately embraced the alternative open to him, and became a general man of letters. Life of Robert Burns 2011-05-11T02:00:21.043Z His plays are the closet studies of a cultured man of letters, who knew little and cared little about the conditions of the stage. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z He was a man of letters, had seen much of the world, and was very entertaining and pleasing in conversation. Franklin's Autobiography (Eclectic English Classics) 2011-05-20T02:00:26.573Z His income from books is much ampler, I believe, than the income of any other man of letters, obtained from the same source, in America. E.P. Roe: Reminiscences of his Life 2011-05-05T02:00:19.377Z This is, indeed, what we require in the history or the autobiography of an artist, whether painter or musician or man of letters. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Nor does he, like Ariosto, appear before us as a courtier accomplished in the arts of flattery, or as a man of letters anxious above all things to refine his style. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Except Johnson, there is no English man of letters so well depicted as Scott. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z I know another man, an American man of letters, who went off at his own expense at the time of the German advance in Poland to help the Polish refugees. The United States and the War 2011-04-01T02:00:33.633Z "But does not this book take notice of some other nations?" demanded the man of letters. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Lord Wolseley was not prominent before the world as a man of letters, and I shall not pretend that he could claim that particular distinction, though he wrote easily and well. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z It is as a man of letters that he comes before us in this chapter. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Samuel Wilberforce, Bishop of Oxford, deserves a passing mention, though he was more remarkable as a man of affairs than as a man of letters. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Mr. Dyson was a man of letters, and an unhappy instance of talents misapplied. The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z This man of letters always fled from crowds; he understood human nature, availed himself of his knowledge, and imparted it to others with great discretion. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z As a matter of fact, he turned instantly to a new sphere of action, and became the man of letters of whom I propose to speak in these pages. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The father, Dean Buckland, was distinguished as a man of letters, and for his geological research. Famous Men of Science 2011-03-08T03:00:49.717Z He was a man of letters by necessity rather than by choice. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Before he became an economist, a statesman, a man of letters, a scientist, he had embraced scientific deism, primarily impelled by Newtonianism. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Thou hast read very despicable performances," said the man of letters; "but in all times, in all countries, and in all kinds of literature, the bad swarm and the good are rare. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z He was certainly the most eminent man of letters in the assembly, and the others supposed him to be more independent than he really was. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z As a man of letters he has made his mark. Forty Years of 'Spy' 2011-03-04T03:00:57.237Z Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield, was the man of letters most closely related in spirit and methods to Lytton; but even from the beginning his ambition was for eminence in the state. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z In the mind of Erasmus there was no metaphysical inclination; he was a man of letters, with a general tendency to rational views on every subject which came under his pen. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z It would not be easy to name a character more utterly unlike his than Wordsworth—a man of letters pure and simple, if we are ever to find one. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z Jean Chapelain was not merely an active man of letters, he was the man of letters pure and simple. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z He cheered and comforted his compatriots with the thought that in him they possessed a man of letters whom Europe recognized as the peer of Scott, Byron, and Goethe. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z It is surely not necessary even for a clever Norwegian man of letters in a realistic social drama, to make quite such a fool of himself as all that. Mr Punch's Pocket Ibsen - A Collection of Some of the Master's Best Known Dramas 2011-02-19T03:01:38.583Z He was more than this; he was the “man of letters”—the first who had appeared in Europe since the fall of the Roman empire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z That was when he had become the man of letters pure and simple. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z S�risay cannot have been a man of letters of much force, since his works, to the end of time, consisted of half a tragedy, which he could never finish. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z The result has been a portrait of a man of letters more alive at the present time than that which any other age or nation has bequeathed to us. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z The man of letters comprehends part, guesses the rest, gives an opinion, proposes an alteration, and finishes with “leave it to me.” The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z When the war is over will be time enough to consider the prospects of a superannuated man of letters. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z I have no wish to assail any man of letters, be his foibles what they may. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z Among all these young men, there was one old man, and he too, like Chapelain, was an authentic man of letters. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Chaucer was the only English man of letters before 616 the 16th century who knew Italian literature. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z “Be quite easy,” replied the valet, with a smile; “it is the mule of the secretary, a grave man of letters.” The Betrothed From the Italian of Alessandro Manzoni 2011-02-05T03:00:14.863Z The period was one of relative idleness, yet by no means of rest; and although whatever he produced during it was in verse, its close found the transition accomplished, from poet to man of letters. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z What real man of letters that ever ventured into the arid and somewhat vulgar domain of Party-politics has not felt the same feeling of revulsion, the same longing for the water-brooks? The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z If there was one other representative man of letters eligible, and yet omitted from that list, my memory is at fault. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Bret Harte was removed in July, and another man of letters, Mr. Frank Underwood of Boston, reigned in his stead. The Life of Bret Harte With Some Account of the California Pioneers 2011-01-14T03:00:47.427Z The greatest loss in individual brain-power which Ireland suffered was through the death of that brilliant man of letters and economist, Lieutenant T.M. The Irish on the Somme Being a Second Series of 'The Irish at the Front' 2011-01-12T03:00:32.843Z But it was in Ireland itself that Moore found himself fêted and honoured with a kind of welcome such as seldom has been accorded to any man of letters. Thomas Moore 2011-01-14T03:00:51.040Z The man of letters promised to assist her in the preparation of the work. Sentimental Education Vol 1 2011-01-04T03:01:07.467Z In 1634 Balzac was thirty-seven years of age and by far the most prominent man of letters in France. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z My people are declining; soon, as a man of letters once said, the rust of our departed glory will corrode us and reduce us to the dust into which our empire has dwindled. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Verlaine, the man of letters and poet according to program, is a hateful shadow limping behind his great works. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z His reputation, however, is that of a lawyer, a statesman and a man of letters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z This popularity of intelligence gives a great advantage to the man of letters, who is also a man. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons, Volume 3 (of 3) 2010-12-20T17:11:42.357Z "A cucumber should be carefully dressed with salt and pepper, and then thrown out the window as good for nothing," declared Samuel Johnson, Britain's 18th century man of letters. On Twitter, Foodies Need to Spice It Up 2010-08-24T08:30:00Z When a radio presenter challenged Putin to respond, the premier unexpectedly praised top_lap for being "open, direct" and "a man of letters". Vladimir Putin bans grain exports as drought and wildfires ravage crops 2010-08-05T17:35:00Z Later, as “man of letters,” he unfortunately exaggerated this as well as every other of his unique characteristics, in an idle exhibitionism, and made literary use of them. Paul Verlaine 2010-12-28T03:00:19.670Z He was a distinguished man of letters and made a significant contribution to British public life. 'Loss' felt as Michael Foot dies 2010-03-03T13:42:00Z Imagination is sometimes a very valuable quality in practical affairs, and this neat description by the man of letters was actually carried out in every detail and with complete success by his agent in America. The True Benjamin Franklin In addition to all these qualifications the writer should be a man of letters, able to write with interest of that which he has seen. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open In spite of the charm of the country, to any real man of letters or affairs, the fascination of Rome was irresistible. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius He was rather a man of letters than a poet, and his poems are devoid of inspiration. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis He was born in Camaguey on April 13, 1849, and in early life adopted the career of a man of letters in addition to serving the public in political matters. The History of Cuba, vol. 4 He was a fine specimen of humanity, this "man of letters," whose grey hairs and rugged features witnessed to a long and possibly active life. Glories of Spain But Behmen never uses words in this merely literary way, being indeed in nowise a man of letters. Dialogues on the Supersensual Life In both writers we meet the same grumbling of the needy client against insolent or niggardly patrons, the complaints of the struggling man of letters about the extravagant rewards of low vulgar impostors. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius It is unworthy of so distinguished a man of letters. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" It delighted her to remember how frankly she had talked to him, even though she knew he was a most distinguished man of letters, critic and essayist. Cinderella Jane There lies the Post Office," said our man of letters, "and that is my destination. Glories of Spain Mr. Gladstone's preparation to become a man of letters was extensive. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 The Grub Street man of letters in those days despised plodding industry because he dearly loved fits of idleness; he hated wealth because he was poor. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius He was a warm friend of literature and art, and in a private station would have achieved high distinction as a man of letters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 2 "Bohemia" to "Borgia, Francis" Edward Dowden, my father’s old friend, with his dark romantic face, the one man of letters Dublin Unionism possessed, was withering in that barren soil. The Trembling of the Veil It was plainly the library of a student and man of letters. The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop Gosse is a good example of the cultivated man of letters who fitted himself thoroughly for his profession, though lacking the formal scholastic drill of the university. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 Nor is the man of letters at all more independent, who flatters the democracy in a democratic age, than he who flattered the aristocracy when they had all the prizes to bestow. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus The hero may be a prophet, or a man of letters. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII A distinguished English man of letters asked me to call with him on Stanislas de Gaeta because he did not dare go alone to that mysterious house. Per Amica Silentia Lunae And this nineteenth century man of letters was but echoing the words which fell from the lips of those prophets in the eighth century before Christ. Five Young Men Messages of Yesterday for the Young Men of To-day As a poet and man of letters, Gottschall possesses unusual gifts, and is a writer of most extraordinary activity. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 From across the table, a clever critic and man of letters was listening with pleased amusement. Shadows of Flames A Novel The poet and the man of letters dwindled in Gozzi, but the man of business survived. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second Professor James, like his brother, Henry James the novelist, was a man of letters. The Complete Club Book for Women Including Subjects, Material and References for Study Programs; together with a Constitution and By-Laws; Rules of Order; Instructions how to make a Year Book; Suggestions for Practical Community Work; a Resume of what Some Clubs are Doing, etc., etc. It forms the most valuable record we possess of the daily life of a scholar, or man of letters, of the 16th century. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" It seems as though a full-grown experienced man of letters might engage to turn out 'Treasure Island' at so many pages a day, and keep his pipe alight. 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. The Mosses from an Old Manse must ever be famous as the history of the quiet hours of the greatest American man of letters. Harper's Round Table, July 16, 1895 They had, indeed, been preceded by an eccentric man of letters, the Abbé de Saint-Pierre, who occupied his life in propounding Utopian schemes of universal peace and general prosperity. A Short History of French Literature The struggle in his own case was between the scholar and the man of letters, in which the scholar eventually won possession of the field. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 He was not only a soldier, but a man of letters, and one familiar with courts as well as camps. The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving For Young Persons and for the Use of Schools On their way prudential considerations again beset the man of business, and he stopped the man of letters to speak of their wards' inexperience. Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. To show that he is a man of letters. The Handbook of Conundrums For some thirty years, from 1810 to 1840, Chateaubriand was unquestionably the greatest man of letters of France in the estimation of his contemporaries. A Short History of French Literature You see it all around—the dark chooses the light, the tall chooses the short, the fat chooses the thin, the brilliant woman marries a sportsman, the man of letters a gentle house-frau. Lady Cassandra I ought here to mention the name of an eminent man of letters, whose loss must be deeply deplored in all literary circles. Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 The most renowned Spanish dramatist at the opening of the 20th century was the veteran politician and man of letters J. Echegaray. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Lomonosoff acquired reputation as a scientist and a man of letters even in western Europe. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Nevertheless Chateaubriand, if not a very great man, was a very great man of letters. A Short History of French Literature He practiced his profession with diligence; but mind and heart were inviting him to the life and career of a man of letters; and he was every day sacrificed to duty, as he esteemed it. Caxton's Book: A Collection of Essays, Poems, Tales, and Sketches. The “last eminent man of letters who was a professed pagan” in the western empire was Claudius Claudianus. A History of Rome to 565 A. D. “Mr. Gosse has written an admirable and most interesting biography of a man of letters who is of particular interest to other men of letters.” Elizabethan England From 'A Description of England,' by William Harrison He had been a surgeon in the English navy; was a man of letters and science; in his profession well-skilled and successful; sagacious in business; of a humorous fancy; and fond of wild sports. History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia In his quality of man of letters he began with extravagant praise of Eros, whom he called the mightiest of all gods, the chief minister of happiness. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern I shall keep on the straight line marked out for me; I am born and bred a man of letters. Waldfried A Novel The young American man of letters, like his fellow in France, may feel that a literary début is not truly made until his drama has been seen and heard, as well as read. How to See a Play Madame Roland had at her orders a man of letters, salaried by the Ministry of the Interior, who was the official defender of the minister and his policy. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty He turned out to be an Italian man of letters and refugee, on the verge of starvation. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Thus, with such aids, the man of letters of to-day—living in a whirl of movement and discovery—clothes himself in the handwriting of the Venetian scholar as deliberately as the Norwegian dons a bear-skin. The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. From this time on, Dryden appears more and more in the public eye, and slowly but steadily forged his way to the front as the representative man of letters of his time. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 He loved his studies for their own sake, and never did a man of letters work less for personal ends. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition Not a bad idea for a man of letters. Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 Destined by nature to be a man of letters, he poured forth verse and prose during the whole time he was studying and practising law. Children's Stories in American Literature, 1660-1860 The chief of industry and the man of letters stand to-day in the same relation to each other and to mankind as the baron and bishop of the Middle Ages. The Intellectual Life Hardly known to this generation save by 'The Culprit Fay' and 'The American Flag,' Drake was essentially a true poet and a man of letters. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 Though his claim to eminence as a man of letters is not to be gainsaid, he was not, in the finer distinction, a literary man. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 In his well-known Ingersoll lecture that distinguished physician and graceful man of letters comes to the conclusion that we do not and never can know whether there is a future life or not. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 Literally a man of letters, he left ten books of his "Epistles," which he himself collected—probably even wrote with a view to publication—and their fluent charm still pleases the taste of the reader. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 4 June 1906 Another distinguished man of letters who never entered the bonds of matrimony was Horace Walpole. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 He was to run the career of a man of letters, and in a country hardly ripe for literary production. Memoir of Jared Sparks, LL.D. He was a great scientist, a great philosopher, a great inventor, a great man of letters, a great business man. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 The Memoirs, to which Commines owes his reputation as a statesman and man of letters, were written during his latter years. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" In his youth he had written very pretty verses, and his style was that of an accomplished man of letters. The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun A mystic from his cradle, Swedenborg blossomed first as a man of letters and a poet and won considerable popularity in Stockholm and throughout Sweden. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 If polite learning is undervalued by the mere man of science, it is perhaps over-rated by the mere man of letters. Coelebs In Search of a Wife His reputation as a man of letters rests upon his journalistic work, essays, and correspondence, and his unique autobiography. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 Maybe Lydia had her betters; Anyway, this man of letters Took that charmer as his pick. Second Book of Verse Although Bradford made slight pretence of being a man of letters, he is remembered as one who loved to foster literature. Literary New York Its Landmarks and Associations The laughter of a man of letters should be inoffensive: it should be rather the laughter enhancing the merit of the person he laughs at, than a depreciating, or self-conceited laughter. Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America "Do ye remember the names that ye used to gie ane anither?" inquired the man of letters, with a look of importance, which showed that the history of the whole class was forthcoming. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 But he was a man of letters; and perhaps a greater one than is usually thought. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) In Lothair he attacked, under a thin disguise, a distinguished man of letters who had criticised his conduct years before. Studies in Contemporary Biography He was not so much a scientific scholar as a keen and brilliant man of letters and a widely influential apostle of humanism. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" Because not all the immortal writers had passed an unblemished life, shall we say that virtue is not the essential mover in a man of letters? Why a National Literature Cannot Flourish in the United States of North America Stevenson’s life has become a tradition only ten years after his death; he has taken his place among the heroes, the bravest man of letters since Johnson and Lamb. Optimism An Essay It is somewhat staggering to find that Scott, the greatest Tory man of letters who had strong political sympathies, and Fox, the greatest Whig politician who had keen literary tastes, enjoyed his long poems enthusiastically. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Only one other man of letters hath here even distant fellowship with him, and this is Ralph Waldo Emerson. Lectures on Russian Literature Pushkin, Gogol, Turgenef, Tolstoy Literature was, then, considered as an inevitable evil, but one from which the world wanted to free itself; and every man of letters seemed to be under suspicion. Contemporary Russian Novelists There is not much that needs be told—not much, indeed, that can be told—in the life of a man of letters like Captain Mayne Reid. The Boy Slaves But he was very different from ordinary schoolmasters, for he was a scholar and a man of letters; he was consequently very poor. Orientations It may almost be said that from that day to his death he was the foremost—he was certainly, with the exception of Byron, the most popular—man of letters in Great Britain. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Indifferent visitors, who might be and often were intruders, were but seldom admitted at that modest gate; but Daniel Thwaite was at once shown into the presence of the man of letters. Lady Anna Nevertheless, Carlyle had one positive gift that the younger generation is perhaps not very well qualified to appreciate, he was an extraordinarily capable man of letters. Pot-Boilers To do this we must separate Thackeray the artist from Thackeray the man of letters. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. I know not how a former poet-laureat, Mr. Pye, managed; another man of letters who was fain to accept a situation of this kind. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. A practical and active politician, and a constant figure in society, he was also a very considerable man of letters. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) If Macaulay had not been known as a great man of letters he would probably have been known as a great orator. Home Life of Great Authors He tries business for a short time; the sea for an even shorter; and then he settles down in the country to a life of study and composition: he will be a man of letters. Pot-Boilers The admiration which we have for Thackeray the man of letters, and the way in which we have already expressed that admiration, render it unlikely that the drift of these remarks will be misunderstood. English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. It concerns the person just mentioned, who is a man of letters. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. He was at least as remarkable for general as for special learning, and if not actually a great man of letters, had a knowledge of literature rivalled by few of his contemporaries. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) The French painter's remark that 'he was more like one of the old Dutch admirals we see in picture galleries than a man of letters,' conveyed an admirably true idea to his friends. Home Life of Great Authors It is at least certain that he did not put his conscience out to market, and that his reward came in the form of the vilest calumny ever visited upon a man of letters. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature He had in 1819 come up to Paris from Touraine, in which province his family lived, to seek his fortune as a man of letters. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 The reader is here presented with a minute picture of those invisible occupations which pass in the study of a man of letters. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 To a certain extent, indeed, this undervaluation is justified, and Scott himself, who was more free from literary vanity than any man of letters of whom we have record, pleaded guilty again and again. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) In the old manor-house of Elmwood in Cambridge, close to what is now mount Auburn Cemetery, our finest representative man of letters, James Russell Lowell, was born and bred. Home Life of Great Authors To the uninitiated, the term either conveys no meaning at all; or, if your hearer is a man of letters, it conveys to him an idea which you have at once to explain away. In the School-Room Chapters in the Philosophy of Education A battle at the polls brought out all which was most characteristic in the Englishmen of the times, and to describe such a conflict was naturally the aim of many a man of letters. By-ways in Book-land Short Essays on Literary Subjects To perform the 417 function of a man of letters it is not necessary to write; nay, it is perhaps better to be a living book. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) The mere man of letters may well sleep in the very centre of that busy civilisation from which he drew his inspiration: but not the poet—not, at least, the poet of these days. Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 You see, the man of letters fails to understand, after all, that life still likes to go on living, that it is not ashamed of living after it has been put into words and 'redeemed.' The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 He had enjoyed the social advantages of a popular and presentable man of letters, and he had met a variety of ladies; but he had never yet met anyone at all like Lady Harman. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman It is a subject that brings into play all those high faculties which make Mr. Belloc the most genuine man of letters now alive. Lavengro The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest It seems as though a full-grown experienced man of letters might engage to turn out “Treasure Island” at so many pages a day, and keep his pipe alight. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 16 (of 25) Nevertheless, although I am merely a man of letters, I have owned horses. My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 For if anything is capable of making a poet out of a man of letters, it is this plebeian love of mine for the human, living, and commonplace. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 In another moment an amiable though distinguished man of letters was in the hall interviewing the great entrepreneur. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Framlingham in our time has given London Mr. Jeaffreson, a successful man of letters, and Sir Henry Thompson, a still more successful surgeon. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations He was a man of letters; amongst the elect he was reckoned a master in his art. Berenice That is a pretentious word to be written down by a man of letters! My Private Menagerie from The Works of Theophile Gautier Volume 19 The man of letters well knew the ground upon which he was to tread, the danger of ambushed foes, involving such a brochure, and the caution necessary with which he was to produce his work. The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes And abruptly this unhappy man of letters turned from her and fled, the most grief-routed of creatures, whooping and sobbing along a narrow pathway through the trees. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman Besides all this, he was a "considerable man of letters." Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 “He is a recluse, a dilettante, and a very brilliant man of letters.” Berenice Here you have Longfellow as a child, as a college student, and as a professor in Bowdoin College; and especially does he appear here as a man of letters. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart In 1721, prior to the publication of his version, the poet had agreed to edit an edition of Shakespeare, a task as difficult as any which a man of letters can undertake. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) In his dream because he was a man of letters and a poet it was always a mule, never a train de luxe. The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman "This," says Professor Veitch, a philosopher, a scholar, and a man of letters, "though put with an almost sublime egotism, is in the main true." Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 Here I encountered another friend, a retiring man of letters, who lives apart from the world in dreams of his own. The Thread of Gold "He was a man of letters," said Anna, remembering the very words of Fräulein Kuhräuber's reply to her inquiries. The Benefactress The knavery is seen to some extent in his method of workmanship as a man of letters. The Age of Pope (1700-1744) Xenophon, an exile from his country, a brilliant soldier and adventurer as well as a man of letters, is perhaps the first Greek on record who openly lost interest in the city. Five Stages of Greek Religion But the ordinary man of letters, like the common run of readers, will continue to speak of Lord Bacon; for Bacon was his name, and the "Lord" was but a pretty feather in his hat. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) And what man of letters in England—a country abounding in "the oxen of the gods," strong, slow, and stupid—is free from his influence? Flowers of Freethought (First Series) But while the Patagonian naturalist secures recognition and is decorated, every jaunty man of letters feels at liberty to scoff at the liturgiologist as a laborious trifler. A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer Kelly's Post Office Directory, of course, is a necessity to every man of letters. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, February 8, 1890 It is a subject that brings into play all those high faculties which make Mr Belloc the most genuine man of letters now alive. Law and Laughter Precisely as with the individual artist or man of letters, we touch first of all upon certain temperamental inclinations. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures I am well aware that not being a literary man the presumptuous will think that they have the right to blame me on the ground that I am not a man of letters. Thoughts on Art and Life The life of a man of letters is seldom eventful. Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition If the reader is anxious to pursue the investigation further, he will doubtless find that there is scarcely a famous man of letters who made his mark at school or university. The Curse of Education No man probably, certainly no man of letters, is more of a piece than he. Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series Though the Rector had also spent whole afternoons at the feet of that man of letters, he now failed to notice tio Gori at all. Mayflower (Flor de mayo) A Tale of the Valencian Seashore A man of letters at present, whose works are valuable, is perfectly sensible of their value. Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges But Harmen, his means allowing the luxury, decided to make of his fifth son a man of letters and learning, and Rembrandt was sent to the University of Leyden. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Carlyle, like many another famous man of letters, had little Latin and less Greek. The Curse of Education But, though he did not write for the critics, Leamy was in spite of himself a man of letters. Irish Fairy Tales He was for a good many years the obscurest man of letters in America. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 As to poodles and pugs, it is difficult for the masculine "man of letters" to write. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 Nothing would have more amazed him while he lived than to hear himself called a man of letters; but this age has produced few greater writers. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index The world already began to speak of Petrarch as a rising man of letters. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History To find the aggregate of numbers, a machine is in universal use, from the man of letters, to the meanest shopman behind his counter. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton As a man of letters and a sedulous inquirer, no French author enjoys higher reputation. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 Under these circumstances Cicero consented to live at Rome, or in the neighborhood, and became a man of letters. The Life of Cicero Volume II. He named certain individuals, especially one man of letters, his friend, the best mind he knew, whom London had well served. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IX (of X) - America - I Washington Irving, the first American who obtained a European reputation merely as a man of letters, was born at New York, April 3, 1783. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History Thence, perhaps, he turned up towards the Argiletum, with something of that instinct which takes a modern man of letters to his publisher's when he is in the neighbourhood. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome As a man of letters, as a lawyer, a man of the world, and a statesman, he is beyond any criticism of mine. Pioneers of Science You allude to a late sale in Pall Mall, of one of the choicest and most elegant libraries ever collected by a man of letters and taste? Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance N. Y. It is a book of solid value, such as a clear-headed business man will appreciate, yet it is such a book as only an accomplished man of letters could write. Our Italy If you had asked who was the first man of letters, he would have been named by all. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History Even as a man of letters, he occupies no inconsiderable place. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 They are the ideas of a brilliant man of letters, writing in an age when scientific research was almost unknown, about a subject in which he was an amateur. Pioneers of Science In many ways they were simple folk, and, like all simple folk, they loved to be told stories, and �sop prided himself upon being something of a man of letters, a philosopher, and an historian. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama There is, perhaps, no man of letters, no man of science, of whom the world possesses so unsatisfactory an account as Jerome Cardan. Notes and Queries, Number 231, April 1, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Macaulay further points out that Cotton seems, from his Angler, to have found room for his whole library in his hall window; and Cotton was a man of letters. The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books George Wither was its first commander, and his command did not increase his reputation either as a man of letters or a man of war. Highways and Byways in Surrey Professor Snaer is also a man of letters, a litt�rateur; and in such matters, as well as those of music, much deference is paid to his judgment by his contemporaries. Music and Some Highly Musical People "See what a difference the presence of a distinguished man of letters makes," laughed Lady Thurwell. The New Tenant He was determined to be a man of letters. History of Education Temple was a man of the world among men of letters, a man of letters among men of the world.—Macaulay: Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature It is redolent of the medical studies which the author actually pursued, between his abandonment of preparation for the Church and his settling down as a man of letters. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century Erasmus, however, is not its only man of letters. Holland, v. 1 (of 2) By E. Lawrence Dudley Benjamin Franklin As a statesman, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, and man of letters, Benjamin Franklin was the foremost American of his time. Lafayette Though many high offices in the Church, and many positions in universities, were offered to him, he refused them all, preferring to be an independent man of letters. History of Education "I, Celio Malespini, Secretary to his Excellency, the Grand Duke, a man of letters who has tried his quill in sundry other fields, as well." Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) The English author, therefore, as such, had not the bitterness of a French man of letters, unless, indeed, he had the misfortune to be an uncompromising revolutionist. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. Panizzi, furious at being described as a respectable official, declared that he could not allow the library to be pulled about by an unknown man of letters. Lectures on the French Revolution But though no man of letters has ever had, in some ways, such a fancy for business, no man of business could ever come out of such a born man of letters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Between 1639 and 1643, or for the brief space of four years, it is clear that he was a busy man of letters. A History of Elizabethan Literature Short handbooks on great subjects are among the most difficult tasks that a man of letters can undertake, and Mr Strachey is to be congratulated on his courage and success. William Shakespeare Telford, the Eskdale shepherd, was a man of literary taste, and was especially friendly with the typical man of letters, Southey. The English Utilitarians, Volume I. And last night I heard it expounded very seriously, by a clever man of letters, that Carlyle’s day is done. Waiting for Daylight Bain's life was mainly that of a thinker and a man of letters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" But Milton was a politician as well as a poet, a fanatic as well as a man of letters of seldom equalled, and never, save in two or three cases, surpassed powers. A History of Elizabethan Literature When he became the man of letters, and ceased the irregular, unmethodical life of the reporter, his mornings were invariably spent at his desk. My Father as I Recall Him His eye lighted on Lucas, who is a natural adept as a man of the world though a man of letters. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York On my way home, thinking of that grave man of letters and of his serious and attentive listeners, I noticed even the street lights were lowered or doused, and remembered that every wine-shop was shut. Waiting for Daylight Voltaire is much more than a man of letters. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations When Carlyle wrote and lectured on Heroes and Hero Worship, he would have made no mistake in selecting one of his contemporary countrymen as a fine example of the man of letters as hero. Stories of Authors, British and American Yet he remained the foremost man of letters in France. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Rubbish, of course; but rubbish necessary, yes, every empty bubble and scum and mess thereof, for the making of a great literary period—nay, of a great man of letters. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life He entered on a business career soon after leaving Liverpool College, but gave up commercial life to become a man of letters after five or six years. Modern British Poetry The serious man of letters was not easily led into paths of frivolity. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life He probably sacrificed his life to his conjunction of literature and politics: and he stood high as a minister of state in addition to his character as a man of letters. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II Russia lost her foremost man of letters at this period by the death of Count Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin, as the result of a duel. A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Francis I based his glory upon the patronage and encouragement which he accorded to learning, and Calvin, as a man of letters, merited consideration. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 He was the first scholar and man of letters to desert entirely the mediæval learning and lead his contemporaries back to a realization of the beauty and value of Greek and Roman literature. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe His appearance is epic; and he is the only existing entire man of letters. My Recollections of Lord Byron No man of letters, if he tried all night, could think anything so deliciously absurd. The Creators A Comedy Meditating thus, I frequently poke about the city in the end of afternoon "when the mind of your man of letters requires some relaxation." Chimney-Pot Papers It is upon this History of England from 1815 to 1880 that Sir Spencer Walpole's lasting reputation, as a man of letters, will rest. Studies in Literature and History Our modern life is dominated by the great cities, which not only are the center of commerce and manufacturing, but are the homes of the artist and man of letters. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe But from this time on he had no doubt of his calling; he had ceased to be a man about town, and become a man of letters. Washington Irving "Because he's so ungovernably a man of letters." The Creators A Comedy You did not know I was a man of letters, did you?' Fair Margaret A Portrait We have no quarrel with this account of the greatest man of letters of our generation. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 6: Harriet Martineau No other man of letters, unless it be Voltaire, has ever enjoyed such a European reputation during his lifetime. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe Southey, an ardent and impulsive man of letters, with no practical experience of the difficulties of social reform, has no patience for such inquiries. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill Such was the wandering and uncertain career of the scholar and man of letters of the sixteenth century. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets The mild English man of letters was momentarily turned into an avenging demon, breathing wrath and destruction upon his adversary. Fair Margaret A Portrait We have read the volume of the learned and accomplished professor with infinite satisfaction, and we can safely recommend it to the perusal of the student and the man of letters. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays "My brother is a member of our Government," wrote one illustrious man of letters, "and if I am not to get him into trouble I must hold my tongue." The Drama Of Three Hundred & Sixty-Five Days Scenes In The Great War It suggested the student, the man of letters, the lover of art. The Day of Judgment Jacques Arago is eminent in Paris not more for his abilities as a man of letters than for his fastidiousness, devotion, and success as a roué. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 "That is nothing!" said Ida; "you must be a member!" and she saw herself already in a corner on a reception-day, modestly and quietly dressed, as befitted the wife of a man of letters. Jack 1877 He demonstrates clearly that he is neither a scholar, a reader or a man of letters and very little of a gentleman. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays We all know Macaulay, a member of Parliament, a member of the Supreme Council of India, a cabinet minister, a historian of great merit, a brilliant man of letters. Historical Essays I told you I was a man of letters; it would, perhaps, be more correct to describe myself as a man of science.' The House of Souls His fame in literature has long been lost, in England, in his reputation as a politician; but in this country we know him only as rather a clever man of letters. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 He wrote from a full mind and with genuine inspiration, and lived and died a man of letters from pure love of letters and not of worldly gain. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 My only wonder is that those who hold this cloistral view of the province of a man of letters consider him worthy to pay income-tax. From a Cornish Window A New Edition Gibbon, writes Bury, is “the historian and the man of letters,” thus ranking with Thucydides and Tacitus. Historical Essays But he has also indisputable claims to a high rank as a man of letters. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 During the first half of the century he was primarily a man of letters; from about 1750 onwards he was the aggressive philosopher, the social reformer, using letters as the vehicle of militant ideas. A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. He published several very important treatises, which attracted the attention of Europe, and which gave him a high position, not merely as a man of letters, but as a statesman of profound views. Hortense Makers of History Series But the first is not more different from what we call a man of letters, or a writer, than the second is from what may deserve on the theatre, the name of principal dancer. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing The probability was, that within half a century there would not be a man of letters in the world; the reporter, the interviewer, would have taken possession. Renée Mauperin The election gives little satisfaction outside the Institute; but the Count is not without eminence as a man of letters. The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 A more modern one is by C. Kegan Paul, the London publisher, who was also a man of letters. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I As a biographer this variously accomplished man of letters was to show a gift that can almost be called unique. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) Unlike the typical man of letters—for he was without vanity—he did not abandon the cause of the Revolution because his suggestions were often repulsed. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet But let all that pass: I am supposed to be dealing with my subject as man of letters. Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman A sick man of letters never married into a family so well fitted to help him make the most of his powers. The Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson Claude De Crébillon, son of the well-known French poet of that name, and himself a man of letters of some merit, had been sent to the prison of St. Vincent on account of his writings. Chatterbox, 1906 He was at once a ferocious scoundrel, a clear-headed general, an adventurous politician, a careful administrator, a man of letters and of refined taste. Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals It was there that his best work was done, for, at bottom, Thoreau was a man of letters rather than a naturalist, with the most seeing eye man ever had. American Men of Mind The critic seemed to be taking away, one after another, our venerated master's claims as a poet, a man of letters, and a philosopher. Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman The fine and subtle understanding of Hartley Coleridge, his lively fancy, his literature, his easy play of mind, made him a more sympathetic companion for a man of letters than his great neighbour. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 7: W.R. Greg: A Sketch Only two or three times did the conversation rise to a pitch that kindled even the ready ardor of the young man of letters. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana Of the two it was certainly not the professed man of letters who was the greater lover of literature. Dr. Johnson and His Circle Such was the career of America's first successful man of letters. American Men of Mind For Emerson was essentially a prophet and theosophist, and not a man of letters, or creative artist. Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman And the modern man of letters seems to think that paganism and Christianity were at odds at all points. Confessions of a Book-Lover Distinguished though his naval activities have been, it is as a man of letters that Pierre Loti is known to the world. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure Sir Leslie Stephen remarked that nearly every distinguished man of letters of that time came into contact with Johnson. Dr. Johnson and His Circle Thoreau is easily our most extraordinary man of letters. American Men of Mind A cultivated man of letters, an admirable scholar, he was as free from pedantry as he was incapable of idleness. The History of "Punch" He had inquired for them everywhere and was told that he did not see them because he was a man of letters. The Squirrel-Cage It soon became plain to Warren Hastings that he was not going to make much of a livelihood either by Persian poetry or by the calling of a man of letters. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III Nor was Johnson ever, as we have seen, a mere narrow man of letters. Dr. Johnson and His Circle His early plays brought him at the outset little reputation as a man of letters. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Bunn was the theatrical and operatic manager and man of letters—or, rather, as the letters were so insignificant, the "man of notes." The History of "Punch" Is he a man of letters making fun of science? Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin He had the capacities of a statesman, he had the tastes of a man of letters, but he did not in any great degree possess the qualities that go to make a successful merchant. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III Seldom has the death of a man of letters created such a sense of loss either in the public at large or among his friends. Dr. Johnson and His Circle Shakespeare figured in Meres’s pages as the greatest man of letters of the day. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles If I had been called on to take up the pen of that most brilliant man of letters, I should have been in despair. The History of "Punch" For a long time to come Erasmus considered himself, and also introduced himself, as a poet and an orator, by which latter term he meant what we call a man of letters. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation Long years later, another man of letters, hungry, homeless, and friendless, sick almost unto death, found a kind friend and gentle nurse in a woman of the streets. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III No man of letters—perhaps scarcely even Shakespeare himself—is so often quoted in the columns of the daily press. Dr. Johnson and His Circle It is clear that we can only accept Turgot's preference, on condition that the man of letters is engaged on work that seriously advances social interests and adds something to human stature. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot More than one man of letters, including Marivaux, was indebted to him for a yearly pension, and his house was as open to the philosophic tribe as Holbach’s. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. For many years to come Erasmus can, without suspicion of hypocrisy, at pleasure, as his interests or his moods require, play the man of letters or the theologian. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation Goldsmith himself is the lovable type of a class that was often unlovely in the eighteenth century, the needy man of letters. A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III It has sometimes been asserted to be the function of the man of letters to say what others can feel or think but only he can express. Dr. Johnson and His Circle I was invited to an excellent dinner by a well-known man of letters I had never met before. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 So the curtain fell upon this strange tragi-comedy of a man of letters. Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. |
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