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• No literary or Labour people. (8)
• What literary work did he do? (3)
• Anybody but a literary man would. (9)
• Such literary craft is of the nursery. (10)
• Both had a literary bent; neither wore a hat. (8)
• I liked the absolutely literary keeping of their lives. (9)
• His Comedy of incredible imbroglio belongs to the literary section. (10)
• We literary folk try to believe that it does, but that is all nonsense. (9)
• If it had any literary influence with me the influence must have been good. (9)
• My nearest literary neighbor, when we lived in Sacramento Street, was the Rev. (9)
• It attacked all literary shams but its own, and it made itself felt and feared. (9)
• Which is our chief literary centre, however, I am not, after all, ready to say. (9)
• In respect of literary art, pragmatism is right: there is no truth, there are truths. (16)
• That would forestall the criticism that there are too many literary periodicals already. (9)
• It was not his fault that their venture proved of such slight return in literary material. (9)
• Publishers of magazines lament that readers do not care for articles on literary subjects. (16)
• Still, I think that it was now that I began to have a literary sense of what I was reading. (9)
• But he was then a distinct literary figure, and not to be left out of the count of our poets. (9)
• I had done all I could, and was hoping that the literary notices would make up for the rest. (14)
• In any matter that concerned literary morals he was more than eager to profit by another eye. (9)
• The literary man has certainly no complaint to make of the newspaper man, generally speaking. (9)
• Literary absenteeism, it seems to me, is not peculiarly an American vice or an American virtue. (9)
• The writer was created for popularity, had he chosen to bring his art into our literary market. (10)
• I am rather more confident about the decline of another literary species, namely, the light essay. (9)
• My facts go to show that the literary spirit is the true world-citizen, and is at home everywhere. (9)
• Nor is the literary disguise, as a rule, of such great consequence, or so difficult to penetrate. (16)
• The literary dose was a strong one for her; but she saw the index, and got a lift from the sound. (10)
• She met and talked with interesting people, and now and then she got introduced to literary people. (9)
• The hymns to Russia, intoned by wayfaring literary men and observers, began seriously to bore her. (12)
• There journalism desired to be literary, and here literature has to try hard not to be journalistic. (9)
• She never says anything that you can remember; nothing in flashes or ripples; nothing the least literary. (9)
• Two-thirds of the magazines are made up of material which, however excellent, is without literary quality. (9)
• One might easily fall into the pit of panegyric by an enumeration of his qualities, personal and literary. (10)
• I do not know whether Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Stetson wrecked a literary centre in leaving Los Angeles or not. (9)
• But none of the passions are reasoned, and I do not try to account for my literary preferences or to justify them. (9)
• She knew, and thinking differently in the matter of literary fame, she flushed, and, ashamed of the flush, frowned. (10)
• Where Congreve excels all his English rivals is in his literary force, and a succinctness of style peculiar to him. (10)
• As I was dealing with a scholarly one, I made use of such ornamental literary skill as I possessed, to prove urgency. (10)
• In circles falsely literary, parrot talk and affectation hold sway, but the talkers have an absurd faith in one another. (16)
• It is known that the King of Italy offered Longfellow the cross of San Lazzaro, which is the Italian literary decoration. (9)
• This included the literary notices and the book reviews, and I am afraid that I at once gave my prime attention to these. (9)
• Still the market for his wares is steadier than the market for any other kind of literary wares, and the prices are better. (9)
• But in whatever she did she left the stamp of a talent like no other, and of a personality disdainful of literary environment. (9)
• I could touch science at Cambridge only on its literary and social side, of course, and my meetings with Agassiz were not many. (9)
• Mr. John Hay, Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, and Mr. Henry Cabot Lodge are Republican politicians, as well as recognized literary men. (9)
• Mr. Parker was born near Boston, in 1863; his father was an architect, his mother a woman of fine literary and musical culture. (3)
• The literary champion of the new order of things has been Luigi Torchi, whose work in the magazines deserves the highest praise. (3)
• I was not fit for work in the printing- office, but that was a simpler matter than the literary work that was always tempting me. (9)
• The success of Zola as a literary man has its imperfections, its phases of defeat, but his success as a humanist is without flaw. (9)
• From the nature of the case, however, they could work no change; most of them were literary men who could criticise but not create. (3)
• Emma knew she must have seen in the library a row of her literary ventures, exquisitely bound; but there was no allusion to the books. (10)
• I drifted about with him in his gondola, and refreshed myself, long a-hungered for such talk, with his talk of literary life in London. (9)
• V. I speak of this one and that, as it happens, and with no thought of giving a complete prospect of literary Boston thirty years ago. (9)
• However, I do not imagine that it was a very smiling time for any literary endeavorer at home in the life-and-death civil war then waging. (9)
• Dropping southward from New York, now, we find ourselves in a literary centre of importance at Philadelphia, since that is the home of Mr. J. (9)
• But then the West was almost an unknown quality in our literary problem; and in fact there was scarcely any literature outside of New England. (9)
• The Constitution guarantees us all equality before the law, but the law-makers seem to have forgotten this in the case of our literary industry. (9)
• I arrived in Boston, however, when all talents had more or less a literary coloring, and when the greatest talents were literary. (9)
• Yet when temperament and taste are present, there is no position in which the aspirant for a place in the literary field has greater opportunity. (16)
• It is this fine literary sense, penetrating even to a supposititious occasion, which clings to the ode and makes it so far caviare to the general. (14)
• They have come to write, and with the effect to increase the amount of little-digging, which rather superabounded in our literary criticism before. (9)
• An author who has long enjoyed their favor, suddenly and rather mysteriously loses it, through his opinions on certain matters of literary taste, say. (9)
• A public function quite in accord with his academic and literary tastes was the presidency, which he accepted, of the American Archæological Institute. (14)
• During ten years of editorship, Schumann found abundant outlet for his literary interests, and his paper exerted a considerable force on public opinion. (3)
• If New York is a literary centre on the business side, as London is, Boston was a literary centre, as Weimar was, and as Edinburgh was. (9)
• In this instance I am obliged to ask myself whether our literary development can be recognized separately from that of the whole English- speaking world. (9)
• Some of them were speciously unfavorable in tone; they criticised and even ridiculed the principles on which the new departure in literary journalism was based. (9)
• We have splendid tragedies, we have the most beautiful of poetic plays, and we have literary comedies passingly pleasant to read, and occasionally to see acted. (10)
• Highly cultivated in literature, philosophy and poetry, he possessed a keen and discerning critical taste, and a literary style that was picturesque and eloquent. (3)
• He knew their literary quality, and their rank in the literary, world; but I believe he was surprised at the passion I instantly conceived for them. (9)
• After the war, when our political questions ceased to be moral and emotional and became economic and sociological, literary men found their standing with greater difficulty. (9)
• The literary theories we accepted were New England theories, the criticism we valued was New England criticism, or, more strictly speaking, Boston theories, Boston criticism. (9)

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