"Litterateur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Shelley, a week after she would have forgotten which was which—because both bored her to distraction—and she would have to be reminded again. One awful moment came when, rhapsodizing upon the sensibility of Keats' character, she said to Sir Tedbury Delvine, the finest litterateur of his time, that there must have come moments during Keats' latter years when he must have felt as his own "Prometheus Unbound"! But, seeing her mistake immediately by her listener's blank face, she regained her ground with a skill and a flow of words which made Sir Tedbury Delvine ...
— Halcyone • Elinor Glyn
... hugged to her breast, the child fairly flew out of the room, leaving Straws a prey to conflicting emotions. He experienced in those moments of suspense all the doubts and fears of the nestling bard or the tadpole litterateur, awaiting the pleasure and sentence of the august editor or the puissant publisher. Tortier had been suddenly exalted to the judge's lofty pedestal. Would he forthwith be an imperial autocrat; turn tyrant or Thersites; or become critic, one of "those graminivorous ...
— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham
... of his treble position as banker, economic writer, and general litterateur, was his charming book 'Lombard Street.' Most writers know nothing about business, he sets forth, most business men cannot write, therefore most writing about business is either unreadable or untrue: he put all his literary gifts at its service, and produced a ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol 3 • Various
... duc Philippe qu'on surnomma le Bon, ce n'est point ici le lieu d'examiner s'il merita bien veritablement ce titre glorieux, et si l'histoire n'auroit pas a lui faire des reproches de plus d'un genre. Mais, comme litterateur, je ne puis m'empecher de remarquer ici, a l'honneur de sa memoire, que les lettres au moins lui doivent de la reconnoissance; que c'est un des princes qui, depuis Charlemagne jusqu'a Francois I'er, ait le plus fait pour elles; qu'au ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, - and Discoveries of The English Nation, Volume 10 - Asia, Part III • Richard Hakluyt |
