How To Use Man of letters In A Sentence
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He was a man of letters rather than an academic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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He had a badge in his cap and on his arm a brassard with the royal escutcheon; he invariably honoured me with a stiff, military salute which increased my importance in the hotel at the expense of my reputation as an innocent and unofficial man of letters.
The Complete Stories
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Hawthorne posed the problem of being an artist in America most sharply because he was not a "cosmopolite" man of letters but intensely and exclusively a writer of fiction, which was what James felt he must make of himself.
'The Complete Letters of Henry James, 1872-1876, Volume 1'
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It was then the fashion in Bengal to assign each man of letters a place in comparison with a supposed compeer in the West.
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The great man of letters William Dean Howells wrote in "Stories of Ohio" 1897 that if Chapman was right in his Swedenborgian belief that we are encircled by spirits that reflect our own behavior, then "this harmless, loving, uncouth, half-crazy man walked daily with the angels of God.
A Pro-Growth Strategy
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Born in Geneva and fleeing that city at age 16, Rousseau moved to Savoy where, under the influence of his benefactress Baronne de Warens, he transformed from an uneducated apprentice to a man of letters.
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As a follow-up to Délassements culinaires, The Gastronomic Regenerator exhibits both the contradictions inherent in Soyer's status as would-be man of letters, and his efforts to make the most of this tenuous situation.
Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
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A haunter of bookshops since his childhood, he was a dyed in the wool bookman, and was perhaps the last Man of Letters to have read ‘everything’.
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The man of letters and the maiden aunt.
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A diadem is purchased with gold; silver opens the way to heaven; philosophy may be hired for a penny; money controls justice; one obolus satisfies a man of letters; precious metal procures health; wealth attaches friends.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Herself the only daughter of a struggling man of letters, she had during the last year or two taken to writing poems, in an endeavour to find a congenial channel in which to let flow her painfully embayed emotions, whose former limpidity and sparkle seemed departing in the stagnation caused by the routine of a practical household and the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father.
Wessex Tales
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Herself the only daughter of a struggling man of letters, she had during the last year or two taken to writing poems, in an endeavour to find a congenial channel in which to let flow her painfully embayed emotions, whose former limpidity and sparkle seemed departing in the stagnation caused by the routine of a practical household and the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father.
Wessex Tales
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As new ideas grew more and more alarming in the Victorian era (atheism, evolution, rumblings of social revolution), the man of letters found himself a consoler as well as a critic, increasingly adopting a soothing bedside manner to quell the anxieties of the middle classes.
March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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J.R.R. Tolkien, on the other hand, was so very much a man of letters that he did not even attempt to publish any of his fiction until a reader at Allen and Unwin chanced to hear of The Hobbit and pried the typescript out of his hands.
Moorcock, Saruman and the Dragon’s Tail
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In February next year Mr Arnold's double repute, as a practical and official "educationist" and as a man of letters, brought him the offer of the care of Prince Thomas of Savoy, son of the Duke of Genoa, and grandson of Victor Emmanuel, who was to attend Harrow School and board with the Arnolds.
Matthew Arnold
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There is preserved a delightful vignette of the Bookman of Letters in his library of some 25,000 volumes, occupying the upper storey which he had built on to the wing of his splendiferous Frognal mansion.
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He is qualified as a complete man of letters.
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A final motive was that it reassigned the discovery of Francis Bacon's authorship from a "mad" American woman to a true-born Englishman, a quiet, retiring man of letters, an Oxford-educated rector from the heart of England.
"Contested Will"
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For the next forty-five twilit years of eclipse, he was to carry on, a true Man of Letters, indomitably writing - in Nassau, Paris, and Menton.
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he is a man of letters
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He was a man of letters rather than an academic.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The innovational steps comprise raveling out the flood peak of letters and calls, constituting the law of letters and calls, establishing the Ombudsman of letters and calls.
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Despite having won a clutch of literary prizes and being regarded as an elder statesman of letters, he eschews the label of ‘celebrity’.
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he is a man of letters
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A noted man of letters paid a brief visit to Killoran's Bar last week to look up an old friend.
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He was by no means the only man of letters of his time who had to submit to something like persecution.
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[FN#196] Abou Abdallah ibn el Casim el Hashimi, surnamed Abou el Ainaa, a blind traditionist and man of letters of Bassora, in the ninth century, and one of the most celebrated wits of his day.
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV
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It is all an infernal nuisance… it seems to me the time has arrived to set about being a man of letters.
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Tao Yuanming was a man of letters and refined scholar in ancient times.
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Perhaps the most extraordinary thing about the extraordinary Alexis Soyer is that, while he too fashioned himself a man of letters, he would also transcend the constraints of this literary model and, far ahead of his time, prefigure the flamboyant personas of today's celebrity chefs.
Alexis Soyer and the Rise of the Celebrity Chef
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Li Zhi was a well - Known thinker, educator and man of letters in the Later Qing Dynasty.
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The great man of letters William Dean Howells wrote in "Stories of Ohio" 1897 that if Chapman was right in his Swedenborgian belief that we are encircled by spirits that reflect our own behavior, then "this harmless, loving, uncouth, half-crazy man walked daily with the angels of God.
A Pro-Growth Strategy
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We regret to announce the death of a distinguished man of letters.
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Don't you think 'corespondent' rather a good generic term for 'man of letters,' from the point of view of the country-town newspaper reader? ...
Familiar Letters of William James II
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But, did not forget other man of letters is inn wailful him position lose while, also be inn wailful and contemporary intellectual is humanitarian mental lose.
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He interested himself in me, and I owe it to him that I am to-day a finished man of letters, being well versed in Latin, from Ciceros Offices to the Mortuology of the Celestine Fathers, nor ignorant of scholastics, of poetics, of music, nor even of hermetics nor alchemythat subtlety of subtleties.
VII. A Wedding Night. Book II
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Stu Ungar, who repeated as champion that year, was a coke-addled enfant terrible whose wavelength happened to be out of phase with that of the London man of letters.
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Man of letters, calligraphist, collector of books and paintings.
Chinese Painters A Critical Study
