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Sentences starting with literature

Literature is a power. [4]
Literature was a mere chance. [4]
Literature is never in any age an isolated product. [4]
Literature depends, like every other product bought by the people, upon advertising, and it needs much effort usually to arrest the attention of our hurrying public upon what it would most enjoy if it were brought to its knowledge. [4]
Literature was invented before phonographs, and will endure after them. [9]

Sentences ending with literature

And that horrid young pirate, Ault, a patron of literature! [4]
It is a wonderful time for literature. [4]
We do not wonder that his earlier publication has been received as a valuable addition, not only to English, but to European literature. [6]
It is by Wilbrandt, and is his masterpiece and the work which is to make his name permanent in German literature. [5]
This insures a wider distribution, but what is its effect upon the quality of literature? [4]
The question is, Why not work him in the field of foreign literature? [8]
The same effort used to introduce a novelty will be much better remunerated by pushing the sale of an acknowledged good piece of literature. [4]
For Honora, all unconsciously, wrote literature. [9]
To tell the truth, I am not very well up in French literature. [6]
Beaton was saying to Fulkerson: "You might get a series of sketches by substitutes; the substitutes haven't been much heard from in the war literature. [8]

Short sentences using literature

Well, literature is the atmosphere. [4]
Elevate the standard of literature? [8]
Why not in literature? [4]
It waves in all literature. [4]
English Literature, 87. [6]
Does literature pay? [4]

Sentences containing literature two or more times

One advantage of this is that when new and usable material is not forthcoming, the "standards" and the best literature must be reproduced in countless editions, and the best literature is broadcast over the world at prices to suit all purses, even the leanest. [4]
I am aware that the evolution of literature or art in any period, in relation to the literature and art of the world, cannot be accurately judged by contemporaries and participants, nor can it be predicted. [4]
It is believed that the advancement of art and literature in this country will be promoted by the organization of the producers of literature and art. [4]
My modesty won't suffer while compliments are being paid to literature, and through literature to my family. [5]
I must go on chasing them until I marry--then I am done with literature and all other bosh,--that is, literature wherewith to please the general public. [5]
It seems to me that it was far from right for the Professor of English Literature in Yale, the Professor of English Literature in Columbia, and Wilkie Collies to deliver opinions on Cooper's literature without having read some of it. [5]
The love of literature is not to be attained in this way, nor in any way except by reading the best literature. [4]
Messrs. Stone & Kimball, however, who had plenty of fearlessness where literature was concerned, immediately bought the series for The Chap Book, long since dead, and they were published in that wonderful little short-lived magazine, which contained some things of permanent value to literature. [11]
But literature, that is, literature which is an end in itself and not a means to something else, did not exist in America before Irving. [4]
They always talk handsomely about the literature of the land, always what a fine, great, monumental thing a great literature is, and in the midst of their enthusiasm they turn around and do what they can to discourage it. [5]

More example sentences with the word literature in them

Denzil belongs to you, because you helped to save him years ago; the Catholic Archbishop belongs to you, because he's got brains and a love of literature and art; Barode Barouche belongs to you, because he's almost a genius too. [11]
And how are you going to submit your literature for illustration? [8]
But he was writing to her often, he was talking to her freely about his perplexities, about leaving the office and trusting himself to the pursuit of literature in some way. [4]
We gave the world tobacco and the potato, perhaps the most important contributions to the content and the fatness of the world made by any new country, and it was a noble ambition to give it new styles of art and literature also. [4]
So large a work as the "History of the Rise of the Dutch Republic," offered for the press by an author as yet unknown to the British public, could hardly expect a warm welcome from the great dealers in literature as merchandise. [6]
But it is with the live literature of his profession that the medical practitioner is first of all concerned. [3]
When, a little while after the establishment of the new magazine, the "Saturday Club" gathered about the long table at "Parker's," such a representation of all that was best in American literature had never been collected within so small a compass. [6]
The acclaim with which the Southern literature has been received is partly due to its novelty, the new life it exhibited, but more to the recognition in it of a fresh flavor, a literary quality distinctly original and of permanent importance. [4]
And this contribution, which I desire to be understood to mean when I speak of literature, is precisely the thing of most value in the lives of the majority of men, whether they are aware of it or not. [4]
We couldn't tell what interpretation succeeding ages would put upon our lives and history and literature when they have become remote and shadowy. [4]
In no other way so well as by association of this sort can be created the feeling of solidarity in our literature, and the recognition of its power. [4]
One gentleman, who was very familiar with American literature, said he had never seen it mentioned in any book. [5]
The interesting fact was that she was obliged to judge this world according to the standards of literature, morals, and manners that had been implanted in her mainly by the influence of one person. [4]
The literature which was furnished for Myrtle's improvement was chiefly of a religious character, and, however interesting and valuable to those to whom it was adapted, had not been chosen with any wise regard to its fitness for her special conditions. [6]
Such was the vision in her youthful mind, added to by degrees as she grew into young-ladyhood and surreptitiously became familiar with the writings of Ouida and the Duchess, and other literature of an educating cosmopolitan nature. [9]
Where did this virile, blood-full, throbbing Russian literature come from; this Russian painting of Verestchagin, that smites us like a sword with the consciousness of the tremendous meaning of existence? [4]
He led a very pleasant life there, tempering his college duties with the literature he loved, and receiving his friends amidst elegant surroundings, which added to the charm of his society. [6]
At last I ventured to ask what literature it was that interested her so much, when she turned and frankly entered into conversation. [4]
We were a utilitarian people who would never create a great literature, and he reminded me that the days of the romantic and the picturesque had passed. [9]
We were brought up on the literature of England; our first efforts were imitations of it; we were criticised--we criticised ourselves on its standards. [4]
Phelps was, however, unsophisticated in his until the advent of strangers into his life, who brought in literature and various other disturbing influences. [4]
T.] The Parisian travels but little, he knows no language but his own, reads no literature but his own, and consequently he is pretty narrow and pretty self-sufficient. [5]
Outside of these topics he had devoted a great deal of attention to matters connected with literature and art. [4]
In 1880 Mark took a few pot shots at license in Art and Literature in his Tramp Abroad, "I wonder why some things are? [5]
Not entirely; for, to the last, he would cram into the satchel sacred to literature any odds and ends of rubbish that he couldn't find a handy place for elsewhere. [5]
Is the fellow to that to be found in literature, ancient or modern, foreign or domestic, living or dead, drunk or sober? [5]
It is needless to say, then, that all the substantial and permanent literature of the profession should be represented upon our shelves. [3]
Now, it seems to me that the transmutation of the crude and heretofore unpoetical materials which he found in the New World into what is as absolute a creation as exists in literature, was a distinct work of the imagination. [4]
Yet you talk to me of literature as a profession. [9]
Thus we fly to literature in crises of the heart! [9]
It is necessary to know rural England to enter into the spirit of this literature, and to appreciate how thoroughly it took hold of life in every phase. [4]
They had intended to issue the first number with the new year, and if it had been an affair of literature alone, it would have been very easy; but it was the art leg they limped on, as Fulkerson phrased it. [8]
The standard objected to is the narrow insular one (the term "insular" is used purely as a geographical one) that measures life, social conditions, feeling, temperament, and national idiosyncrasies expressed in our literature by certain fixed notions prevalent in England. [4]
It needs genius to import into literature ordinary conversation, petty domestic details, and the commonplace and vulgar phases of life. [4]
She then returned to her uncle, the old gun, or son of a gun, as the case may be, and he taught her to write and speak Latin, which was the language of literature and polite society at that period. [5]
It is time to define what we mean by literature. [4]
Then he returned to Bad-Nauheim and settled down to literature. [5]
The idea was to advance me another step toward literature. [5]
Nor is it to admit that such a literature is characteristic of the spirit of America, and can be applied without change to our life and atmosphere. [9]
In that seething time, the lighter literature took a sentimental tone, and either spread itself in manufactured fine writing, or lapsed into a reminiscent and melting mood. [4]
Winnie's literature sings through me yet! [5]
I dragged through three chapters, losing flesh all the time, and then was honest enough to quit, and confess to myself that I haven't any romance literature appetite, as far as I can see, except for your books. [5]
She must have thought you knew her literature and could speak for it. [5]
But, better than this, the book had attracted the attention of many lovers of literature. [4]
The result of this universal demand for fiction is necessarily an enormous supply, and as everybody writes, without reference to gifts, the product is mainly trash, and trash of a deleterious sort; for bad art in literature is bad morals. [4]
The perusal of this smattering of everything, these scraps of information and snatches of literature, this infinite variety and medley, in which no subject is adequately treated, is distracting and debilitating to the mind. [4]
Is it not this same mighty, deep-seated power that somehow operates on the minds of men, exciting and stirring them up in every avenue of society,--in politics, in religion, in literature, in morals, in all the manifold relations of life? [7]
The beauty of this condescension to literature of which we speak is that it has that quality of spontaneity that does not presuppose either a capacity or a call. [4]
Nor do I think that we need to take shelter behind the wellworn and convenient observation, the truth of which stands in much doubt, that literature is the final flower of a nation's civilization. [4]
There are few things in literature that are more piteous, more pathetic, than the celebrated "humorous" incident of Moses and the spectacles. [5]
The most scathing thing ever said in literature was said by Robert Buchanan on Dante Gabriel Rossetti's verses--"He has wheeled his nuptial bed into the street. [11]
Beautiful ponds, as they modestly call themselves,--one of which, Walden, is as well known in our literature as Windermere in that of Old England,--lie quietly in their clean basins. [6]
Why struggle with these things in literature and in life? [4]
To discover what these qualities are that have insured permanence and promise indefinite continuance is to have a means of judging with an approach to scientific accuracy our contemporary literature. [4]
What name is there in literature that can be likened to his? [5]
Those who concern themselves with the printed matter in books and periodicals are often in despair over the volume of it, and their actual inability to keep up with current literature. [4]
It appears in their letters again and again, though perhaps it was just as well for literature that it was never carried out. [5]
The ligature was their best hold then, the literature became their best hold later, when one of them committed an indiscretion, and they had to cut the old bond to accommodate the sheriff. [5]
His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers. [5]
His selection covered the whole range of legitimate literature. [5]
The "plant," in the way of money and writing industry invested in the production of juvenile literature, is so large and is so permanent an interest, that it requires more discriminating consideration than can be given to it in a passing paragraph. [4]
Very little of the trash of literature, or the ignoble--that is to say, the ignoble view of life--had come into her mind. [4]
The literature of the time is full of allusions to this distinction. [4]
Whether this is the survival of the period when the paper contained little else except "selections," and other printed matter was scarce, or whether it is only the beginning of a development that shall supply the public nearly all its literature, I do not know. [4]
And this is the reason why psychological studies of the abnormal, or biographies of criminal lunatics, are only interesting to pathologists and never become classics in literature. [4]
If we examine the reading-books from the lowest grade to the highest, we shall find that their object is to teach words, not literature. [4]
Or, to put the question in another form, does the system of education in our common schools give the pupils a taste for good literature or much power of discrimination? [4]
One aspect of the publishing business which has become increasingly prominent during the last fifteen years cannot be overlooked, for it is certain to affect seriously the production of literature as to quality, and its distribution. [4]
A reading-room is the proper introduction to a library, leading up through the newspapers and magazines to other literature. [5]
It happens to the princes of literature to encounter periods of varying duration when their names are revered and their books are not read. [4]
One looking through the pages of contemporary periodical literature is apt at any moment to light upon pieces, and sometimes upon series of them, which the author never took the trouble to collect. [4]
She denied herself the morning attendance on the Literature Class that was raking over the eighteenth century. [4]
This office for the mind acquaintance with literature can alone perform. [4]
It is not the men whose duties have made them familiar with this class of subjects who are most likely to offend by scenes and descriptions which belong to the physician's private library, and not to the shelves devoted to polite literature. [6]
To speak technically, the masterpiece of literature is characterized by the same knowledge of proportion and perspective as the masterpiece in art. [4]
The toastmaster introduced the guest of the evening with a high tribute to his place in American literature, saying that he was dear to the hearts of all Americans. [5]
Not one of the great histories, which have done honor to our literature, had appeared. [6]
Martha Washington and the good ladies of her acquaintance knew nothing about the upper waters of the Missouri, and the words "for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer" were not merely literature to them. [9]
When, in July, the financial situation became desperate, the Esmeralda miner was moved to turn to literature for relief. [5]
Genuine literature is the expression, we take it, of life-and truth to that is the standard of its success. [4]
Later he became the editor-in-chief of the thirty odd volumes which make up the collection entitled "The World's Best Literature. [4]
V It is the desire of every ambitious soul to, enter Literature by the front door, and the few who have patience and money enough to live without the aid of the beckoning Helen may enter there. [4]
His conception of the character and mission of Columbus is largely outlined, but firmly and most carefully executed, and is one of the noblest in literature. [4]
In dealing with the cases of our complex life, there is no accomplishment, no learning in science, art, or literature, that the successful practitioner will not find it very advantageous to possess. [4]
Do New-Yorkers control the capital, rule the politics, build the palaces, direct the newspapers, furnish the entertainment, manufacture the literature, set the pace in society? [4]
The excitement which the book caused among young persons interested in the literature of the day at that time you probably remember. [6]
We camped on the boiler deck, and bought some cheap literature to kill time with. [5]
The simplicity of the Bible dwells in those speeches, and they are now classics in our literature. [9]
The Bible is the best illustration of the literature of power, for it always concerns itself with life, it touches it at all points. [4]
And this achievement, the achievement of putting something into literature that was not there before, is, I should think, the most that any writer can ever hope to do. [5]
The publisher knows that we want our literature (or what passes for that) in light array. [4]
There's no denying that the pictures have sold this first number; but I expect the literature of this first number to sell the pictures of the second. [8]
It is said that the fashion of this world passeth away, and so does the mere fashion in literature, the fashion that does not follow the eternal law of beauty and symmetry, and contribute to the intellectual and spiritual part of man. [4]
It is clear that the critic of contemporary literature is quite as likely to be wrong as right. [4]
It is noticeable that the country editor who published it did not know that it was a treasure and the most perfect thing of its kind that the storehouses and museums of literature could show. [5]
I don't believe that that character exists in literature in so well-developed a condition as it exists in Orion's person. [5]
I am told that publishers are largely at fault for the quality of the reading used in schools--that schools would gladly receive the good literature if they could get it. [4]
Capital has discovered that literature is a product out of which money can be made, in the same way that it can be made in cotton, wheat, or iron. [4]
If they do, that just shows their ignorance on the general subject of literature. [5]
Despite the fact that Hugh Chiltern had with such apparent resolution set his face towards literature and the tillage of the land, it was as the Viking still that her imagination pictured him. [9]

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