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Example sentences for "literary career"

  • He read enormously and with passion, and from his boyhood he seems--also like Henry James--to have had no dream of other than a literary career.

  • The circumstances of his early life made a literary career difficult.

  • With Madame Delphine (1881) had closed the first and the great period in Cable's literary career.

  • This was not the case when I began my literary career.

  • I have referred more fully to this part of my literary career, and will only mention here that I did not enter upon this course with any special purpose in view, or with any sense of pleasure.

  • I can therefore not blame myself that I was urged on in this branch of my literary career by the hope of moral or material gain; it was simply my personal liking and predilection which made me pursue these subjects.

  • On the termination of this engagement he decided upon a literary career, which he began by contributing articles to the Edinburgh Encyclopædia.

  • He did not, however, enter the Church, but began a literary career by ed.

  • Originally intended for the Church, he devoted himself to a literary career.

  • I have used these terms from the very beginning of my literary career, and as Professor Whitney evidently doubts my word, I may refer him to my Proposals, submitted to the Alphabetic Conferences in 1854.

  • I am not one of those who believe that truth is much advanced by public controversy, and I have carefully eschewed it during the whole of my literary career.

  • Professor Goldstücker was an old friend of mine, to whom in the beginning of my literary career at Berlin and in Paris, I was indebted for much personal kindness.

  • I have tried hard, throughout the whole of my literary career, and even in this “Defense,” not to use the weapons that have been used against me during so many years of almost uninterrupted attacks.

  • The manifest talents which he possessed, led the friends of the Anti-Slavery cause to feel that he could serve it better in a literary career than by manual labor.

  • As if by a kind of fatality, I seemed to be afterwards drawn into a literary career, for which I was doubly disqualified--first by an imperfect education, and next by defective eyesight.

  • I combated his despondence, and assured him of triumph, if he would persevere in a literary career.

  • You were probably strongly fascinated by the supposed rewards of a literary career?

  • The first thing necessary for you to do is to find out your own motive in choosing a literary career.

  • Dissension soon arose in the family a propos of young Baudelaire's desire for a literary career.

  • To what sad, precarious, and miserable existence does he vow himself--he who takes up a literary career?

  • I have not once, through all my literary career, felt myself even in danger of being late with my task.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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