Biographical and Critical Miscellanies by William H. Prescott
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 688
ISBN-13: 9780548018330
Subjects: Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Essays; Literary Collections / Essays; Literature - Classics / Criticism
First sentence: THE class of professed men of letters, if we exclude from the account the conductors of periodical journals, is certainly not very large, even at the present day, in our country; but before the close of the last century it was nearly impossible to meet with an individual who looked to authorship as his only, or, indeed, his principal, means of subsistence.