Biographical And Critical Miscellanies By William H. Prescott
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: April 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 692
ISBN-13: 9781417915460
Subjects: Essays, journals, letters & other prose works; Literature: Classics; Literary Collections; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Essays
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.