person of letters

As a man of letters is much less well known.

In 1751, I removed from the country to the town, the true scene for a man of letters.

He was seen by his friends as a poet, or man of letters, who never married.

"You ought to have a man of letters like Johnson."

But even "man of letters" does not quite grasp him.

"I see you are a man of letters," he said, not without some surprise.

By background, he was both a man of letters and well trained in arms.

He was a known orator and a man of letters.

John was a man of letters and an amateur philosopher.

Great men of letters cannot avoid being humane and universal.

Deacon's new career as a man of letters had begun.

"Men of letters are more mobile and responsive to change," he said.

He is the last great British man of letters.

Soon he abandoned lecturing and became a free man of letters.

"At his death he was regarded as Canada's leading man of letters."

What was so great about him, as a man of letters or as a partner?

"I was a liberal man of letters with a few relatively small complications in my professional life."

It was eminently not the place for a distinguished man of letters.

It is by good work only that men of letters can justify their right to a place in the world."

Shakespeare was not a man of letters by profession, and probably had only some grammar school education.

Nonetheless, he remains more a man of letters than of action.

He would pat the magazine at every opportunity to confirm his status as a man of letters.

As a man of letters he worked with Alexander Smith.

- 1530 or 1531) was a Spanish man of letters.

After his death, she even came to serve as a source for early scholars seeking information about the famous man of letters.