Word: writer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last number of the Advocate, a writer has taken exception to the CRIMSON'S stand in regard to the scheme for a new dining hall, as proposed by the Corporation. We quote his words...
...thing said in a CRIMSON editorial merits particular attention, - it is so particularly reprehensible. The writer of that editorial said: 'The best policy seems to be to take what we can get,' and he goes on to show the foxiness of accepting the gift of the Corporation on their terms and later perverting its use according to the lights of our own fancy. If honorable, this is hardly grateful. If the man who wrote that unfortunate article really believes in taking a gift for one ostensible purpose and using it after for another, he might have been wise enough...
...writer of memoirs, magazine articles and an essayist, De Quincey was one of the princes of English literature. He was of an intellectual turn of mind and resolved to see the world with his own and not with other's eyes. To earn his daily bread, he was compelled to write what would bring him immediate returns. Thus his literary activity was determined by his financial condition and his first writings were fugitive magazine articles which won for him the greater part of his fame...
...young writer moved to Bath where he was educated. At the age of fifteen, he could write Greek and Latin, and two years afterwards spoke the ancient, languages fluently. Soon he borrowed five pounds and plunged into the unknown world. He wandered to Wales and there lived as a literary vagabond. In a short time, he was discovered and removed by friends. In October 1803, he went to Worcester College, Oxford, and sought neither friends nor university honors. The exposure and privations which he had previously experienced drove him to the demoralizing habit of eating opium, the source...
...study of the classics. He had an exact and penetrating intellect and peered into the most hidden things. There is a vein through all his writings which gives evidence of an extensive reading knowledge and high culture. His humor, pathos and marvelous power of description made him a popular writer and secured for him the fame which returns from an extensive and wide-spread circulation of his works...