Escribir es una manía frente a la cual ninguna razón es suficientemente sólida; tan fácil sería convencerme a mí de que no ame, como a ti de que no escribas.
Matthew Gregory LewisIn short, to enter the lists of literature is wilfully to expose yourself to the arrows of neglect, ridicule, envy, and disappointment. Whether you write well or ill, be assured that you will not escape from blame...
Matthew Gregory LewisStichwörter: writing literature
But in those whom no necessity forces to turn Author, who merely write for fame, and have full leisure to polish their compositions, faults are impardonable, and merit the sharpest arrows of criticism.
Matthew Gregory LewisStichwörter: writing
did she know the inexpressible charm of modesty, how irresistibly it enthralls the heart of man, how firmly it charms him to the throne of beauty
Matthew Gregory LewisTo one laden with crime, death came armed with double terror.
Matthew Gregory Lewispossession which cloys man, only increases the affection of woman
Matthew Gregory LewisOr make her blushing cheek a pillow for thy head
Matthew Gregory LewisBut who for a moment can deceive the eyes of love?
Matthew Gregory LewisWhen I said I should die in your service with pleasure, I intended to live in it many long years; since, to tell you the truth, from a child I had always a particular dislike to dying, and I think that with every hour the prejudice grows stronger.
Matthew Gregory LewisStichwörter: oaths
A bad composition carries its own punishment—contempt and ridicule; a good one excites envy and entails upon its author a thousand mortifications; he finds himself assailed by partial and ill-humored criticism; one man finds fault with the plan, another with the style, a third with the precept which strives to inculcate; and they who cannot succeed in finding fault with the book, employ themselves in stigmatizing its author: they maliciously rake out from obscurity every little circumstance which may throw ridicule upon his private character or conduct and aim at wounding the man since they cannot hurt the writer.
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