109 Metaphors for writing

" "Why?" "She would be pleased if she could understand, and writing is the joy of my lifetwo reasons.

To the world his writings will long remain a kind of specimen of what the human mind is capable of performing; but no man perceived their defects so acutely as he, or saw so distinctly how much yet remained to be effected: he alone appeared to look upon his works with superiority and indifference.

Surely it was something more than an accidental coincidence that, in the little "Daily Food," which for nearly forty years had been her closet companion, the passage for the 13th of August was: "I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and their works do follow them."

The writing of this narrative, in fact, has been a test of my ability to overlook and describe my experience without being touched by its past delusions.

With me it had always been more the adventure than the story; my writing was a by-product, a utilisation of what life offered me.

His writing to her, Miss Wimple said, was a circumstance as strange as it was fortunate; for, in fact, she had, personally, but a very slight acquaintance with him, and was "quite sure she should not recognize him, if she were to see him now";as for his little girls, she had never seen them, nor even heard their names.

The phonetic writing of Nebuchadnezzar is "An-pa-sa-du-sis," each of which syllables has been identified through the syllabaries.

For the external history of this period the writings of the historian Josephus are the chief sources.

Letter-writing has always been a resource and a pastime to me; a refuge in head-achy and rainy days, and a tiny way to give pleasure or do good, when other paths were hedged up.

"The writing the verbs at length on his slate, will be a very useful exercise.

But whether an author was a courtier or a Londoner living by his wits, writing was never the main business of his life: all the writers of the time were in one way or another men of action and affairs.

The first published writing of his which is well known is his description, in the June number of this magazine, of the March of the Seventh Regiment of New York to Washington.

" Our writings are as so many dishes, our readers guests, our books like beauty, that which one admires another rejects; so are we approved as men's fancies are inclined.

It is often said, for instance, with an air of deploring a phase of general mental degeneracy, that "letter-writing is a lost art."

Writings is a common noun, of the third person, plural number, neuter gender, and nominative case.

Since Goethe no one has been able to say with so much truth, "My writings are my confessions."

His writings were mainly attacks on Christianity, and, in addition to the "Discourse on Freethinking," he published: "Discourse of the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion;" "Scheme of Literal Prophecy Considered;" "Priestcraft in Perfection;" "Historical and Critical Essay on the Thirty-Nine Articles;" and "A Philosophical Enquiry concerning Human Liberty."

His name is no longer a power, but his influence endures in all the grand reforms of which he was a part, and for which his generation in England is praised; while his writings remain a treasure-house of political and moral wisdom, sure to be drawn upon during every public discussion of governmental principles.

Apparently in every particular her writing in this instance was the exact opposite of that made by her while in the alleged trance condition.

Writing is an employment which suits me not at present.

Whether these answers be ascribed to Spirits, or to what is termed clairvoyance, they would be none the less true or false if delivered orally by the Medium; all that we are sure of is that the writing down of these communications, be their substance what it may, is performed in a manner so closely resembling fraud as to be indistinguishable from it.

But novel-writing, when well done, is, after all, the best species of writing; for, if what all the world says, is true; what all the world reads, must be good.

"Oh," sighed Verty, "this writing is a terrible thing to-day; I want a holiday.

Writing was my obsession.

The great poets of the T'ang period adopted the rules of form laid down by the poetic art of the south in the fifth century; but while at that time the writing of poetry was a learned pastime, precious and formalistic, the T'ang poets brought to it genuine feeling.

109 Metaphors for  writing