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James Payn
English
Novelist
Born:
Feb 28
,
1830
Died:
Mar 25
,
1898
Good
Good-Natured
Great
Man
Poverty
Young
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In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.
James Payn
Later
Prominent
Pretence
Civilised
Highly
Sooner
Sooner Or Later
Literature
Regions
Communities
As a rule, anyone who can tell a good story can write one, so there really need be no mistake about his qualification; such a man will be careful not to be wearisome, and to keep his point, or his catastrophe, well in hand.
James Payn
Good
Man
Mistake
Will
Rule
Tell
Be Careful
About
Good Story
Point
Write
Catastrophe
Qualification
Well
His
Hand
Anyone
Story
Really
Who
Keep
Need
Careful
A nobler example, because a less personal one, of the pinch of poverty, is when it prevents the accomplishment of some cherished scheme for the benefit of the human race.
James Payn
Example
Poverty
Benefit
Some
Prevents
Scheme
Because
Cherished
Pinch
Accomplishment
Personal
Human
Race
Less
Human Race
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.
James Payn
Writing
Men
Matters
Think
Difficulty
Embarrassment
Would
Would-Be
Find
Finding
About
Case
Excess
Arise
Material
However
Essay
Any
Being
Literary
Literary Men
Which
Title
Might
Far
Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit.
James Payn
Best
Nature
Matter
Guide
Pursuit
Course
Choosing
It is quite extraordinary how very various are the opinions entertained on this point, and, before sifting them, one must be careful in the first place to eliminate from our inquiry the cases of that considerable class of persons who pinch themselves.
James Payn
Class
First
Before
Extraordinary
Considerable
Our
Inquiry
Entertained
Must
Be Careful
Cases
Various
Point
First Place
Opinions
How
Pinch
Very
Quite
Place
Them
Persons
Themselves
Who
Eliminate
Careful
It is better, however, for his own reputation that the story-teller should risk a few actions for libel on account of these unfortunate coincidences than that he should adopt the melancholy device of using blanks or asterisks.
James Payn
Better
Few
Own
Reputation
Libel
Melancholy
Adopt
Risk
Blanks
He
Device
However
His
Account
Than
Unfortunate
Should
Using
Actions
Coincidences
It has often struck me that the relation of two important members of the social body to one another has never been sufficiently considered, or treated of, so far as I know, either by the philosopher or the poet.
James Payn
Me
Poet
Important
Relation
Philosopher
Considered
Members
Struck
Never
Know
Another
Been
Often
Either
Social
Far
Body
Sufficiently
Treated
Two
For my part, I do not feel that the scheme of future happiness, which ought by rights to be in preparation for me, will be at all interfered with by my not meeting again the man I have in my. mind.
James Payn
Happiness
Future
Me
Man
Rights
Mind
Will
Preparation
Ought
Meeting
Scheme
Part
Feel
Which
Again
Interfered
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