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Why don't you try to get work on a newspaper, if you are so bound up in your writing? Why not become a reporter? for a while, at least?" "It would spoil my style," was his answer, in a low, monotonous voice. "You have no idea how I've worked for style." "But those storiettes," she argued. "You called them hack-work. You wrote many of them. Didn't they spoil your style?"
Virgil, in writing the "AEneid," executed an imperial commission, and an ungrateful commission; it is the sublime of hack-work, and the legend may be true which declares that, on his death-bed, he wished his poem burned.
The hack-work that Schiller did for it is of no biographical interest, save that it brought him into connection with Suabian writers and suggested to him that with a freer hand he might produce a better journal. In the following year, accordingly, we find him starting, in conjunction with his friends Abel and Petersen, the Wirtemberg Repertory of Literature.
And then after you have so rated the position, I want you to free the man who holds it from all hack-work, from the details of business management, from anything and everything that now prevents him from making a careful, scientific, investigative study of fundamental educational problems that confront him right here in Grand Forks. And what are some of those problems, do you ask?
All Pope's nobler feelings of loyalty to his art revolted from the degradation of letters which he saw about him: and after an interval of hack-work in a translation of Homer he revealed his terrible power of sarcasm in his poem of the "Dunciad." The poem is disfigured by mere outbursts of personal spleen, and in its later form by attacks on men whose last fault was dulness.
These things did not all come at once he did not know the Thrales till 1764 or 1765 but the true turning-point in his career is the publication of his Dictionary. He was still poor for some years after that, and still much occupied in the production of hack-work: but he was never again obscure and was soon to be famous.
I believe that improvement was exactly the word the estimable Colonel employed." "I'm awfully sorry," said Sharlee "awfully! But after all, you want only some routine hack-work any routine hack-work to establish a little income. It will not be very hard to find something else, as good or even better."
This was a period of great hopefulness for Thyrsis, but also of desperate struggle. For until the production of his play in January, he had somehow to keep alive, and that meant more hack-work.
So, after all, the painting of these big pictures may have been a useful ordeal for the artist who for the next sixty years was to reap fame by painting small ones. While he was earning a scanty living by this hack-work, Meissonier found time to paint two pictures which he sent to the Salon of 1836.
The emotions of it eat me all up. I daren't even let myself think about my work when I have to do other things." "I should think," commented the professor, "that you would find you are still more hindered by the uncertainties of hack-work." "I do find that," the boy replied. "That is just what is the matter with me." "I'm afraid you'll be forced to a compromise in the end." "But I won't!
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