Careful Words

letters (n.)

Place me on Sunium's marbled steep,

Where nothing save the waves and I

May hear our mutual murmurs sweep;

There, swan-like, let me sing and die.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 16.

Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid,

Some banish'd lover, or some captive maid.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Eloisa to Abelard. Line 51.

  Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

Thomas B Macaulay (1800-1859): On Sir William Temple. 1838.

  Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

Thomas B Macaulay (1800-1859): On Sir William Temple. 1838.

  Republic of letters.

Henry Fielding (1707-1754): Tom Jones. Book xiv. Chap. i.