After this achievement we naturally began to look for appropriate use for the small tapestries, but here came our stumbling block.
The Review, an unusual achievement for the age, shows Defoe to have been a journalist of great ability.
Thomson's greatest achievement is The Seasons (1730), a romantic poem, written in Miltonic blank verse.
These poets obtained many of their images of nature at first hand, an achievement rare in any age.
As a tour de force in metrical form it is remarkable enough, and probably marks the highest point of Latin achievement in imitation of the more complex Greek metres.
Of the actual literary achievement of this remarkable critic, when he turned from criticism and took to construction, the surviving fragments give but an imperfect idea.
But the achievement of the new age was mainly in verse.
German menace, an achievement attributable also in part to military administrative efficiency of a high order in a time of crisis.
It was a remarkable achievement--an achievementattributable in part to military foresight dating back to the days when Messrs.
A musical setting to The Chaplet, an entertainment by Moses Mendez, was Boyce's most successful achievement in this year.
Cromwell becomes a moral monster, and the revocation of the edict of Nantes is "the greatest achievement of the second Constantine.
The amateur organ-builder’s son inherited the father’s taste, and made himself a fiddle—the first achievement of his mechanical genius.
All military achievement develops out of unity of action.
He becomes a factor in the equation which expresses the achievement or the failure of the service in its particular mission.
At Glasgow he said: "The whole fortune of our race and Empire, the whole treasure accumulated during so many centuries of sacrifice and achievement would perish and be swept utterly away, if our naval supremacy were to be impaired.
That he anticipated by sixty years and more certain depravations in style and taste notorious in our own day is something: it is more that his achievement in gaudy writing and in the literary treatment of art was really considerable.
Now the time has come to make the most of our gains--to translate the renewal of our national strength into the achievement of our national purpose.
Between the Battles," though too slight to be called an achievement, was accepted as a pledge of achievement in future.
But one achievement remained to be performed before the whole world could become one.
The mechanical feat awoke more enthusiasm than even the scientific achievement which was its living soul,--not because it was more wonderful, but because it dispelled our last doubt.
In greed, in valour, and in achievement they won their mastery.
There he stood, straight and motionless, with an air of vastachievement about him.
Mr. O'Connell regarded Catholic Emancipation as the great achievement of his life; and it was that which won for him the title of "The Liberator of Ireland.
When this painting of air and tone is set forth by the exquisite colour of Peter de Hoogh, you see this kind of Dutch achievement at its best.
It shows that, in spite of misfortune and failure, his ardour for new artistic achievement remained with him to the end.
But in his panel pictures, when he was not hurried, his work continued to improve until he reached his crowningachievement in the Sistine Madonna painted three years before his death.
In matters of money and achievement she might brag, but in matters of love she was strangely subservient to him, because in such matters he had everything to teach her.
The triumph of her own achievement melted away the last of her uneasiness--she seized Ellen in her arms and kissed her, knocking her hat over one ear.
His immortal achievement was his “quest of the oracle of the Holy Bottle.
Samson’s Crown=, an achievement of great renown, which costs the life of the doer thereof.
This is called the achievement of the quest of the Holy Graal (pt.
His work received at once the consecration of a classic, and it inspired Pushkin with his most important if not his finest achievement in dramatic verse (Boris Godunov).
As the work of a man whose intellectual life was only beginning, it was such an achievement as is not often recorded in the history of modern literature.
But the greatest apologetic achievement of Hengstenberg was his christological work.
Their great achievement was the unification of the philosophical systems of Germany and Scotland.
The grand achievement of Christianity was the emancipation of human nature from its terrible Jewish thraldom.
Not least in honor andachievement is the late Karl Ullmann.
But the great achievement of Neander was his General History of the Christian Religion and Church, embracing the period from the close of the apostolic age to the Council of Basle in 1430.
Those who read the pages of this book will find therein a tale of patient endeavour and glorious achievement of which I claim a good right to be as proud as any of my fellow-countrymen.
