Among modern authors who have written on the subject of Roman literature, the first place is unquestionably due to Tiraboschi, who, though a cold and uninteresting critic, is distinguished by soundness of judgment and labour of research.
I need not here anticipate those observations which the works of the Roman authors will suggest in the following pages.
In the most ancient comedies, however, this character was not denominated parasite, and was first so called in the plays of Araros, the son of Aristophanes, and one of the earliest authors of the middle comedy.
Mr Elton thinks that the epithet did not mean what we understand by learned, but rather knowing and accomplished--what the old English authors signify by cunning, as cunning in music and the mathematics.
The comedies of Caecilius, which amounted to thirty, are all lost, so that our opinion of their merits can be formed only from the criticisms of those Latin authors who wrote before they had perished.
However numerous or extensive these ballads may have been, they soon sunk into oblivion; and in consequence of the overpowering influence of Greek authors and manners, they never formed the groundwork of a polished system of national poetry.
There is no writer to whom the authors of other nations, especially of England, are so indebted for the extension of their fame in France, and, through France, in Europe.
To argue against these opinions would be idle indeed; the only other resource was to make them ridiculous, and weaken their influence by holding up their authors to contempt.
We are not the authorsof the troubles and divisions which exist in the church.
But no doubt he had read Liguori, Dens, Debreyne, authors approved by the Pope, and he was obliged to take darkness for light, and vice for virtue.
The “Memoirs du Comte Valmont,” with some authors of the same stamp, were much relied on by our superiors to prove to us that the dogmas, precepts and practices of the Roman Catholic religion were brought from heaven.
Several books were not written by the authors whose names they bear.
Seeing that nothing is known about the authors of Egyptian works, not even their names, it is impossible to write a History of Egyptian Literature in the ordinary sense of the word.
After all, I fear authors must submit to be something of monsters--not quite simple, healthy human beings; but I will keep my monstrosity within bounds if possible.
I wonder if all your other authors are as greedy and exacting as I am.
I think yours is the instinct of all delicate natures--not to speak to authorsabout their writings.
However, George's happiness in writing his books makes him less dependent than most authors on the audience they find.
Dumbarton Grange, June, 1921 ["Alessandro de Medici is generally styled by the Italian authors the first duke of Florence; but in this they are not strictly accurate.
Both these species have been united by some authors (Mr. M.
In the production of these studies the editors andauthors have sought to embody not only their own ideals but the best product of the thought of all who are contributing to the theory and practice of modern religious education.
But they were as much the victims as the authors of a system which Rome had sanctioned, and which came directly from the claims which it made to govern the world not merely by spiritual suasion, but by external influence.
I know that well; but you have expressed no aversion to them; and far from detesting the authors of such maxims, you cherish esteem for them.
Indeed, the advantages to any place of having a great genius born and reared in its midst are so doubtful that it might be well for localities designing to become the birthplaces of distinguished authors to think twice about it.
I heard fames that I had accepted as proofs of power treated as factitious, and witnessed a frankness concerning authorship, far and near, that I had not dreamed of authors using.
The great authors I had met were to me the sum of greatness, and if I could not rank their publisher with them by virtue of equal achievement, I handsomely brevetted him worthy of their friendship, and honored him in the visible measure of it.
At Boston chiefly, if not at Boston alone, was there a vigorous intellectual life among such authors as I have named.
And first concerning rivers; there be so many wonders reported and written of them, and of the several creatures that be bred and live in them, and those by authors of so good credit, that we need not to deny them an historical faith.
The authors of the Biographica Dramatica say of his farces "Mr. Foote's dramatic works are all to be ranked among the petites pieces of the theatre, as he never attempted anything which attained the bulk of the more perfect drama.
The authors have unearthed a large amount of new material relating to Foppa, one of the most interesting facts brought to light being that he lived for twenty-three years longer than was formerly supposed.
It has been the object to obtain as wide a range of leading authors as possible, to present the best specimens of style, to insure interest in the subjects, to impart valuable information, and to exert a decided and healthful moral influence.
Even as a child he had received a good education from his uncle, who was an ecclesiastic, and he learnt enough Latin to read the Georgics of Virgil and other ancientauthors in the original text.
In the beginning of the fifties he was to be found every evening at a brasserie much frequented by artists and students in the Rue Hautefeuille in the Quartier Latin, in the society of young authors of the school of Balzac.
I then sent for the principal men of the multitude into the public place, and enjoined them to tell me who were the authors of the revolt; and when they told me who the men were, I sent them bound to the city Jotapata.
But as to this man, and how ill were his character and conduct of life, and how he and his brother were, in great measure, the authors of our destruction, I shall give the reader an account in the progress of my narration.
Tarry therefore till I shall thoroughly find out those authors of our danger, and then you shall have them all at once under your power, with all such as you shall yourselves bring in also.
By some amazing oversight this street, which has sheltered more artists and authors than any other thoroughfare in the world, seems to have evaded their capture.
And in return, the moving picture has done a service to fiction, making the authors give more attention to exact visualization.
He said: "Well, authors are human beings, of course.
The tendency of the moving picture has been to make authors visualize more clearly than ever before their characters and scenes that they are writing about.
The fact that authors who have given the world things that it treasures are forced to live in a state of anxiety over their finances is lamentable.
And I have never before heard the names of any of the authors they have mentioned.
The authors have talked freely, realizing that this was an opportunity to set forth their views definitely and comprehensively.
He has little faith in the honesty of purpose of the authors of works of this sort.
There were several other authors who began to write about Americans soon after Mr. Howells began--Thomas Janvier, H.
It was formed for just the purpose that seems to be prompting authors to unionize--to instruct authors in their rights and protect them against infringements.
The authors themselves are beginning to realize this.
I think that theauthors have changed," said Mr. Harben, reflectively.
I feel a great deal of hesitancy about the present proposed affiliation of authors with labor.
And I find the not-so-successful authors prodding pretty faithfully to get their prices up.
By some authorsit is referred to the eagles, by others to the buzzards, and by others again to the hawks; but possibly the first of these alliances is the most likely to be true.
There is at the outset a difference of opinion as to the scientific name which the largest and best known of these groups should bear--some authors terming it Nisus, and others, who seem to have the most justice on their side, Accipiter.
The knowledge of this fact lowers the tone of the press, and circumscribes both authors and speakers, as any allusions to history or general literature would be very imperfectly, if at all, understood.
From either point of view the authors are highly gifted individuals' [!
The authors of such monitory or cautionary tales understood but one form of development, the development of Original Sin.
The spell of prohibition, of repression, lies so strong upon these authors that when they try to break away from it, to appeal to something better than fear in the child, and essay to amuse, they become merely silly.
Tragic authors should possess that, for they teach it to their audiences.
Yes," replied the lady, "if you could persuade authors what we do for them, when we coax good music to grow on barren words.
Wordsworth in England and Emerson in America were striking instances of this; and authors of far less fame have yet the same choice which they had.
One of the very most popular of American authors has said that he never, to this day, has overcome a slight feeling of repugnance on seeing his own name in print.
As has been already stated, some authors consider Ephydatia as the type-genus of a subfamily distinguished from the subfamily of which Spongilla is the type-genus by having rotulate gemmule-spicules.
It has been shown by the authors cited that the green corpuscles of the worm are at one stage minute free-living organisms provided at one end with four flagella and at the other with a red pigment spot.
Contemporary with Carter were two authors whose monographs on the freshwater sponges did much to advance the study of the group, namely, J.
Its status has been much disputed, some authors regarding the shape of the lophophore as of great morphological importance, while Jullien believed that Fredericella was merely an abnormal or monstrous form of Plumatella.
Some authors regard the position of the polyzoa as near that of the higher worms, but the group is an isolated one.
Many authors have dealt with the physiology, reproduction and development of the Spongillidae, especially in recent years; Dr.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "authors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
