George the First's Secretary of State, but to the delightful painter of contemporary manners; the man who, when in good humor himself, was the pleasantest companion in all England.
Indeed, there is little poetry by the eminent contemporary masters which is so ripe and racy as his.
I do not think his verse or correspondence contains a single reference to Shakespeare, whose contemporary he was, being born only nine years later.
We recall the ignorant attacks on Manet and Monet, and we will not risk an onslaught on the follies of Picasso and the worse-than-Picassos of contemporary art.
It has often been said of Walpole that, in his attitude to contemporary men of genius, he was influenced mainly by their position in Society--that he regarded an author who was not a gentleman as being necessarily an inferior author.
We need not fear for contemporary poetry while the hedges contain a poet such as Mr. Davies.
It is to combat the stylelessness of many contemporary writers that the destructive kind of criticism is just now most necessary.
They live in a thousand letters and contemporary illusions, and one might as well be an agnostic about Mr. Asquith as about either of them.
He was as exact a realist (though in a different way) as Mr. Pepys, whose contemporary he was.
On the whole, we wish there was rather more sense of the tradition in contemporary writing.
The contemporary of whom he thought most highly was Gray, the son of a money broker.
The life of Spenser is wrapt in a similar obscurity to that which hides from us his great predecessor Chaucer, and his still greater contemporary Shakspere.
It is for these reasons that I beg your attention to an attempt at an appreciation of two contemporary singers, both excellent, though differing in the nature of their excellence.
For my part I am prepared in all such cases to give their keen-eyed and marvellous contemporary the benefit of the doubt.
The speech of the English Bible, which rightly seems to us so inimitably noble in its simplicity, was but the contemporary speech of educated England.
He had sat in it whilst Palmerston was leader, and his intimate friends had reason to believe that he had more to do with the direction of that statesman's policy and the destinies of the world than met the eye in contemporary records.
The Major had physical advantages which placed him head and shoulders above all contemporary humorists, conscious or unconscious.
But it is scarcely necessary to seek for remote precedents to justify the publication of the materials of contemporary history.
Michael had absconded from his home, and sought that of his great-aunt; the only person, said contemporary opinion, that had a hounce of influence with him.
The interest of the Court, therefore, in the contemporary events which were thrilling the remainder of Europe, was ethical or strategical, and one had to go outside its limits to be brought into touch with personal connecting links.
The most prosaic of mankind keeps a sort of internal or subjective diary of contemporary history, many of whose entries run on such events, and are so very unlike what their author said at the time.
Johnson, Horace Walpole, Goldsmith, fellow players, contemporary memoir writers, and audiences who admired her.
Attempts to make them obey the democratically established laws of contemporary American society are seen as repression and persecution.
We all know how well he has succeeded in winning for himself a foremost place in the ranks of French contemporary literature, and indeed of literature in general.
One of the most acute and sensitive of contemporary French critics, M.
This same concrete imagination which sees minute details is also evident in his contemporary Swift, but with him it works at the bidding of a far more fervid and emotional spirit.
For the period between 479 and the breaking out of the Peloponnesian war, we must, in the absence of contemporary authors, consider Diodorus Siculus as the principal authority.
More renowned than the foregoing was Theron, the contemporary and stepfather of Gelon; he ruled from B.
History of Rome under the Emperors, and of the contemporary nations, by M.
He was contemporary with Philip of Macedon, in whom he soon found a more formidable rival than any he could have met with in his own family.
Under the reign of this king, the contemporary of Marcus Aurelius and L.
These were elected sometimes for a stipulated period, at others for life; the most celebrated of the number was Pittacus of Mitylene, who flourished about 600, and was the contemporary of Sappho and Alcaeus.
He compiled mostly, for this period, from a contemporary historian, Hieronymus of Cardia.
Contemporary with this war, and highly fortunate for Rome, was the war of Antiochus Epiphanes with Egypt.
Not one of the contemporary writers has been preserved to us, nor indeed any one of the later historians who have compiled a history of the whole period.
George Meres, a contemporary and admirer of Shakspeare, in an enumeration of his works, mentions Titus Andronicus, in the year 1598.
Dryden was meant under the name of Bayes, though some features are taken from Davenant and other contemporary writers.
But with all this we must never forget that Euripides was still a Greek, and the contemporary of many of the greatest names of Greece in politics, philosophy, history, and the fine arts.
This is partly owing to the number of comic scenes; for the comic must always be founded not only in national, but also in contemporary manners.
Menander flourished after the times of Alexander the Great, and was the contemporary of Demetrius Phalereus.
The language is here and there somewhat obsolete, but on the whole much less so than in most of the contemporary writers, a sufficient proof of the goodness of his choice.
For although he boasts of his independent originality, and of his never borrowing anything from others, it was hardly possible that among such distinguished contemporary artists, all reciprocal influence should be excluded.
Footnote: A contemporary of the poet, the author of the already-noticed poem, (subscribed I.
Independently of the language or contemporary allusions, we should never be disposed to take a play of that school, though ignorant of its author, and the date of its production, for a work of the more modern period.
Bacon, the founder of modern experimental philosophy, and of whom it may be said, that he carried in his pocket all that even in this eighteenth century merits the name of philosophy, was a contemporary of Shakspeare.
Santarem remarks: [This detail, recorded by Azurara, a contemporary writer, shows the error into which Fr.
Including all the extant oldest English texts up to about 900, which are preserved in contemporary MSS.
A criticism of the social and religious conditions of contemporary France.
But while in Nature the synthesis of opposites is contemporary with their opposition, in society the antithetic elements seem to appear at long intervals, and to reach solution only`after long and tumultuous agitation.
In June, 1844, at the time when he published the fourth edition of his "Contemporary Reformers," M.
In the first edition of his "Studies of Contemporary Reformers," M.
From an anonymous contemporary painting now in the Hotel Carnavalet.
The author of the Authentic History, who left the best of the contemporary accounts of the taking of the Bastille which we possess, says rightly enough: "The riot began on the evening of July 12.
A contemporary could say of Linguet's Memoirs, "It is the longest lie that ever was printed.
This legend, which has so profoundly distorted the event, was contemporarywith the event itself, a spontaneous fruit of the popular imagination.
By the second half of the eighteenth century accused persons had come to be incarcerated in the Bastille by direct order of the Chatelet, which would have seemed incredible to a contemporary of Louis XIV.
And finally, in the graveyard adjoining the church, they raised to them, amid four poplars, a monument of which a contemporary print has preserved the likeness.
Contemporary records are full of the achievements of the heroes of that memorable day, and the valiant deeds of those who bore a part in the fight have oft been celebrated in prose and rhyme.
Raphael Hollinshead, the chronicler, a Cheshire man and a contemporary of Flower, in his work, published in 1577, repeats the statement with much circumstantial detail and an equal lack of accuracy.
Brereton, after the fall of Biddulph, would appear to have followed him, for in a contemporary document which Mr. Earwaker discovered among the Harleian MSS.
A circumstantial account of his military exploits is given by contemporary writers.
If we are to believe the statements of contemporary writers, for weeks afterwards the blood stood in puddles and stagnated in the gutters.
For a contemporary censure of Yuean Shih-k'ai see Paul Myron [Paul M.
Such an analysis requires an inquiry, however cursory, into the peculiarities of old China and those of contemporary China.
Gilbert's is a competent contemporary account of tuchuenism, sketching the background very clearly.
First, the mere geographic extent of China is such as to make her government necessary to a picture of contemporary governments.
In carrying out a program of adaptation, contemporary Chinese leadership has relied on Sun Yat-sen's phrase, "modernization without Westernization.
His books cover the period from the Boxer incident to the triumph of the Nationalists of Nanking, and--while not always reliable in detail--are stimulating contemporary documents.
Contemporary Chinese institutions are neither those of the past nor those of the future; they are a peculiar scheme of more recent origin and bound to be replaced.
Clyde, A History of the Modern and Contemporary Far East, New York, 1937, the most recent; and Payson J.
Proving Man to have been contemporary with the Mastodon; detailing the History of his Development from the Domain of the Brute, and Dispersion by Great Waves of Emigration from Central Asia.
A younger contemporary adds this pretty testimony: "As you can imagine, he was very popular both among the boys and the masters.
A resident contemporary writes: "He was certainly a Reformer, but not a violent one.
Adverse contemporary criticism, however, is slight in amount and vague in character; it can be readily dismissed, and it has in no case weight enough to demand much consideration.
If contemporary testimony can be believed, few men have ever lived who had the power to impress those who looked upon them so profoundly as Washington.
I have run many of them to earth; nearly all are destitute of contemporary authority, and they may be relegated to the dust-heaps.
This idea, moreover, is wholly that of posterity, for there is not the slightest indication on the part of any contemporary that Washington could not talk well and did not appear to great advantage in society.
The contemporary verdict was harsh, crushing, and unjust in many respects to Randolph.
The delicate tripping hexameter of contemporaryepic was equally unsuitable.
Even more passionate are the denunciations levelled against contemporary education by Messala in the Dialogus of Tacitus.
It is noteworthy that throughout these two satires the poet draws his illustrations from the themes of the schools rather than from the scenes of contemporary life.
The author was of Spanish origin, a native of Gades,[364] and the contemporary of his great compatriot the younger Seneca.
There is wafted from his pages the perfume of the countryside, and the fresh air breathes welcome amid the hothouse cultures of contemporary poets.
This is most strongly evident in that portion of his satire which concerns us here, inasmuch as it is directed against contemporary literary tendencies.
The younger Sulpicia was a contemporary of the poet Martial, and, like her predecessor, wrote erotic verse.
Such is the witness of Matthew Paris, a contemporary chronicler.
No contemporary explanation is forthcoming, and the true facts of the case seem to have been kept so close, and to have been known to so few, that no tradition, even, of them was handed down to posterity.
The story is narrated by the contemporary historian Roger of Wendover, and the Barnwell and Coggeshall chroniclers.
At Ely one feature of beauty is lamentably absent, namely stained glass contemporary with the building.
The contemporary mosaic pavement, representing Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden, is specially noteworthy.
Ptolemy Philometer was a contemporary of Antiochus Epiphanes, and many Jews fled from Palestine to take refuge under his benevolent sway.
It is carefully and skilfully compiled and as a contemporary record it is invaluable.
