The Tartuffe and the Misantrope are the most singular, and yet, perhaps, the most proper and perfect characters that comedy can represent; and his Miser excels that of any other nation.
Professor Kerr affirms that it excels in quality the deposits in Missouri and Michigan.
There is no wonder that the simple minded pagans supposed that nature had dedicated this structure to supernatural use, for it excels in grandeur the most stupendous works of human hands.
As much as Dostoiewsky excels in originality, he lacks in rhythm and harmony.
For our own part, we have never been able to decide to our own entire satisfaction, which excels in the true Heroic style.
Pennsylvania excels every other State in mineral wealth, but Virginia comes next.
In the last of these Homer excels Virgil; Virgil all other ancient poets; and Shakespeare all modern poets.
He excels in monologue, and the law of the sonnet tempers monologue with mercy.
The achievement of Sedgwick and the brave Sixth Corps, as they marched upon the field of Gettysburg on that second day of July, far excels the vaunted efforts of the French Zouaves.
If Homer excels all subsequent writers in conception of character, vigour of imagination, and graphic delineation, Virgil is not less unrivalled in delicacy of sentiment, tenderness of feeling, and beauty of expression.
Accordingly we feel, and know, and universally admit, although Eloquence is musical, that Poetry far excels Eloquence in its alliance with the beautiful.
A man who is self-made and by his own exertions and untiring industry becomes a great man, often excels the mere student of the college in mental vigor as much as the hard fisted mechanic excels him physically.
It is fortunate that this city is our last in India, because it so far excels any other.
Before leaving Benares I must speak again of the scene at the river, which far excels any representation I have seen of it or any description I have read.
The fruit excels Fox with which it ripens, according to the catalog of the Peachland Nurseries, Seaford, Delaware.
In both appearance and quality, Governor Hogg excels Greensboro, the size, shape and color of the two, as the illustrations show, being much the same though the color of this variety runs more to reds and soft tints of red.
An essentially Latin genius, Heyse excels in stories of Italian life, where his lightness of touch and sense of form are shown to best advantage; but he has also written several long novels.
The Church is accustomed most fittingly to attribute to the Father those works of the Divinity in which power excels, to the Son those in which wisdom excels, and those in which love excels to the Holy Ghost.
No language excels the Russian in energy; but I must give them in the weakness of a translation.
THE OAKS Of all our native trees, I think the oak excelsin beauty of foliage.
Perhaps the red oak excels all other trees in the beauty of its summer foliage and its leaves are also richly colored in autumn.
He excels in tranquil irony, in polished disdain,[4116] in disguised sarcasm.
Lastly, by learning man excels man in that wherein man excels beasts.
And thus we saw the glory of the terrestrial, which excels in all things the glory of the telestial, even in glory, and in power, and in might, and in dominion.
Then to Silvia let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling: To her, garlands let us bring.
Mr. Lamb excels in familiar conversation almost as much as in writing, when his modesty does not overpower his self-possession.
He also excels as an historian and prose-translator.
If the first is better versed in the progress of history, no man excels the last in a knowledge of the course of exchange.
We conceive, however, that Mr. Campbell excels chiefly in sentiment and imagery.
The three first are but infants to the three second; and yet each, in a particular point of literary art, excels his superior in the whole.
As Cynthia's Orb excels the gems of night: So Epic Satire shines distinctly bright.
Although Dryden condemned Persius for obscurity and other defects, he agreed with Casaubon that Persius excels as a moral philosopher and that "moral doctrine" is more important to satire than wit or urbanity.
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