These peaceful arts had been much neglected in Italy during the civil wars; Virgil hoped to revive the taste for rural pursuits, by his beautiful descriptions of country life.
Unfortunately, I neglected to make a collection of this series.
Lavignac and others, who have listed the Ring motive, have neglected to catalogue it, but it is mentioned by Old Fogy.
She had been neglected by those who, at least, should have presented her person to the best advantage admitted by Time.
The doctrine started from observation of facts; it was too 'abstract' so far as it neglected elements in the concrete realities which were really relevant to the conclusions.
You have, urged Malthus, neglected certain undeniable truths as to the unalterable qualities of human nature, and, therefore, your theories will not work.
Otherwise we should have to excuse a man because he had neglected to calculate, whereas to calculate is the very essence of virtue.
This too long neglected matter was so vital to one who desired to mix with stylists on equal terms, that it would be the part of wisdom to see about it now.
The knowledge abased him that he had neglected this obvious duty, but yet he had the excuse, such as it was, that this was the very first time in his life he had entered a church.
He was informed by Celtic deserters that the enemy had neglected to secure the beach between his two chains of entrenchments 600 feet distant from each other by a cross-wall, and on this he formed his plan.
But while the Armenians were still forming their array, the quick eye of Lucullus perceived that they had neglected to occupy a height which commanded the whole position of their cavalry.
You are in danger, because your neglected Bible is a plain evidence that you do not love God.
Mocked, despised, scorned, neglected as his testimony may be on earth, a day is coming which shall prove effectually that truth was on his side.
I believe that in our own land sickness is one of the greatest aids to the minister of the Gospel, and that sermons and counsels are often brought home in the day of disease which we have neglected in the day of health.
In the third place, there is no duty in religion so neglected as private prayer.
They were all men that threw themselves entirely into their business, and neglected every thing else for the sake of that business.
This neglected Book is the subject about which I address the readers of this paper to-day.
Thousands have been neglected in their poverty and old age, who were honoured by all when they were rich and young.
He preached the long-neglected truth of justification by faith, in spite of anathemas and excommunications, fast and thickly poured upon him.
Remember the swift and constant motion of your neglected time.
The work of a magistrate, a lawyer, a physician, and such like, is principally in doing good in their several callings, which must not be neglected for contemplation.
If thou hadst ever seriously thus covenanted and given up thyself to God, thou wouldst not have neglected him by an ungodly life, nor lived after to the devil, the world, and the flesh, which were renounced.
If you had neglected to teach your child to speak or go when it is young, should he therefore never learn?
You have neglected Ferdinand's education, and you did wrong.
Burke, however, neglected to state how many sisters and brothers Susanna had who were younger than herself, and also what would have been the result on church history had the parents of Susanna named their twenty-third child Omega.
But Voltaire had neglected to invite him to a "first night," and now he was getting even.
She had begun to keep her account in writing, and then had neglected it; she begged her mother to let her examine hers; she did so, at the same time warning her that it was for the last time.
Yes, but you have neglectedit thirty-one times, for the month of May has thirty-one days.
She often put her work away, but she also frequently neglected it: still it seemed to her that she had attended to it so many times, that she felt quite easy on the subject, and did not even think of examining the day of the month.
It cried and cried, with the insistent cry of a neglected child.
How much of force that should have helped towards growth is wasted in this slave's play for a prize not worth having--the fame of having well done the lowest thing in the engraver's art, and having for that neglected the study of the highest!
They held themselves occasionally ready to repel open assault, which was rare, andneglected every safeguard against insidious attack, which was much more common.
A grown-up observer might have smiled satirically at Mrs. Carroll's theories, so easily preached, so neglected in practice.
The rich, too, separated from the neglected and propertyless masses of the nation, and rightly distrustful of them, begin to forget their nationality, and to balance its advantages against the sacrifices necessary to preserve it.
The moderns have frequently inequitably neglected the doctrine of consumption.
Of the two great means of education in art, the study of nature and the study of classic models, the latter is the easier, and the former is readily neglected for it.
Ay," answered Cadwallon; "and which certain Christian princes have scarce attained to, who have never neglected the chance of pillage or conquest afforded by the absence of a rival in the Holy Crusade.
Their camp had been therefore carelessly guarded, and confident in the smallness of the garrison, they had altogether neglected the important military duty of establishing patrols and outposts at a proper distance from their main body.
Well--I cannot aid thee--I am but a poor and neglected woman, feeble both from sex and age.
She was so sleepy before tumbling into bed that she had neglected to plait it, and it was all over the sheets like fire.
From a Calabrian monk of this district, Petrarch acquired a knowledge of the then totally neglected Greek language; and Boccaccio learnt it of this monk's disciple.
And then we find them expatiating in most moving terms over the superiority of their own neglected genius!
In that long space of time, besides the uncertainty of what may happen to ourselves, there is but too much reason to fear that, unless a change for the better should take place, some one or more of the neglectedchildren may be dead.
Neglected there, maids, trust to me, So many goblins you shall see.
All day and during the night she had been busy with the unfortunate mother and her twins, and therefore had frequently neglected to fill his brandy bottle.
And were you really permitted to find such in this neglected vagabond, reverend sir?
The grenadiers rushed on them with such impetuosity, that they neglected the admirable order, to which they had been so often indebted for victory.
The attachment, that induced the latter to attend Napoleon, was so much the more to his honour, as Napoleon, when he returned from the island of Elba, reproached him very harshly with having neglected him.
Plants raised with tenderness are seldom strong; Man's coltish disposition asks the thong; And without discipline the favourite child, Like a neglected forester, runs wild.
But time, that should enrich the nobler mind, Neglected leaves a dreary waste behind.
But they Neglectedpine at home; themselves, as more Exposed than others, with less scruple made His victims, robb'd of their defenceless all.
Cities then Attract us, and neglected Nature pines, Abandon'd, as unworthy of our love.
See me neglected on the world's rude coast, Each dear companion of my voyage lost!
The establishment of her schools, comprising the children of several parishes, then in a most neglected and uncivilized state.
My dearest Rose,--I am not such an ungrateful and insensible animal, as to have neglected you thus long without a reason.
He neglected his work until customers became few and far between, but he was never behindhand with his rent, and he could afford to employ an old woman to keep his rooms tidy.
Her husband neglected her, and she could not bear to be alone.
Banks brooded, rather neglectedand overlooked in a corner by the window.
