Whilst upon this subject of manuscripts of our Author, I will give some particulars regarding a very curious one, containing a version in the Irish language.
The details of this route, except in one particular, correspond closely in essentials with those given by our author, and form an excellent basis of illustration for Polo's description.
Our Author's Kermán is the city still so called; and its proper name would seem to have been Kuwáshír.
Bentleium to enlighten the world with his annotations on our author, I shall not think that the least reward or happiness arising to me from these my endeavours.
Next these, the Archbishop of Cambray’s Telemachus may give him the truest idea of the spirit and turn of our author; and Bossu’s admirable Treatise of the Epic Poem the justest notion of his design and conduct.
Our author’s work is a wild paradise, where, if we cannot see all the beauties so distinctly as in an ordered garden, it is only because the number of them is infinitely greater.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus has pointed out many of our author’s beauties in this kind, in his treatise of the Composition of Words.
Here he met with an adventure, which we will continue in the words of our author.
Our Author in his first Edition had divided his Poem into ten Books, but afterwards broke the seventh and the eleventh each of them into two different Books, by the help of some small Additions.
It was certainly a very bold Thought in our Author, to ascribe the first Use of Artillery to the Rebel Angels.
Our author, however, doubts if it be the place, though he unhesitatingly abuses Poussin, as if he had fully intended to have painted nothing else than what was seen by the travelling graduate.
Fortunately for us it is not necessary, in order to convey the point of our author's observations upon this head, to afflict our readers with any dissertation upon mode or figure, or other logical technicalities.
Our author seems to have studied skies, such as they are in Turner or in nature.
We know the little town; it received us as well as our author, having left Rome to visit it.
Intellectually one of the chief deficiencies of our author--a deficiency in which perhaps his age and nation participated--was a lack of humour.
In 1553, Joannes Cuspinianus, a counsellor of the Emperor Maximilian, published at Basel a series of Chronicles with which he interwove the Chronicle of Cassiodorus, and to which he prefixed a short life of our author.
The Vergilian simile put into the mouth of Antonius is distinctly misplaced; but as our authorso seldom offends in this respect he may be pardoned for the nonce.
It is mentioned as a port of Ma'bar by our author's contemporary Rashiduddin, though the name has been perverted by careless transcription into Báwal and Kábal.
Sindbad the Sailor relates the story, as is well known, and his version is the closest of all to our author's.
Our author's contemporary, Hayton, had heard of the great ruby: "The king of that Island of Celan hath the largest and finest ruby in existence.
Our author's "Island" has no reference to this; it is an error simply.
This line is quoted again by our author, "On Moral Virtue," § vii.
Quoted by our authoragain "On Abundance of Friends," § vi.
Our author, who since 1878 had been largely engaged in the study of other parts of Semitic antiquity, has not yet given to the world his promised second volume.
These, the English ones at any rate, leave much to be desired; indeed it is not too much to say that there is no version of our Author in the language which gives the general reader anything like an adequate notion of these Plays.
Such incidents and anecdotes of our author's literary life as have come down to us are all connected with one or other of the several plays, and will be found alluded to in the special Introductions prefixed to these.
Incidentally excellent fun is poked at Euripides and his dramatic methods, which supply matter for so much witty badinage in several others of our author's pieces.
The antithetic particle is omitted before this clause as it often is by our author.
These two words are brought together in like manner in other passages of our author, cf.
So the centurions of the legate and the servants of the procurator are said by our author to have robbed the Briton King Prasutagus of his kingdom and his palace, Ann.
The gentlemen of Trinidad, who are struggling for political enfranchisement, are not likely to heed, except as a matter for indignant contempt, the obtrusion by our author of his opinion that "they had best let well alone.
Our author, in an uncommon strain of self-depreciation, or rather to give a neat turn to his sentence, has avouched himself to be a worse poet than Flecknoe.
Lucan's fine description of the Massyllian forest, and that of the enchanted grove in Tasso, have been both consulted by our author.
The character of Cardinal Beaufort is the most prominent in the group: the account of his death is one of our author's masterpieces.
Shakespeare's bold and happy flights of imagination were equally thrown away upon our author.
It is the only play of our author in which spleen is the predominant feeling of the mind.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "our author" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
