We pass over now one or two of the subsequent productions of Racine, to mention next a play of his which had a singular history.
Fénelon's literary productions are various; but they all have the common character of being works written for the sake of life, rather than for the sake of literature.
Some productionsof the trouvères may fairly be allowed an elevation of aim and of treatment entitling them to be called epic in character.
I was not so much annoyed as I otherwise should have been, because I was told that the young man before me was the Eton boy, whose productions had been so much admired.
Many of the most popular songs she published after her marriage had been early productions of her pen; and were, perhaps, not excelled by any efforts of that kind in her later years.
The style of "gentleman" was probably given to him with reference to the productions of his pen.
To believe the reviewer, French literature consists in the productions of this writer, the works of George Sand, Balzac, Frederic Soulie, and a few others of equal note and mark.
I speak not of the softer sex, many of whose productions would seem to have but little sympathy with themselves; but once for all, I would ask you what reliance, what faith can you place in any of them?
With cocoa-nut oil alone we could quickly load our vessel, and with the population these islands possess, what numberless other tropical productions might they not furnish, if means could be found to civilise the people!
The wine and the grain, the chief productions of its lands, seldom suffice for its consumption, and never go beyond it.
Poland, depopulated by the war and a vicious government, reduced by a shameful treaty to two thirds of her ancient dominion, destitute of industry and manufactures, even of the first necessity, has no occasion for the productions of America.
I have mentioned above the port of Trieste, with which we may possibly have a commerce, and I am told that many useful productions and manufactures of Hungary may be had extremely cheap there.
We have as good a right to things, which we can purchase in divers foreign markets, as if the things were the productions of our own establishments.
To exemplify this, he has parodied the productions of several eminent masters, whose works, having been generally painted under the direction of cardinals, popes, etc.
I laughed at the pretensions of these quacks in colouring, ridiculed their productions as feeble and contemptible, and asserted that it required neither taste nor talents to excel their most popular performances.
The two prints here given are selected as two of the earliest avowed productions of Hogarth.
His coffers glittered with broad ducats, and his cabinets with the rarest productions of the East.
Tristram Shandy and the Sentimental Journey still remain among the most original productions in the language, and we are only taught once more that genius has a high-handed way of taking its own where it finds it.
It is not a fair comparison to set one of Whittier's inferiorproductions beside this superbest hymn of an eloquent age; but would any religious poem of the nineteenth century, even the best of them, fare much better?
Unfortunately, his maturer productions are lacking in the quality of human emotion which, however derived, pulsates in every line of the Poems and Ballads.
Carpenter is the most valuable contribution to the aid of temperance which it has received since the productions of L.
Amongst the productions was Gounod's Mirella, in which Nevada, Scalchi, De Anna, and other artists appeared.
This New York season of 1885 was a most disastrous one financially, as it necessitated my closing for nearly a fortnight in order that the promised productions should all be given.
According to Tatian, God made everything which is good, but the wickedness of demons perverts {124} the productions of nature for bad purposes, and the evil in these is due to demons and not to God.
I not only, however, consider my own trifles unworthy of such a dignity, but am inclined to strip it from other productions which might appear to have a more appropriate claim to it.
The Ælfric may be counted their ethnical rival, as dealing with the productions of the Anglo-Saxon enemies of the Celt.
To him, accordingly, he appealed for confirmation of his suspicions, demanding if he did not see in the two productions a similarity that in some places even approached identity.
There was at least one man who had the opportunity of being acquainted with the productions of his unappreciated muse--the printer.
The earliest productions following on this resolution were on a very minute scale.
Thus driven away by the prohibitive system of Russia, many nations are seeking to establish markets for their productions elsewhere.
Odessa and Nicolaief have dealt it mortal blows, and it now subsists only by its entrepot for the various productions of the empire, which are conveyed to it by the Dniepr, and forwarded by lighters to Odessa.
It is only in case of a long maritime war that she could hope to bring the productions of Central Asia to the Black Sea, thence to be distributed over continental Europe.
How much I regretted that I could not read the productions of such a poet.
Thus, it appears, the productions of our workshops find their way even to the toilette of a great Kalmuck lady.
All circumstances seem to combine in New Russia to make the productionsof the soil as economical as possible, and to enable them to compete successfully with those of all other countries.
It appears, however, that under the reign of Ivan the Terrible and his next successors, Astrakhan still continued to supply Russia with the productions of Persia, and with some of those of Central Asia.
The northern part adjoining Austria is, on the contrary, a hill country, beautifully diversified, covered with magnificent forests, and rich in all the productions of the most favoured temperate climates.
And yet all eyes, all desires, all purses turn towards the productions of France.
The mildness of the climate has allowed him to make numerous plantations of mulberries, which have perfectly succeeded, and to establish factories, the productions of which may vie with the finest silks of Provence.
Great activity prevailed in its very various manufactories down to the beginning of the present century, and their productions continued to be in request in all parts of Russia.
Still as letters from one friend to another make the nearest approaches to conversation, we may expect to see more of a character displayed in these than in otherproductions which are studied for public view.
A literary period in Germany, the productions of which were inspired by a love of strong passion and violent action.
Nature has there exerted her utmost efforts for the service of mankind; but they have not seconded those efforts by industry, living only upon the spontaneous productions of an uncultivated, but fruitful soil, and the exercise of rapine.
The Bamboo is one of the most wonderful and most beautiful productions of the tropics, and one of nature's most valuable gifts to uncivilized man.
There is one peculiarity in the productions of Java that is very puzzling:--the occurrence of several species or groups characteristic of the Siamese countries or of India, but which do not occur in Borneo or Sumatra.
While upon the subject of plants I may here mention a few of the more striking vegetable productions of Borneo.
I therefore devoted myself during the short time of my visit to obtaining what knowledge I could of the naturalproductions of the place.
Other islands, again, though in such close proximity as Bali and Lombock, might each exhibit an almost unmixed sample of the productions of the continents of which they had directly or indirectly once formed a part.
The bottom was absolutely hidden by a continuous series of corals, sponges, actinic, and other marine productions of magnificent dimensions, varied forms, and brilliant colours.
This is one of the best productions of Mr. Bennett.
The choir is one of the most beautiful productions of the thirteenth-century style of the country, always approaching nearer to English work than the architecture of any other part of the Continent.
Will it be believed that the remorseless demon of restoration has actually descended the steps of this venerable crypt, and that two of the capitals are now, not of the eleventh century, but brand-new productions of the nineteenth?
He had a number of sculptors and stone-cutters constantly employed for upwards of thirty years, and their productions amount to near a thousand pieces.
Her Highness invited us to a party at her casino, and shewed us a room entirely furnished in the English style, with the best productions of Bunbury, Hamilton and Strange.
His masterpiece, thus far, is The Castle in the Air, fitly praised by our neighbor of the Albion, as one of the finest productions of the present time.
The day at last arrived for the triennial exhibition of the productions of Dantzic art, on which day the council had agreed that the prize for the clock was to be adjudged.
It is noteworthy that few of Mrs. Barbauld's earlier productions equalled what she wrote at the very end of her life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "productions" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
