It would be a most elegant and magnificent ornament, which would always nobly distinguish their apartments from those, of an inferior rank; and in this they would run no risk of being rivalled by the bourgeois.
About that time an extraordinarily strong taste for the theatre took possession of Irish society, and during the greater part of the 18th century the Dublin stage rivalled the English in the brilliancy of its stars.
Brome, were content avowedly to follow in his footsteps, Jonson was only occasionally rivalled in individual instances of comic creations; in the entirety of its achievements his genius as a comic dramatist remained unapproached.
From a poetic point of view, however, they were at least rivalled by Dekker and Ford; in productivity and favour T.
The grandeur which Michael Angelo gave to the human figure, Titian has rivalled in colour, and both were dignified during their lives with the appellation of The Divine.
The importance of magnetism was only rivalled by the mystery in which the whole subject was shrouded: and the region which surrounded the Southern Magnetic Pole of the earth offered a promising field of experiment and observation.
Further, at Cape Evans there had been running for more than three months a scientific station, which rivalled in thoroughness and exactitude any other such station in the world.
It was a moonlight that almost rivalled the brightness of day.
This, of a rich chestnut colour, was parted on her forehead, and carried in a curving sweep over cheeks that rivalled the radiance of the flower.
The grossness of his comedies rivalled that of Wycherley himself.
His "Comus" and "Arcades" hadrivalled the masques of Ben Jonson.
No English divine save Jeremy Taylor rivalled Howe as a preacher.
But need held him to the boards and years passed by, and Dryden still stood in the second rank of English poetry, outdone in comedy by men like Etherege and rivalled in tragedy by men like Settle.
The French army was gradually raised to a hundred and eighty thousand men, while Colbert created a fleet which rivalled that of Holland in number and equipment.
The state maintained by the Priors of Kilmainham, in their capacious residence, often rivalledthat of the Lords Justices.
The orders of Saint Francis and Saint Dominick, those twin giants of the thirteenth century, already rivalled the mighty brotherhood which Saint Bernard had consecrated, and Saint Malachy had introduced into the Irish Church.
Early in life I conceived a passion for graver studies, and by good luck I found a tutor in Mr Tibbets, who, but for his modesty, Kitty, would have rivalled Porson.
During the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Tournai rivalled Dinant as a producer of fine copper and brassware, and in this industry the artistic instincts of its citizens soon led them to produce pieces of remarkable distinction.
On the other hand, the sans-culottes very nearly rivalled the image-breakers in the vigour with which they destroyed the city's religious monuments.
This, by the bye, is a part of the arrangement which I suspect is not rivalled in England.
In histrionic and versifying power he rivalled his countryman, Sheridan, who never forgave him for deserting the Whigs and going over to Pitt.
Equally good was his knowledge of English literature; so that in the company of kindred spirits, the flow of wit and learning, imagination and experience, must have rivalled that of the Literary Club over which Dr.
My room was about twelve feet square, was handsomely furnished, and decorated with a large mirror, and a polished oaken floor that rivalled the mirror in brilliancy.
But I was mistaken; the procession fairly rivalled those of Rome.
Great as the acquisitions of the Muscovite power have been during the last thirty years, they have almost been rivalled by those of the British in India.
So it may be seen that the book-sellers were rivalled by the book-printers--equally rich and witty though not so beautiful.
Elizabeth changed her position then for a low seat, and resting her chin on her hand sat looking into the fire with eyes in which there burned a dark glow that rivalled it.
She picked them somehow by instinct; she did not know what she was doing; her face rivalled their red bunches; and she picked with a kind of fury.
The Scotch landscapes were remarkably fine: there was a Sunset in the Highlands which rivalled Claude in truth; and a twilight on Loch Lomond, a poem full of romantic beauty.
In this, the mineral rivalled the vegetable kingdom in brilliancy and beauty of colour.
Nor is increased quantity alone to be noted, for at the factory of Kawashima in Kioto Gobelins are produced such as have never been rivalled elsewhere.
The crowd that gathered at Centennial Park to witness the review rivalled that which had witnessed the arrival of the fleet.
These extinct giants carried on their backs huge domes of bony plates, that must have rivalled our much-feared tanks, of trench war fame.
These water-loving animals rely mainly upon their native element for the movement of lumber and food, and to aid this they employ engineering skill that is rivalled only by their feats of tree-cutting and dam-building.
He rivalled the king in the appointments of his household, exercised the most unbounded hospitality towards those who visited the court, and became the medium through which the subjects communicated with their sovereign.
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