Poet so closely resembles poet in the mediocrity of similar attainment, that we are forced to sigh for the energy of Michelangelo's unfinished sonnets, or the crudities of Campanella's muse.
The lady closed the door behind her before she perceived Fran, so intent was she upon securing from threatening rain some unfinished silk-work lying on the window-sill.
The upper part was an unfinished letter to the Chicago mission, just as Grace had left it in her haste to get rid of Fran.
Major Kasiski inferred from the remains of the unfinished bridge, which showed the use of tenons and mortises, that it was of later date than the others.
Some of them are in an unfinished state, and one is of transparent rock-crystal.
The perforated hatchets (one of which is an unfinished specimen, with the core still in the hole) have often one end formed into a hammer (=Fig.
And the last sentence of the unfinishedletter written before the charge in which he fell, "The attack cannot but succeed.
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
Miss Keene impatiently, sitting up in bed, more alarmed at the unusual circumstance of Mrs. Brimmer's unfinished toilet than at her incomplete speech.
You shall be my child, my companion, my friend; all that my age can give you shall be yours while I live, and it shall be your place one day to take up my unfinished work when it falls from these palsied hands forever.
Looking further into the future, what a glorious successor might be left to his unfinished work on Todos Santos!
Dona Sancha soon drew near to Beatriz, and began to rally her upon her occupation, threatening playfully to carry away and read the unfinished letter.
Having given what expression they dared to their outraged feelings, they once more turned their attention to the unfinished repast.
This music of Venus was built upon queer minor strains; unfinished cadences; a rhythm of the sort we of Earth could never encompass.
I have unfinished pictures lying around my workshop.
I wish to settle up that little unfinished business with you to-night.
I have thought, Marcus, that there might be something about that unfinished machine that could be patented for the benefit of Miss Minford.
And you may still see where Jacques Theroulde (for Antoine Bohier) carried on the work which Berneval's son left unfinishedin 1441.
Montesquieu, whose end was approaching, left behind him an unfinished article on Taste.
Though unfinished and obscure in intention, it haunts the imagination with a mystic power.
It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.
She puts her mug aside and takes up her unfinished pair of trousers.
The door is opened with difficulty and a little girl enters, carrying a pile of unfinished corduroy trousers nearly as large as herself.
To a Friend, together with an Unfinished Poem, 128 n.
I had correspondence with Sir Howard Douglas about the sea breaking over the unfinished Dover Pier.
The nave is now almost filled with scaffolding for the repair of the roof, so that it has not the bare unfinished appearance that it had when I was there last year.
She resumed her music, and brought out of exile the unfinished song.
But that afternoon he went into his long-deserted studio and hunted up his last unfinished picture.
It is sufficiently clear that the unfinished mînâr was commenced upon too large a scale, and with too small a diminution of the circumference from the base upwards.
The author's description of the unfinished tower is far from accurate.
The Sangîn Burj, or Stone Tower, is a fine unfinishedfortification (ibid.
The tidy basket, with the bit of work she left unfinished when the needle grew 'so heavy', was still on its accustomed shelf.
Her workbox, with an unfinished piece of work; her album full of extracts from Byron and Moore, written in his own scrawling hand; some books which he had given her, and a bunch of withered flowers in a vase they had bought in Italy.
The two young men looked at the paintings on the walls first, leaving this unfinished portrait for a bonne bouche.
There is her own portrait, too, unfinished but wonderfully like.
Stevenson himself left unfinished what would in all probability have been his unquestioned masterpiece, Weir of Hermiston.
Note 16: Cologne Cathedral, the great unfinished marvel by the Rhine.
