Word: comparison
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...never-to-be-forgotten wreath, - after the feelings aroused by Durer we turn to the Little Master, and truly see what a "well-intentioned" artist he is. He gives us, reduced of course, the sphere which Durer gave; the compass shows us a wing, - but what a wing! A comparison of the wing in Behau's print with Durer's is one of the best ways of seeing what Durer really did when he exerted his earnest efforts to reproduce natural objects. But the amusing feature in Behau's Melancholy is the figure itself. For Durer's powerful presence, longing...
WITHOUT intending to dispel any fair dream of present happiness that may dwell in the mind of any youthful student during the first few months of his college life, we may recall our experience and by comparison hope to arrive at some agreeable conclusions...
Gray Friars, however, is very small in comparison with Christ's, there being but fifty scholars on the foundation, yet the proportion of celebrated men is very large, - Addison, "loose Dick Steele," Thurlwall, Grote, Sir John Leech, and Thackeray standing high in the list of graduates. The last-named, Thackeray, was always very fond of his old school, and just before his death went on Founder's Day to scatter pennies among the boys...
Taking any few of them into comparison, their scales of prices are absurdly varied. Of two recent catalogues of firms with which our students have dealings, the prices of volumes of "Bohn's Library" are just one third higher in one than the other, though the lower price named is by no means cheap...
...pamphlet, being sometimes highly ludicrous at places where "the laugh" was hardly intended to "come in" by the author. It is written from the antediluvian-proslavery point of view. Unparalleled and impossible virtues are invented for the past, and every exceptional case of transgression in modern times dragged into comparison with a shadowy ideal of Mr. Josselyn's own; when this portion of his stock in trade has become exhausted, he resorts to calling good things by bad names, which does quite as well. Strengthened by these advantages, he has succeeded, within the narrow compass of some seven hundred lines...