Of this advantage the author has fully availed himself in a variety of familiar exemplars, which, to speak seriously are brought home to our very firesides.

"The two elaborate poems of Blackmore and Milton, the which, for the dignity of them, may very well be looked upon as the two grand exemplars of poetry, do either of them exceed, and are more to be valued than all the poets, both of the Romans and the Greeks put together.

His father was a distinguished Highland officer; by his mother he was related to his illustrious literary exemplar, Sir Walter Scott.

It prefers its villains to grow blacker with time, and welcomes proof of fallibility and frailty in its immortal exemplars.

As the second and third enumerated are copies of one imperfect exemplar it has not been thought necessary to collate both with the Brussels MS. which has furnished the text here printed.

And in their glorious company we may hope that some of our names may yet be enrolled, to stand as the inspiring exemplars and the models for coming times.

His father was a distinguished Highland officer; by his mother he was related to his illustrious literary exemplar, Sir Walter Scott.

" One thing may be confidently affirmed of this man,that he stands as a notable exemplar, in the highest grade, of the American of this century,the natural development of the self-reliant English stock upon our continent.

this couplet is the precise exemplar, not only of the thirty-six lines of which it is a part, but also of the most common of our trochaic metres; and if this may be thus scanned into iambic verse, so may all other trochaic lines in existence: distinction between the two orders must then be worse than useless.

Retiring, as I must soon do from my somewhat Satanic activity, from "going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it," I can claim, like my ill-reputed exemplar, to have encountered some patient Jobs, servants of the Lord, but more who were impatient, yet not the less the Lord's servants, and the outward semblance of these I try to present.

In the White House we long to have the great spiritual exemplars of our race.

The Frankish church was reared upon the spot where, in pagan times, one bitter winter day, a Roman soldier parted his mantle with his sword and gave half of the garment to a naked beggar; and so was memorialized in art and stone what was called the divine spirit of giving, whose unbelieving exemplar afterward became a saint.

To those who can imagine such a form as shall be the sure exponent of such a moral being,and such it must be, or it will be nothing,we leave the task of constructing this universal exemplar for multitudinous man.

Through those thousand years poets and critics vied with one another in proclaiming her verse the one unmatched exemplar of lyric art.

Laws that are hidden from our prying eyes ordain that a man shall be the visible exemplar of vanished ages, offering here and there a hook of remembrance, on which a philosopher may hang a theory for the world's admiring gaze.