It is reasonable to suppose that his gains were proportionably considerable.

There is not, and there never was, any party numerically considerable at the North, in favor of disunion.

Our loss slight; that of insurgents considerable.

Arnold, himself a poet of rare and memorable quality, declares his firm belief that the poetical performance of Wordsworth is, after that of Shakespeare and Milton, undoubtedly the most considerable in our language from the Elizabethan age to the present time.