A small, but beautiful composition, the Coronation of the Virgin, is perhaps the most impressive of the whole series.

Her first compositions were dramas, one of which, "Percy," Garrick accepted for the stage, where for a season it had fair success.

Is there a standard by which we may ascertain beyond question whether a composition be Veal or Beef?

The composition of the hymns is in perfect harmony with the end for which they are intended, that is, liturgical prayer, chanted prayer.

A composition of some importance, dating from a period about two years later than Tansillo's piece, is an 'ecloga pastorale' by the 'mestissimo giovane' Luca di Lorenzo of Siena.

His most important separate prose composition is his Essay of Dramatic Poesy, a work which should be read by all who wish to know some of the foundation principles of criticism.

In the literature, almost the only very striking composition is Sir Walter Scott's illustration of Wilkie's painting of the baronet's own family, which, having been copied into every newspaper, we do not reprint.

To MARCIA STUART BROOKS Whose teaching first demonstrated to the authors that composition could become a delight and pleasure, this book is dedicated......

The work of a correct and regular writer is a garden accurately formed and diligently planted, varied with shades, and scented with flowers; the composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend their branches, and pines tower in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelter to myrtles and to roses; filling the eye with awful pomp, and gratifying the mind with endless diversity.

The composition is i, possessive pronoun, third person, singular; pal, postposition, by; nemoani, singular of the present in ni of the impersonal form of the verb nemi, to live, with the meaning to do habitually that which the verb expresses.

But this is itself a light-minded contempt; a deeper insight would change the tone, and help to remove the disgraceful slovenliness and feebleness of composition which deface the majority of grave works, except those written by Frenchmen, who have been taught that composition is an art and that no writer may neglect it.

Composition is his principal amusement.

The three remaining compositions (expressly for the work) are a Song by T. Bradford, Esq.; a Scotch Song, by Mr. Feist; and the following pathetic Lines, by the Rev. Thomas Dale: Oft as the broad sun dips Beneath the western sea, A prayer is on my lips, Dearest!

The average compositions of these fuels (considering only the heating agents), as deduced from the analysis of eminent chemists, are: PERCENTAGE BY WEIGHT.

Another composition of Tuscan origin is the Lilia, first printed in 1538, and composed throughout in polished octaves.

he answered, "I know which I had rather read" (meaning the Odyssey).' 'Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.'

"No composition in our language," opined Dr. Johnson, "has been oftener perused,"an opinion quite incredible until one perceives how intimately the poem harmonizes with the prevalent mood of its contemporary readers.

a c c d d c. Thus far all the compositions treated have been strophes, of which all the lines have the same number of syllables.

Independently therefore of their value as poems, these compositions are a real service rendered to historical literature; and the author has made this service greater by his prefaces, which will do more than the work of a hundred dissertations in rendering that true conception of early Roman history, the irrefragable establishment of which has made Niebuhr illustrious, familiar to the minds of general readers.

His last dramatic composition was the tragedy, Pizarro, produced in 1799.

He believes that all Turner's "composition" was an arrangement of remembrances summoned just as they were wanted, and each in its fittest place.

His becoming a writer of plays was a necessary consequence; for the theatres, newly opened after so long silence, were resorted to with all the ardour inspired by novelty; and dramatic composition was the only line which promised something like an adequate reward to the professors of literature.

There is hardly a tissue in the body from which phosphorus, in combination with lime, is absent; so that the composition of lucifer-matches is by no means the most important use of this element.

The composition of natural sea-water is, in a thousand parts, approximately, as follows: Water, 964 parts; Common Salt, 27; Chloride of Magnesium, 3.6; Chloride of Potassium, 0.7; Sulphate of Magnesia, (Epsom Salts,) 2; Sulphate of Lime, 1.4; Bromide of Magnesium, Carbonate of Lime, etc., .02 to .03 parts.

The composition of this new government was a masterpiece of political machinery.