The first is the most beautiful, and received its name from the translator and editor, Richard Morris, in 1864.

The first of these are the most brilliant and are perhaps not excelled or even equaled by any other in the world, with the solitary exception of Passage des Victor Emanuel of Milan, in Italy.

It was also the first nude statue of modern times; and once again one has the satisfaction of recognizing that the first was the best.

The first is a small fly, with a palish yellow body, and slender, beautiful wings, which rest on the back as it floats down the water.

The first is a kind of ode "to the Daisy," very flat, feeble, and affected; and in diction as artificial, and as much encumbered with heavy expletives as the theme of an unpractised schoolboy....

The first is, however, the most perfect and most precious as a work of art.

" "The first is your Quest of the Sangreal.

The first of these is a fragment in the gallery of Buda-Pesth, representing two figures in a landscape.

The first was the growing section of her anti-militaristic citizens, and the second was the combination of Great Powers which she made up her mind she must fight sooner or later if she would gain that place in the sun which had dazzled her so long.

The first of these was one Hervagaut, who, when discovered to be a tailor's son, was condemned in 1802 to four years' imprisonment.

The first in the field was ANASTASIUS GRÜN (the pen-name of Count Anton von Auersperg, 1806-1876).

The first of these which came under my notice was an enormous black parrot (Microglossus aterrimus) with crimson cheeks; at Cape York it feeds upon the cabbage of various palms, stripping down the sheath at the base of the leaves with its powerful, acutely-hooked upper mandible.

" [Footnote 24: The "new Guido" is his friend Guido Cavalcante (now dead); the "first" is Guido Guinicelli, for whose writings Dante had an esteem; and the poet, who is to "chase them from the nest," caccerà di nido (as the not very friendly metaphor states it), is with good reason supposed to be himself!

The first was a jockey in white, closely followed by another in pale blue and red, then two together, one in red, the other in red and yellow; our Kuba in orange and black was last but one, followed by a jockey in white and blue.

The first of the three above-mentioned, is the cross at Geddington, about three miles from Kettering, in Northamptonshire.

The first is the present geographical impossibility of nearly all the existing European states and empires; and the second is the steadily increasing disproportion between the tortures and destructions inflicted by modern warfare and any possible advantages that may arise from it.

The first that came across were Messrs. Bonny and Horden.

The first of these is the sick and beaten native of it who comes back to the world which he has never loved or trusted, but in which he was born and reared.

The first, according to the date, was a lieutenant in the English navy, Verney-Howet Cameron.

The first was the very large number of Belgian soldiers wounded only in the legs, and, secondly, many of the soldiers seem to have collapsed through sheer exhaustion.

And I have in my eye now a whole street raised, and running after a proclamation or express-crier, as if the first was a thief, the other his pursuers.

In that month he presented to the King his memorable Six Edicts, the first of which was the most celebrated state paper he ever wrote.

"The chief causes which will inevitably bring about a smaller crop next year, unless promptly removed by national action, are six in number, of which the first is the shortage of farm labor.

The first that ever wrote in physic to any purpose, was Hippocrates, and his disciple and commentator Galen, whom Scaliger calls Fimbriam Hippocratis; but as [4088]Cardan censures them, both immethodical and obscure, as all those old ones are, their precepts confused, their medicines obsolete, and now most part rejected.

The first was a brief note to this effect: "A faithful heart, which intends honourably and kindly towards you, expects you this evening."