I am informed however, that Mr Powell resolves to excell his Adversaries in their own Way; and introduce Larks in his next Opera of Susanna, or Innocence betrayed, which will be exhibited next Week with a Pair of new Elders.'

In this respect why the Moderns excell the Ancients.

Seeme to excell thine Arte

"My mynde to me a kyngdome is, Suche preasente joyes therin I fynde, That it excells all other blisse, That earth affordes or growes by kynde; Thoughe muche I wante which moste would have, Yet still my mynde forbiddes to crave. "No princely pompe, no wealthy store, No force to winne the victorye, No wilye witt to salve a sore, No shape to feade a loving eye; To none of these I yielde as thrall, For why?

It is in this scene Mr. Barry excells all his cotemporaries in tragedy; he there shews his power over our passions, and bids the heart bleed, in every accent of anguish.

Chemistry. "Let modest Foster, if he will, excell Ten Metropolitans in preaching well."Pope, p. 414.

Why the English excell the Moderns.

The devil, amazed and disgusted at laws which "excell the paines of hell," turns to go, whereupon the apparitor seeks to arrest and fine him for traveling on the Sabbath.

And all the foule which in his flood did dwell Gan flock about these twaine, that did excell 120 The rest so far as Cynthia doth shend** The lesser stars.

Perhaps in his presence we shall win some smiles, For I have noted oft in a simple braine, (Only striving to excell it self)

Or else in heaven, that no man may it see With sinfull eyes, for feare it do deflore, Is perfect Beautie, which all men adore; 40 Whose face and feature doth so much excell All mortal sence, that none the same may tell.

Tis the mind of man, and woman to affect new fashions; but to our Mynsatives for sooth, if he come like to your Besognio, or your bore, so he be rich, or emphaticall, they care not; would I might never excell a dutch Skipper in Courtship, if I did not put distaste into my cariage of purpose; I knew I should not please them.

In 1785 a contemporary noted that "the General is remarked for writing a most elegant letter," adding that, "like the famous Addison, his writing excells his speaking," and Jefferson said that "he wrote readily, rather diffusely, in an easy and correct style.

"It much excells all other studies and arts.

what bootes it to see earthlie thing In glorie or in greatnes to excell, 555 Sith time doth greatest things to ruine bring?

Take, for example, the lines from Eglantine's lament: Since that the gods will not my woe redresse, Since men are altogether pittilesse, Ye silent ghosts unto my plaints give eare; Give ear, I say, ye ghosts, if ghosts can heare, And listen to my plaints that doe excell The dol'rous tune of ravish'd Philomel.