Shakspere frequently compares men to sheep.

Háfiz compares the bloom upon the cheek of his friend to the works of art executed by Manes, in which dark shadows, like velvety down upon the human face, excite no surprise.]

He then compares some passages, which Pope has imitated, or translated, with the imitation, or version, and gives the preference to the originals, perhaps, not always upon convincing arguments.

On occasion of the second, he digresses, according to his custom, into a learned dissertation on tragedies, and compares the English and French with the Greek stage.

Francis W. Newman, in his "Regal Rome," thus describes Cicero's eloquence: "He goes round and round his object, surveys it in every light, examines it in all its parts, retires and then advances, compares and contrasts it, illustrates, confirms, and enforces it, till the hearer feels ashamed of doubting a position which seems built on a foundation so strictly argumentative.

And compares him elsewhere with Wycherley: "Of all our modern wits, none seem to me Once to have touched upon true comedy, But hasty Shadwell and slow Wycherley.

[Footnote 4: The poet here compares his hero and heroine to two jealous "bulls," no happy comparison certainly.

Hence, after some temporary desire or passion has mastered his social instincts, he reflects and compares the now weakened impression of such past impulses with the ever-present social instincts; and he then feels that sense of dissatisfaction which all unsatisfied instincts leave behind them, and resolves to act differently for the future.

The ode compares his match against his antagonists with that of Herakles against the African giant Antaios.

Thus Poliziano, or Politian (of whom we shall hear more in the chapter on S. Marco) compares Simonetta to Venus, and in stanzas 100 and 101 speaks of her birth, describing her blown to earth over the sea by the breath of the Zephyrs, and welcomed there by the Hours, one of whom offers her a robe.

Strabo in the ninth book of his geography, compares Greece to the picture of a man, which comparison of his, Nic.

He compares them to "beasts, horses, and mules, in which there is no understanding."

Castruccius Castrucanus, a poor child, found in the field, exposed to misery, became prince of Lucca and Senes in Italy, a most complete soldier and worthy captain; Machiavel compares him to Scipio or Alexander.

Like a bad actor (so Plutarch compares such men in a tragedy, diadema fert, at vox non auditur:

My learned Reader will know very well the Reason why one of these Verses is printed in Roman Letter; and if he compares this Translation with the Original, will find that the three first Stanzas are rendred almost Word for Word, and not only with the same Elegance, but with the same short Turn of Expression which is so remarkable in the Greek, and so peculiar to the Sapphick Ode.

Their efforts to clear the bar compared with that of the Trojans as the soaring of an elephant compares with the flight of a butterfly.

(1) The Idea of inner freedom compares the will with the judgment, the conviction, the conscience of the agent himself.

He that reads many books must compare one opinion, or one style with another, and when he compares must necessarily distinguish, reject, prefer.

Art may admire and attempt to plant and to form combinations like hers; but whoever observes the wild combinations of a forest and compares them with the attempts of Art has little taste, if he do not acknowledge with astonishment the superiority of Nature's workmanship.

No other conservation question compares with this in the vital intimacy of its touch on every portion of our national life.

We have the mortification to learn, from the Dedication of "Aureng-Zebe," that Dryden only wanted encouragement to enter upon the composition of an epic poem, and to abandon the thriftless task of writing for the promiscuous audience of the theatre,a task which, rivalled as he had lately been by Crowne and Settle, he most justly compares to the labour of Sisyphus.

The poem, which opened with the enmity of the two families, closes with their reconciliation over the breathless remains of their children; and no violent, frightful, or discordant feeling, is suffered to mingle with that soft impression of melancholy left within the heart, and which Schlegel compares to one long, endless sigh.

No one, again, who has read the preceding pages relating to the treatment of women before romantic love existed, and compares it with their treatment at present, can fail to recognize the wonderful transformation brought about by gallantry and self-sacrificealtruistic habits which have changed men from ruffians to gentlemen.

He compares it to a tune that is always singing in the back of his mind, but which he can never identify nor whistle nor get rid of.

Photomicrograph by U.S. Forest Service] If one compares a heavy piece of pine with a light specimen it will be seen at once that the heavier one contains a larger proportion of late wood than the other, and is therefore considerably darker.