" The character of the man, thus fatally excepted, I have no purpose to delineate.

Those shapeless eyes which the bark of trees delineates on the trunks were gazingat what?

Most of the people of the settlement were in the open air, the men closing their day's works in the fields, and the women and children busied beneath shades, with their wheels and needles; the whole presenting such a picture of peaceful, rural life, as a poet might delight to describe, or an artist to delineate with his pencil.

It may not have come up to the exalted ideal of its author; it may be defaced by political flatteries; it may not have the force and originality of the Iliad,but it is superior in art, and delineates the passion of love with more delicacy than can be found in any Greek author.

" He delineates character with great clearness and power; his speeches are noble rhetorical compositions; his sentences are rhythmical cadences.

Although the scene of it was laid in ancient Greece, it delineates the institution of chivalry and the manners and sentiments it produced.

The gentleman already mentioned, who has transmitted some account of our author to posterity, delineates his character in the following manner.

Reeve also delineates the species collected by Cumming in the Philippines, without precise mention of the locality, as being larger (38 mm.),

But it contains many passages of great beauty and tenderness, and delineates in exquisite colours the poetry and romance of College friendships.

From the moment in which he began to delineate this miraculous figure, a singular change seemed to have taken place in his whole nature.

The circumstance that I felt precluded from making any serious objections, added to the intensity of my suffering, left me in a state of grief, regret, indignation, wonder, pity and tenderness, that it is wholly out of my power to delineate.

The style of building which we now call Queen Elizabeth's, is here admirably described, both with regard to its beauties and defects; and the third and fourth stanzas delineate the fantastic manners of her time with equal truth and humour.

This is a part of the horrors of slavery which, I believe, no one has ever attempted to delineate; I wonder not at it, it mocks all power of language.

" When Burns, with equal force and delicacy, delineates the pure and unsophisticated affection of young, intelligent, and innocent country people, as the most enchanting of human feelings, he gives additional sweetness to the picture by placing his lovers "Beneath the milk-white thorn, that scents the evening gale.

By the useful and interesting study of physiology, we are enabled to define the construction of his system, to delineate the muscles, nerves, veins and fibres, and the complicated mass that forms the man, with all their separate dependencies upon each other.

But the mind, the great moving spring of action that gives motion to the whole, who can analyze or delineate?

Yes, in my dialogue between him and Eubulides, he delineates Canning as a clumsy and vulgar man.

Sabrina, from Milton's Comus; Mr. Etty delineates the female form with peculiar accuracy and delicacy, and in the subject before us he has displayed his usual ability.

Dr. Holmes, our genial and many-sided poet-laureate, who is also a philosopher, in his "Life of Emerson," has finely worked out the theory that no man writes other than his own experience: that consciously or otherwise an author describes himself in the characters he draws; that when he loves the character he delineates, it is in some measure his own, or at least one of which he feels its tendencies and possibilities belong to himself.

An Englishman is seldom out of humour, without proclaiming it to all the world; and the most forcible motives of interest, or expediency, cannot always prevail on him to assume a more engaging external than that which delineates his feelings.

An Englishman is seldom out of humour, without proclaiming it to all the world; and the most forcible motives of interest, or expediency, cannot always prevail on him to assume a more engaging external than that which delineates his feelings.

The story is of Hugo's own invention, and is intended to delineate on the one hand the savagery, and on the other the knight-errantry, of the Middle Ages.

The painter cannot give us the true, living image of a waterfall on canvasthe movement is wanting; how can one describe it in words, delineate this majestic grandeur, brilliancy of colour, and arrowy flight?

Following the leopard, or papal beast of Rev. 13, in consecutive order, comes the two-horned beast, whose appearance the prophet delineates, and whose work he describes, in the following language: Verse 11.

The life, genius, and character of Mr. Choate present a stimulating, but not an easy task to him who essays to delineate them.