The Proem, as was most fitting, is entirely devoted to the praise of the Laureate himself; and contains an account, which cannot fail to be very interesting, both to his Royal auditors and to the world at large, of his early studies and attainmentsthe excellence of his geniusthe nobleness of his views and the happiness that has been the result of these precious gifts.

We have no toleration for this sort of perversity, or prostitution of great gifts; and do not think it necessary to qualify the expression of opinions which we have formed with as much positiveness as deliberation.

Long habits of seclusion, and an excessive ambition of originality, can alone account for the disproportion which seems to exist between this author's taste and his genius; or for the devotion with which he has sacrificed so many precious gifts at the shrine of those paltry idols which he has set up for himself among his lakes and his mountains.

The birthday gifts which on the great occasion he was to offer to her seemed, as Charlotte had arranged them, far too insignificant.

The claim that "the Chinese race" produced the high Chinese civilization entirely by its own efforts, thanks to its special gifts, has become just as untenable as the other theory that immigrants from the West, some conceivably from Europe, carried civilization to the Far East.

Typical of this culture is its wonderfully fine pottery, apparently used as gifts to the dead.

They acknowledged their dependence by sending "gifts" to the lord in the town.

Later these gifts became institutionalized and turned into a form of tax.

Closer research has shown that Shih Huang-ti was evidently an average man without any great gifts, that he was superstitious, and shared the tendency of his time to mystical and shamanistic notions.

So Gugemar gave gifts to all those about his person, and bidding farewell, took leave, and departed from the Court.

Gifts she gave to all alike.

By gifts such as these they sought to gain my favour, but how might lady bereave three of life, so as to cherish one.

The knight thanked him earnestly for the gifts.

I gave him greeting in your name, and granted him your gifts.

I said no more to him, nor he to me; but if he received not your gifts in tenderness, I am the more deceived.

At the end Eliduc thanked her courteously for the gifts she had sent him; never was grace so precious and so kind.

Largely he gained, largely he spent, and willingly bestowed gifts of all that he had.

They could also throw messages in writing, and divers pretty gifts, the one to the other.

Thereat he gave many rich gifts to his counts and barons, and to the Knights of the Round Table.

Launfal bestowed rich gifts.

So seeing him brave and courteous, she esteemed him for the gifts which gained him the favour of the King, and they loved together in their youth.

"Though I have all gifts, and have not charity, I am nothing.

In time, the colonists craved the apples of their own latitude, and the peach; those two fruits, so abundant and so delicious in their ancient homes; but the novelty was still on them, and it required time to learn the fact that we tire less of the apple, and the peach, and the potato, than of any other of the rarest gifts of nature.

The peach and the grape are the two most precious of the gifts of Providence, in the way of fruits.

It is true, nothing remarkable or unexpected met their eyes in the shape of artificial accessories; but the bountiful gifts of Providence, and the natural beauties of the spot, as much exceeded their anticipations as it did their power of imagining such glories!