As I moved along, I noticed that the floor was composed of solid rock, in places covered with a damp mould, in others bare, or almost so, save for a thin coating of light-grey dust.

Why there should have seemed something quite satisfactory and composing in this explanation I cannot tell, but so it was.

I remember his playing me one day a wedding march he had composed for the marriage of one of the archdukes.

Her poems were composed at once, with scarcely a correction.

Barbary was again conquered, and the popular songs composed on that occasion reproached them for the folly of their attempt.

It is, I flatter myself, composed with no ordinary address; nevertheless I will not conceal from thee that I place my hopes rather on thy beauty of person than on my beauty of style.

For example, in the edition of 1807, there is a short series described thus, "Poems, composed during a tour, chiefly on foot."

They talked it over for a time, perfecting the details, and then became as calm and composed as a group of prisoners might.

For elements are always, indigent of each other, and that which is composed from elements is indigent of the elements.

That the psalms were composed under divine inspiration, and that it is well known that from the beginning of the Church they were used not only to foster the piety of the faithful, who offered "the sacrifice of praise to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips confessing to His name" (Heb. xiii. 15), butthat retaining the custom of the Old Lawthey held a conspicuous place in both the liturgy and Divine Office of the New Law.

For instance, at the present moment her features were composed to the utmost gravity.

The Histories of Susanna, of the Prodigal Son, of Judith and Holofernes, and of Esther, are among the first; and are said to have been composed about the year 1560.

Honoria had been only able to obey her in sending a favourite ring of hers, and with it the last stanzas which she had composed before her death: 'Twin stars, aloft in ether clear, Around each other roll away, Within one common atmosphere Of their own mutual light and day.

Horace Walpole (Letters, v. 30) writes: 'Have you seen that delightful paper composed out of scraps in the newspapers?

Poems which were several years in process of composition, having been laid aside, and taken up repeatedly; 'e.g. The Prelude', which was composed between the years 1799 and 1805are placed in the year in which they were finished.

[208] The liberal views of the Broad Churchmen and their attitude to the Bible gradually produced some effect upon those who differed most from them; and nowadays there is probably no one who would not admit, at least, that such a passage as Genesis, Chapter XIX, might have been composed without the direct inspiration of the Deity.

Thus I lived mighty comfortably, my mind being entirely composed by resigning to the will of God, and throwing myself wholly upon the disposal of his providence.

'This is a tribute which a painter owes to an architect who composed like a painter; and was defrauded of the due reward of his merit by the wits of his time, who did not understand the principles of composition in poetry better than he did; and who knew little, or nothing, of what he understood perfectly, the general ruling principles of architecture and painting.'

Whether the opinion can with probability be maintained of those among more recent writers who have endeavoured to show from merely internal indications or an inaccurate interpretation of the sacred text that not a few of the psalms were composed after the time of Esdras and Nehemias, or even after the time of the Macchabees? ANSWER:

These provinces composed above a third of the whole French monarchy, and were much superior, in extent and opulence, to those territories which were subjected to the immediate jurisdiction and government of the king.

Respecting this letter an Italian critic observes that "it is the most ancient known writing of Amerigo relating to his voyages to the New World, having been composed within a month after his return from his second voyage, and remaining buried in our archives for a long time.

He appears to have a perfectly dreadful power to hang everybody; he considers her strongest avowal of present personal dislike the most promising indication she can give of eternal future infatuation with him, and his powerful mode of reasoning is more profound and composing than an article in a New York newspaper on a War in Europe.

This sonnet, originally entitled 'To a Friend, composed near Calais, on the Road leading to Ardres, August 7th, 1802', was addressed to Robert Jones, of Plas-yn-llan, near Ruthin, Denbighshire, a brother collegian at Cambridge, and afterwards a fellow of St. John's College, and incumbent of Soulderne, near Deddington, in Oxfordshire.

At least one poem included by Boccaccio in his Ameto is a strict eclogue, composed throughout in terza rima, which was destined to become the standard verse-form for 'pastoral,' as ottava rima for 'rustic,' composition.

This I will pass over; and further, by Jupiter, also the affairs of Gabinius, against whom, you prepared accusers and then pled his cause in such a way that he was condemned; and the pamphlets which you compose against your friends, in regard to which you feel yourself so guilty that you do not dare to make them public.