A little bourgeois comfort, a little bourgeois sense of right, cry the moderns.

"It was this that characterized the great men of antiquity; it is this, which must distinguish moderns who would tread in their steps."Ib., p. 341.

On the contrary, so far as utility constitutes merit in a novel, we have no hesitation in preferring the moderns to their predecessors.

She models like Bernini, has excelled the moderns in the similitudes of her busts, and has lately begun one in marble.

A Greek feast, gathering at the same board the most aristocratic moderns, garbed in the antique peplum, as the caprice of a great artist.

His own life may have been clouded towards the last by the mists of disappointment, but to us admiring moderns he is all sunshine.

But Houbraken is now known to have been no more honest than his successors in portrait engraving: although physiognomy and craniology ought to help the moderns out in these matters.

To him a rude, uncivil, impolite, ungracious, uncourteous, unpolished, uncouth, boorish, blunt, bluff, gruff, brusk, or burly person was as the unplaned lumber or the unpolished gem; and we imitative moderns still call such a man rough.

The accepted theory which assumed that the forms of poetry had been settled in the past and existed to be applied, though it concerned itself mainly with the ancient writers, included also two moderns in its scope.

She has a mouth which would strike you as large,it is five and a half inches across,but when she speaks, and you hear the combined wisdom of Solomon, and Plato, and Socrates, and Solon, and the rest of the ancients (not to mention the moderns), falling from her lips, your only wonder is that her mouth keeps within its present limits.

Perhaps, too, the rich blood of the Falernian grape produced a more godlike delirium than the vulgar brandy which oversets the moderns!

This is a pompous eulogium; but let us suspend our opinion, and hear that of Plutarch, who, being an ancient, well deserves our attention, at least, after we have heard the moderns before him.

I often tell the old stories in which d'Elbène, de Charleval, and the Chevalier de Riviere cheer up the "moderns."

Down the weary of the pioneer dashes the palatial modern .