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Cowper was, in fact, the father of a new school of poetry a school of which Southey, and Coleridge, and Wordsworth were in the next generation distinguished representatives. He was essentially a Christian poet, and in a different sense from that in which Milton, and George Herbert, and Young were Christian poets.
"'However high the tree, the leaves fall to the ground, and your hour has come at last, O detestable Li Ting! said Yung, who had heard the speakers and crept upon them unperceived. 'As for my distinguished and immaculate father-in-law, doubtless the heat has affected his indefatigable brains, or he would not have listened to your contemptible suggestion. For yourself, draw!
What if, after all, they should stay away, ignoring the great courtesy which this most charming of old ladies never had he seen one so lovable or distinguished had extended to them; and she a stranger, too, and all because her brother Peter had asked her to be kind to a boy like himself.
A genuine love of painting and sculpture, and perhaps of music, seems often to have distinguished men capable of every social crime, and to have formed a fine and hard enamel over their characters. Perhaps it is because such tastes are artificial, the product of cultivation, and, when highly developed, imply a great remove from natural simplicity.
He was singularly free from prejudice of any kind a sort of original, blank-paper mind, on which nothing had been written save what he had consciously written there himself as the result of his own observations of life. I knew other young Americans, and perceived and could have pointed out characteristics which distinguished them. But Powers was not like them.
No visitor to that library, and they numbered many distinguished visitors, American and foreign, from Emerson and Alcott and George Macdonald to others less well known, dreamed that the serene marble features of Goethe would be replaced by the granite fissures of the face of Bismarck; and that Auerbach's Black Forest Stories would be less known than Albert Ballin's fleet of mercantile ships.
The compromise in terms recognized the right of the people of the territories to be admitted to the Union with or without slavery as they might desire that was its very essence as distinguished from the Compromise of 1820.
Schemselnihar was easily distinguished from the rest by her fine shape and majestic air, as well as by a sort of mantle, of very fine stuff of gold and sky-blue, fastened to her shoulders over her other apparel, which was the most handsome, best contrived, and most magnificent, that could be thought of.
For some minutes the ship stood on with her head to the north-west, all hands anxiously watching the sails, and casting a look every now and then towards the dark outline of the shore, which could be distinguished through the gloom. The current was all this time drifting us to the northward, but it appeared to me that we were getting no farther from the coast.
"I am the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Horton. Mr. Horton is a cousin of mine." "I pass their house on my way home," was the prompt reply. Elated at receiving the marked attention of this distinguished stranger, Mignon exerted herself to the utmost to be agreeable during their walk. From the few words she had heard pass between the professor and Mr.
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