I must have written to say how much I had enjoyed his fine book The Building Of Eternal Rome, and I found he had not regretted giving me the highest mark in his old course on the later Latin poets, although in my final examination I had ignored the questions and filled the bluebook with a comparison of Propertius and Coleridge.

he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.

However, an initial perusal and comparison of some of the famous passages with the same parts of other versions seems to speak well of the efforts of the British Biblical scholars.

But by comparison with the railroad, the motor car is a relatively new object of popular worship, so it is too much to hope that it may be brought within the bounds of civilized usage quickly and easily.

Studying them, McFeeley could not help make comparison with the Andrus couple.

A survey of practices and/or policies in other states concerning assignment and use of state automobiles reveals several points for comparison with Rhode Island's practices.

The accuracy of measuring the total electrical energy entering an exploding wire during a few microseconds was verified when two independent types of comparison with the heat energy produced had an uncertainty of less than 2 percent.

I would expect that sales at retail in the first half of 1961 might be below 1960 by some 10 - 15% but that second-half levels should show a favorable comparison, with a possibility of quite strong demand late in the year if business conditions recover as some recent forecasts suggest they will.

Two of the fluids showed a high-positive normal pressure when undergoing shear, and two showed small negative pressures which were negligible in comparison with the amount of the positive pressures generated by the other two.

In all cases the activity against Af cells was spread over a wider area than that with Af cells, regardless of the type of test ( saline, albumin, indirect Coombs ) used for comparison.

Anatomically, the horse lung appears to be remarkably like that of man, insofar as this can be ascertained from comparison of our findings in the horse with those of others ( Birnbaum, '54 ) in the human being.

Whether this abnormal TSH differs chemically from pituitary TSH, or is, alternatively, normal TSH with its period of effectiveness modified by some other blood constituent, cannot be decided without chemical study of the activity in the blood of these patients and a comparison of the substance responsible for the blood activity with pituitary Aj.

And I have established that the action of municipal, county, or state school boards or boards of education is small, infinitesimally small in comparison with the number of districts.

It is as follows: `` The usual sensitivity tests showed that the specific qualities of skin-perceptiveness ( pressure, pain, temperature ), as well as the kinesthetic sensations ( muscular feelings, feelings in the tendons and joints ), were, as such, essentially intact, although they seemed, in comparison with normal reactions, to be somewhat diminished over the entire body.

Here he put a small man, whose missing hands might have left his function doubtful, until comparison with the first sketches showed that when the artist came back to the beginning, this was to be the closing figure of the party of `` forty-niners '', and was to hold a basket.

Hrothgar's court bard sings of the encounters at Finnsburg ( lines 1068 - 1159 ), and improvises the tale of Beowulf's exploits in a complimentary comparison of the Geatish visitor with Sigemund ( lines 871 - 892 ) ; ;

In this respect, the general palatability and individual acceptance of most radiosterilized foods has, to date, been found to be low in comparison with fresh and commercially processed foods.

`` Ceilings '' were judged by comparison with known mountain heights and cloud positions.

Decide first what the place is worth to you and your family as a home in comparison with what it would cost to live in town.

Tsunami are so shallow in comparison with their length that in the open ocean they are hardly detectable.

You may have misgivings about certain aspects of our military establishment -- I certainly do -- but you know any comparison of over-all American strength with over-all Soviet strength finds the United States not only superior, but so superior both in present weapons and in the development of new ones that our advantage promises to be a permanent feature of U.S.-Soviet relations for the foreseeable future.

In the former, the encounter with multiple, distinct cultures, often very different in organization and language from those of Europe, has led to a continuing emphasis on cross-cultural comparison and a receptiveness to certain kinds of cultural relativism.

The Hittite testimony reflects an early form, which may also be surmised from comparison of Cypriot Απειλων with Doric Απελλων.

Its network of small colonies in Africa and the Pacific paled in comparison to the British and French empires.

During the late 1990s, the comparison of the American war archives, which had not been done before, with the French and German ones as well as two court cases which finally settled some of the heirs ' rights ( Gentili di Giuseppe and Rosenberg families ) allowed more accurate investigations.

The word " baroque " ( probably ) was used first in late 18th century French about the irregular natural pearl shape and later about an architectural style perceived to be " irregular " in comparison to the highly regular Neoclassical architecture of that time.

The President of the Republic is paid a salary according to a pay grade defined in comparison to the pay grades of the most seniors members of the French Civil Service (" out of scale ", hors échelle, those whose pay grades are known as letters and not as numeric indices ).

Average tax rates were higher in Britain than France the years before the French Revolution, twice in per capita income comparison, but they were mostly placed on international trade.

It constructed a narrative of cultural continuity, set in opposition to the violent disjunctions of Revolutionary France, a comparison common to the period, as expressed in Thomas Carlyle's The French Revolution: A History and Charles Dickens ' Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities.

A comparison of some common words in French, Cree, and Michif:

In comparison, the 2005 refusal of the French electorate to vote for the proposed European Constitution was interpreted by some — in particular the French Communist Party and far-left parties such as LO or the LCR — as a popular refusal of libéralisme, which the European Union is perceived to embody.

This U-shaped plan of the house with the terraces is a device that again recalls Maisons, where Mansart intended " to indicate that his château was conceived in a noble tradition of French design while at the same time emphasizing its modernity in comparison to predecessors.

Among the audience was Claude Debussy, who especially cherished Castor et Pollux, revived in 1903: " Gluck's genius was deeply rooted in Rameau's works ... a detailed comparison allows us to affirm that Gluck could replace Rameau on the French stage only by assimilating the latter's beautiful works and making them his own.

Between 1838 – 78, an edition appeared in Paris by French scholar J. Mohl, who based it on a comparison of 30 manuscripts.

by Giannina Braschi includes a debate between artists and poets concerning the merits of Artaud's " multiple talents " in comparison to the singular talents of other French writers.

However, by comparison the French campaign on the Piedmontese plain was far from successful.

The French military at the time considered the Chauchat's performance as inferior in comparison to the reliable heavy Hotchkiss M1914 machine gun.

Sainte-Beuve has, with benevolent sarcasm, surnamed the author " the Rollin of French History ," and the praise and the blame implied in the comparison are both perfectly well deserved.

A comparison is often drawn between the American action painting and the French tachisme.

For example, it has been noted that infants raised in French speaking environments display greater amounts of rising intonation in comparison to infants raised in English speaking environments.

* The German Luftwaffes chief of intelligence, Colonel Josef " Beppo " Schmid, reports that the British Royal Air Force and French Air Force are " clearly inferior in strength and armament in comparison to the Luftwaffe ," that even an entry into World War II by the United States would not alone improve the status of Allied air power during 1940, and that British fighters stood little chance in combat with the German Messerschmitt Bf 110 twin-engine fighter.

Size comparison of the French ( orange ) and German ( green ) specimens, with a human

In comparison, the French historians Belmas and Lapène place Soult's losses at 7, 000.

The Die Brücke artists ' emotionally agitated paintings of city streets and sexually charged events transpiring in country settings make their French counterparts, the Fauves, seem tame by comparison.

The Catalan names of communes are taken from the Enciclopèdia catalana and are intended for comparison with the official French names: they do not indicate the current or former linguistic status of the commune.

* Paschal Greeting, see Orthodox Wiki for a comparison, for example the French greeting at Orthodox Wiki is more accurate: " Le Christ est réscussité!