Page:The king's English (IA kingsenglish00fowlrich).pdf/205

With difficulty could he be persuaded...

Disputes were rife in both cases, but in both cases have the disputes been arranged.—Times.

Almost unanimously do Americans assume that...—Times.

They hardly resembled real ships, so twisted and burnt were the funnels and superstructure; rather did they resemble the ghosts of a long departed squadron...Times.

His love of romantic literature was as far as possible from that of a mind which only feeds on romantic excitements. Rather was it that of one who was so moulded...—Hutton.

There is nothing to show that the Asclepiads took any prominent share in the work of founding anatomy, physiology, zoology, and botany. Rather do these seem to have sprung from the early philosophers.—Huxley.

His works were ordered to be burnt by the common hangman. Yet was the multitude still true to him.—Macaulay.

Henry Fox, or nobody, could weather the storm which was about to burst. Yet was he a person to whom the court, even in that extremity, was unwilling to have recourse.—Macaulay.

A book of 'levities and gravities', it would seem from the author's dedication, is this set of twelve essays, named after the twelve months.—Westminster Gazette.

The set epistolary pieces, one might say, were discharged before the day of Elia. Yet is there certainly no general diminution of sparkle or interest...—Times.

Futile were the endeavor to trace back to Pheidias' varied originals, as we are tempted to do, many of the later statues...—L. M. Mitchell.

Inevitably critical was the attitude that he adopted towards religion...Odious to him were, on the one hand,...—Journal of Education.

Finely conceived is this poem, and not less admirable in execution.—Westminster Gazette.

'The Rainbow and the Rose', by E. Nisbet, is a little book that will not disappoint those who know the writer's 'Lays and Legends'. Facile and musical, sincere and spontaneous, are these lyrics.–Westminster Gazette.

Then to the resident Medical Officer at the Brompton Hospital for Consumption for an authoritative opinion on the subject went the enquirer.–Westminster Gazette.