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• 'Marino Faliero' was the first of his productions in which, relinquishing the so-called classic rules, he endeavored, as a French critic fitly remarks, to introduce a kind of eclecticism in stage literature; a bold attempt, tempered with prudent reserve, in which he wisely combined the processes favored by the new school with current tradition. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
• And concerning the small variations which they contain, we can fitly quote the words of a fine old English scholar, Bentley: "Even put them into the hands of a knave or a fool, and yet with the most sinistrous and absurd choice, he shall not extinguish the light of any one chapter, nor so disguise Christianity but that every feature of it will still be the same. The Books of the New Testament
• The enlightened throughout the world will concur in the opinion that this proud and most honourable badge was most unfitly bestowed.
• I had in my days not unfitly been likened to Sir Philip, only with this difference - that I had the better leg and more amiable face.
• D. Whitney suggests in his very lucid and able article in vol.v. of the Journal of the American Oriental Society most fitly be called the Avestan dialect. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life
• Science since Darwin is fact upon fact, instance upon instance, experiment upon experiment, principle upon principle, which fitly joined together by some master mind may establish some great truth.
• His physique had been what no word interprets so fitly as the Scotch word "braw," -- not huge and unwieldy in size and strength, but manly and comely. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes
• The first verse of this chapter some join to the foregoing chapter, and make it (not unfitly) the close of that.
• The translucent and shining waters of the calm sea covered fragments of old Roman villas, which were interlaced by sea-weed, and received diamond tints from the chequering of the sun-beams; the blue and pellucid element was such as Galatea might have skimmed in her car of mother of pearl; or Cleopatra, more fitly than the Nile, have chosen as the path of her magic ship. Introduction, I.1
• This work of organization was fitly entrusted to St. John, who for so many years was left upon earth to "tarry" for the Lord, on Whose Breast he had leaned, and Whose teaching had filled his soul with adoring love, and with those depths of spiritual knowledge which are stored up for us in the "Theological Gospel. A Key to the Knowledge of Church History (Ancient)