classics

The idea that the dead often passed into trees is well illustrated in the classics.

He wrote his father that he disliked mathematics, and that he intended to concentrate his time and attention upon the classics.

This question has been well considered by Mr. Legge in his valuable translation of the Chinese Classics.

Mr. Lanier's books present to boy readers the old English classics of history and legend in an attractive form.

The average schoolboy is prevented from enjoying the classics by being bored with them when he is too young to understand them.

Besides, we havent that old tyrant Skeel to deal with now in the classics.

To an accurate knowledge of the Latin and Greek classics, he added a correct acquaintance with many of the modern languages.

Such books are worth keeping on the shelves, even by the classics, for they are painted in colors which do not fade.

The rise of modern literature displaced the classics from their unique position as literary models.

He began to write poetry after a thorough course of reading in the Latin and English classics.