Classics [noun]

He edited nearly forty works, some of them classics, but principally relative to ancient English history and antiquities.

We talk about the classics, the sources of my knowledge, Russian schools, social conditions.

He won prizes for classics and for verse-writing, and the vacations he spent as a tutor in the western Highlands.

Most of the books are either editions of the classics or theological works, but there are a few on medical and botanical subjects.

Now let the great English classics hide their diminished heads and pale their ineffectual fires!

Where was that rich colouring in the Italian classics which he had been led to expect from English mezzotints?

In schools there is immense interest in history, archæology, and the classics.

Classics and works which are in every one's hands I have not thought it necessary to include in the list.

It prevents also such instruction in the classics as must necessarily deprave the estimate of woman.

They have slight pretension to literary quality, yet they are among the classics of French literature.