Sketches of Great PaintersStewart and Kidd Company, 1915 - 263 pages |
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... feeling that some knowledge of the great paint- ers and their product is as necessary an element in the culture of even the half - educated as is an ac- quaintance with the life and work of Shakspere and Tennyson , Hawthorne and Poe ...
... feeling that some knowledge of the great paint- ers and their product is as necessary an element in the culture of even the half - educated as is an ac- quaintance with the life and work of Shakspere and Tennyson , Hawthorne and Poe ...
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... feel great , because we belong to a great age , even though we individually have done nothing to make the age great . And the modern age is great because we can print more newspapers in an hour than Franklin could have printed in a ...
... feel great , because we belong to a great age , even though we individually have done nothing to make the age great . And the modern age is great because we can print more newspapers in an hour than Franklin could have printed in a ...
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... feel the terrors and the splendors of the night . One ought to be able to make the songs , the silences , the murmurs of the air heard . One must perceive infinity . " And again he cries out , " Oh , spaces which made me dream so when I ...
... feel the terrors and the splendors of the night . One ought to be able to make the songs , the silences , the murmurs of the air heard . One must perceive infinity . " And again he cries out , " Oh , spaces which made me dream so when I ...
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... feel the absolute quiet and repose , the solemn silence , that pervaded the picture . All those at least felt it who saw the picture on that Sunday morning . A sudden hush fell upon the noisy and merry party . They sat or stood before ...
... feel the absolute quiet and repose , the solemn silence , that pervaded the picture . All those at least felt it who saw the picture on that Sunday morning . A sudden hush fell upon the noisy and merry party . They sat or stood before ...
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... feeling is given by the American painter , Will H. Low , in an article on Millet . It is doubly interesting because the story relates to Robert Louis Stevenson . Mr. Low , at the time , is in Barbizon studying the art of the Master ...
... feeling is given by the American painter , Will H. Low , in an article on Millet . It is doubly interesting because the story relates to Robert Louis Stevenson . Mr. Low , at the time , is in Barbizon studying the art of the Master ...
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Page 190 - Here Reynolds is laid, and to tell you my mind, He has not left a wiser or better behind : His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand : His manners were gentle, complying, and bland ; Still born to improve us in every part, His pencil our faces, his manners our heart : To coxcombs averse, yet most civilly steering, When they judged without skill he was still hard of hearing.
Page 147 - And only the Master shall praise us. and only the Master shall blame: And no one shall work for money. and no one shall work for fame. But each for the joy of the working. and each. in his separate star. Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They Are!
Page 185 - And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Page 94 - And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us...
Page 52 - Hers is the head upon which all the ends of the world are come, and the eyelids are a little weary. It is a beauty wrought out from within upon the flesh, the deposit, little cell by cell, of strange thoughts and fantastic reveries and exquisite passions.
Page 29 - Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world.
Page 92 - Lindsay ought not to have admitted works into the gallery in which the ill-educated conceit of the artist so nearly approached the aspect of wilful imposture. I have seen, and heard, much of Cockney impudence before now ; but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face.
Page 174 - Which made my soul the worshipper and thrall Of earthly art is vain ; how criminal Is that which all men seek unwillingly. Those amorous thoughts which were so lightly dressed, What are they when the double death is nigh ? The one I know for sure, the other dread. Painting nor sculpture now can lull to rest My soul, that turns to His great love on high, Whose arms to clasp us on the cross were spread.
Page 53 - All the thoughts and experience of the world have etched and moulded there in that which they have of power to refine and make expressive the outward form, the animalism of Greece, the lust of Rome, the reverie of the middle age with its spiritual ambition and imaginative loves, the return of the Pagan world, the sins of the Borgias.