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...TNESS ............................................ 150 CHAPTER VIII OF THE ART OF CONFERENCE ............................................................ ... him, and if he will not inwardly receive it, he at least puts it on for a decoration. Our outward and inward structure is full of imperfection; but t... ...ess, that what I call freedom, simplicity, and plainness in my manners, is art and subtlety, and rather prudence than goodness, industry than nature, ... ...or they are full of mistrust, and ’tis hard to overreach them in their own art: witness the 13 Montaigne sad experience we have lately had.—[Montaign... ...gnorance: lay aside power and subtilty in common conversation; to preserve decorum and order ’tis enough-nay, crawl on the earth, if they so desire it... ... yet there is no complaint of it. In every- thing else a man may keep some decorum, all other opera- tions submit to the rules of decency; this cannot... ...sdom only is wholly within itself”—Cicero, De Fin., iii. 7.] I leave it to artists, and I know not whether or no they will be able to bring it about, ...

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...AMS......107 CHAPTER IX - BEGGARS...................................118 CHAPTER X - LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART............................................127 CHAPTER XII - A CHRISTMAS SERMON.........140...

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...PTER X - LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLE- MAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART............................................127 CHAPTER XII - A CHRIST... ...s of that glaring description which we count too obvious for the purposes of art. The landing at Jersey City was done in a stampede. I had a fixed sen... ...ly this air is to be considered good or bad; but it belongs to that class of art which may be best described as a brutal assault upon the feelings. Pa... ... full of deportment, solemnly courteous, and doing all things with grace and decorum. In dress they ran to colour and bright sashes. Not even the most... ...y, which is the only covered portion of the church, is filled with seats and decorated for the service; the Indians troop together, their bright dress... ...re still pretty in their confusion, and the great plain that contrives to be decorative in its emp- tiness. II IN SPITE OF ITS REALLY considerable ext... ...elieve that the name of Hills had become famous. Siron’s inn, that excellent artists’ barrack, was managed upon easy principles. At any hour of the ni... ...subsequent achievement appears dull and earthly in com- parison. We were all artists; almost all in the age of illusion, cultivating an imaginary geni... ...u may remind me, even with unfaltering and delighted industry, many thousand artists spend their lives, if the result be regarded, utterly in vain: a ...

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...G AWAKE.............................................................................................................................. 62 THE GHOST OF ART.................................................................................................................... 69 OUT OF TOWN .............................................................................................

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................................................. ........... 62 THE GHOST OF ART........................................................................... ...y collection of clocks, purporting to be the work of Parisian and Genevese artists—chiefly bilious faced clocks, supported on sickly white crutches, w... ...ing aspect. M. Feroce has saved so many people from drowning, and has been decorated with so many med als in consequence, that his stoutness seems a ... ...e joint Ducasse of the milliners and tailors, a wholesome knowledge of the art of making common and cheap things uncommon and pretty, by good sense an... ... littering the street; but, still, below these rents and gashes, layers of decomposing posters showed themselves, as if they were interminable. I thou... ...m and water. I embraced the oppor tunity of asking how many divisions the art and mystery of bill sticking comprised? He replied, three—auctioneers’ ... ...,) it fills my soul with terror at the British Institution, it lures young artists on to their destruction. Go where I will, the Ghost of Art, eternal... ...s delicious, and our breezy hills and downs, carpeted with wild thyme, and decorated with millions of wild flowers, are, on the faith of a pedestrian,... ...eously—and goes below. The re maining Mystery then smiles upon the sister artists (who, I am afraid, wouldn’t greatly mind stabbing each other), and ...

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...ilence which generally prevails at that time makes it particularly dear to artists, who grow contemplative, stand a few paces back from the pictures o... ...soothingness. Favored by the clear-obscure, the material skill employed by art to produce illusion entirely disappears. If the work is a picture, the ... ...vil alike. At this magic hour a young painter, a man of talent, who saw in art nothing but Art itself, was perched on a step-lad- der which helped him... ... of the ideal beauty which every artist creates for himself and whence his art proceeds. The features of the unknown belonged, so to say, to the refin... ...Champs-Elysees. The fame his talent had won him having made him one of the artists most dear to his country, he was beginning to feel free from want, ... ..., unanimous in hailing an unknown genius, still rang with sincere praises. Artists them- selves acknowledged Schinner as a master, and dealers cov- er... ...proprietors in whom there is a foregone and profound horror of repairs and deco- ration, one of the men who regard their position as Paris house-owner... ...e gratis of a comical scene with Monsieur Molineux as concerning cer- tain decorative repairs in his studio, was not surprised to see the dark greasy ... ...endidly fin- ished telescope, hanging over the small discolored glass that decorated the chimney. T o harmonize with this strange col- lection of furn...

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...and ask little reason wherefore. Of these four friends of ours, three were artists, or con- nected with art; and, at this moment, they had been simul-... ...re. Of these four friends of ours, three were artists, or con- nected with art; and, at this moment, they had been simul- taneously struck by a resemb... ...emplating. But we must do more than merely refer to this exquisite work of art; it must be described, however inadequate may be the effort to express ... ...nity in this strange yet true and natural conception of antique poetry and art. Praxiteles has subtly diffused throughout his work that mute mystery,w... ...ion had been carried on in a mood in which all imaginative people, whether artists or poets, love to indulge. In this frame of mind, they sometimes fi... ... those living models, dark, bushy bearded, wild of aspect and attire, whom artists convert into saints or as- sassins, according as their pictorial pu... ...sition could Miriam explain the identity of the dead Capuchin, quietly and decorously laid out in the nave of his convent church, with that of her mur... ...or of which consists of the consecrated earth of Jerusalem. It is smoothed deco- rously over the deceased brethren of the convent, and is kept quite f...

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... Roch, to see a famous piece of mosaic-work there. It is a famous work of art, and was bought by I don’t know what king for I don’t know how much mon... ...urt allegories were represented, which, atrocious as they were in point of art, might yet serve to attract the re- gard of the moraliser. There were F... ... the Duke of Wellington, done in a very characteristic style of Portuguese art. There is also a chapel, which has been decorated with much care and s... ...cteristic style of Portuguese art. There is also a chapel, which has been decorated with much care and sumptuousness of ornament—the altar sur- mount... ...s of an admirable clean- liness, many of the tall houses of rich and noble decorations, and all looking as if the city were in full prosperity. I have... ...hemselves round the dingy tablecloth of the club-house coffee-room, richly decorated with cold gravy and spilt beer. I heard there the very names of t... ...in the open spaces:sentries marching everywhere, and (this is a caution to artists) I am told have orders to run any man through who is discovered mak... ...llowing authentic drawing could be made, many were the stratagems the wily artists were obliged to employ, to subdue the shyness of the little Mariam....

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...and ask little reason wherefore. Of these four friends of ours, three were artists, or con- nected with art; and, at this moment, they had been simul-... ...re. Of these four friends of ours, three were artists, or con- nected with art; and, at this moment, they had been simul- taneously struck by a resemb... ...emplating. But we must do more than merely refer to this exquisite work of art; it must be described, however inadequate may be the effort to express ... ...nity in this strange yet true and natural conception of antique poetry and art. Praxiteles has subtly diffused throughout his work that mute mystery,w... ...ion had been carried on in a mood in which all imaginative people, whether artists or poets, love to indulge. In this frame of mind, they sometimes fi... ... those living models, dark, bushy bearded, wild of aspect and attire, whom artists convert into saints or as- sassins, according as their pictorial pu... ...sition could Miriam explain the identity of the dead Capuchin, quietly and decorously laid out in the nave of his convent church, with that of her mur... ...or of which consists of the consecrated earth of Jerusalem. It is smoothed deco- rously over the deceased brethren of the convent, and is kept quite f... ...n she cast me off, I had no longer any terms to keep with the reserves and decorums of my sex. Hilda has set me free! Pray tell her so, from Miriam, a...

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...sity. 3 H. G . Wells Ann Veronica A Modern Love Story by H. G. Wells “The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so c... ...ER F O HER F O HER FA A A A ATHER THER THER THER THER P P P P Par ar ar ar art 1 t 1 t 1 t 1 t 1 ONE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON in late September, Ann V eron... ...ed, “dammit!” with great bitter- ness as he faced it. P P P P Par ar ar ar art 2 t 2 t 2 t 2 t 2 ANN VERONICA STANLEY was twenty-one and a half years ... ...iping away her tedium. It was a large, littered, self-forgetful apartment, decorated with unframed charcoal sketches by various incipient masters; and... ...hose empty rooms, if they were empty, were the equivalents of astoundingly deco- rated predecessors. Perhaps it was just as well there was no inherite... ... of the day, in which successful Bohemianism, politicians, men of affairs, artists, sculptors, and cultivated noblemen generally, mingle together in t... ...come will vanish. Even un- believing biological demonstrators must respect decorum; and besides, you see—you were a student. We shall have— hardly any...

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...tist, who contemplates an indefinite succession of winters in this home of art (though his first thought was merely to improve him- self by a brief vi... ...an, the purple air of Italy over his canvas. He studies the old schools of art in the mountain towns where they were born, and where they are still to... ...netian palaces. Such summers as these, spent amid whatever is exquisite in art, or wild and pictur- esque in nature, may not inadequately repay him fo... ...n she cast me off, I had no longer any terms to keep with the reserves and decorums of my sex. Hilda has set me free! Pray tell her so, from Miriam, a... ..., when she cast me off, it severed some few remaining bonds between me and decorous womanhood. But were there anything to forgive, I do forgive her. M... ...y a hint of design or expression can glimmer through the dusk. Those early artists did well to paint their frescos. Glowing on the church-walls, they ... ...middle region of princes, cardinals, and ambassadors, and an upper tier of artists, just beneath the unattainable sky,—left her, worn out 91 Hawthorn... ...d abun- dant room. It leads its own life with a freer spirit, now that the artists and foreign visitors are scattered abroad. No bloom, perhaps, would... ...tator. Then there are chapels, opening from the side aisles and transepts, deco- rated by princes for their own burial places, and as shrines for thei...

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...t or nobility to give the tone, there is no harmony in the produc- tion of art. Never, on the other hand, has architecture dis- covered so many econom... ... arranged to suit the taste of the artist to whom Comte Adam entrusted the decoration of the house. It is too full of pretty nothings to be a place fo... ...rs (the real explanation of the Arabian myth), superb sketches by our best artists, lids of chests made into panels alternating with fluted draperies ... ...is except that of the Baron de Nucingen, was at the end of a short gallery deco- rated in the manner of the middle-ages. This gallery opened on the si... ...en what a campaign once was to the sol- diers of the Empire. What works of art and genius are ex- pended on a gown or a garland in which to make a sen... ...go to the Bois either on horseback or in a carriage. She must practise the art of smiling, and must keep her mind on the stretch to invent new complim...

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...hou hast spoken treason against the Norman, 11 Sir Walter Scott —and thou art but a cast-away swineherd,—thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as ... ...hy churchman rode upon a well-fed ambling mule, whose furniture was highly decorated, and whose bridle, ac- cording to the fashion of the day, was orn... ...d another part to play, which, when need- ful, he could sustain with great decorum. His knowledge of books, however superficial, was sufficient to imp... ...the dog where the deer lies, if I have no mind he should chase him.” “Thou art right,” said Gurth; “it were ill that Aymer saw the Lady Rowena; and it... ...ner done than the figure arose, exclaiming in good French, “Whosoever thou art, it is dis- courteous in you to disturb my thoughts.” “We did but wish ... ... who had taken his appro- priated seat upon a chair, the back of which was decorated with two ass’s ears, and which was placed about two steps behind ... ... strangers our bosom friends, our confidential servants; we borrowed their artists and their arts, and despised the honest simplicity and hardihood wi... ... be seen in the censures usually passed by vulgar criticism upon actors or artists who venture to change the character of their efforts, that, in so d...

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.... As he had already some claims to personal value, this child, made man by Art or by vocation, seemed indifferent to the question of costume; for he l... ...sual tricks to keep passengers quiet. “Well, after all,” said Mistigris, “‘art is long, but life is short’ —to Bichette.” At this particular epoch, a ... ...trousers covered his boots, the toes of which were barely seen. He wore no decoration in his button-hole, and doeskin gloves concealed his hands. Noth... ... jor. In France, at Montereau, I won the rank of sub-lieuten- ant, and was decorated by,—there are no informers here, I’m sure,—by the Emperor.” “What... ...by,—there are no informers here, I’m sure,—by the Emperor.” “What! are you decorated?” cried Oscar. “Why don’t you wear your cross?” “The cross of ‘ce... ...nner and Mistigris had walked on. Scarcely had Pierrotin overtaken the two artists and was mounting the hill from which Ecouen, the steeple of Mesnil,... ... Paris till mid-day. She was, therefore, in her own apartment when the two artists walked up to the chateau, and were sent by Moreau himself to their ... ...her and mother reigned as aristocrats. “Mamma,” he said, “here are the two artists sent down by Monsieur Schinner.” Madame Moreau, agreeably surprised... ...aid to the two artists, “to do you the honors of the chateau. We both love art, and, above all, artists,” she added in a mincing tone; “and I beg you ...

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...hangings, the work of one of those upholsterers who have just missed being artists. A silver lamp studded with tur- quoise, and suspended by chains of... ...tiful workmanship, hung from the centre of the ceiling. The same system of deco- ration was followed in the smallest details, and even to the ceiling ... ...ine model of the old school, gave substance and richness to the rather too decorative quality, as a painter might call it, of the rest of the room. On... ...two etageres dis- played a hundred precious trifles, flowers of mechanical art brought into bloom by the fire of thought. On a chimney- piece of slate... ...The confessors had 8 A Daughter of Eve decided that music was a Christian art, born of the Catholic Church and developed within her. The two Maries w... ...his lips. His iron-gray hair, falling naturally like that of the Christ in art, added to his ecstatic air a certain solemnity which was absolutely dec... ...anity and proclaims his wealth, I have no occasion to ex- press a wish. He decorates my apartments; he spends enor- mous sums upon my entertainments; ... ... Comtesse de Montcornet, a charming little woman, who received illustrious artists, leading financial personages, dis- tinguished writers; but only af... ... consummate corruption, Florine added a lively wit, which intercourse with artists had developed and practice sharpened day by day. Wit is thought to ...

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...e, poets who, though by no means deficient in the higher branches of their art, were eminent for their powers of verbal melody above most who have pra... ...r or lodging; and I reckon thou wilt hardly wish to stay longer where thou art e’en but too well known.” “For that matter, uncle,” replied the travell... ...ed his uncle, “as eighteen years have gone over thy head, and I trust thou art somewhat amended in thy conditions, thou shalt not leave my house at th... ...h me at robbing the Abbot’s orchard. ’Tis but a little touch of alchemy to decoct thy house and land into ready money, and that ready money into a tal... ...orld!” “Thou hast taught him a secret, kinsman,” said Giles Gos- ling, “to decoct, an that be the word, his pound into a penny and his webs into a thr... ...nd broken in pieces; and a large summer-house, having a heavy stone front, decorated with carving represent- ing the life and actions of Samson, was i... ... so far as I know, he has, nevertheless, a just respect and admiration for artists of our class. He will come to in time, as seldom fails; but as yet ... ...evil ever had such a hand among ye, as to snatch away your smiths and your artists from under your nose, when the good Abbots of Abingdon had their ow... ...ss- ing, I have advanced so far that I would not call the wisest of living artists my better or my teacher—I say, howsoever yon- der reprobate may sco...

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...to employ his faculties than in the hope of a doubtful success. He was not deco- rated with any order, and always accused himself of weak- ness for ha... ...ts, women purely spiritual or purely material; just as there are soldiers, artists, artisans, mathematicians, poets, merchants, men who un- derstand m... ...s; few officials have not conceived the like; but among officials as among artists there are more mis- carriages than births; which is tantamount to B... ...ssessed sketches, engravings, and pictures. He did a great deal of good to art- ists by simply not injuring them and by furthering their wishes on cer... ...y, he was much liked in the world of actors and actresses, journalists and artists. For one thing, they had the same vices and the same indo- lence as... ...ull of good taste and of exquisite things, where each detail was a work of art well placed and 33 Balzac well surrounded, and where Madame Rabourdin,... ...f some kind, or a widow,—who might fall in love with him, he practised the art of twirling his cane and of flinging the sort of glance which Bixiou to... ...s of fa- mous men in the anagram of their names. He passed whole months in decomposing and recomposing words and fitting them to new meanings. “Un Cor... ...m ten thousand francs a year; a painter can daub a mile of can- vas and be decorated with the Legion of honor, or pose as a neglected genius. A litera...

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...e acts of a people who had sunk so low as to exult in their chains, and to decorate with honors the very instru- ments of their own vassalage, would n... ...f civic distinc- tion, and in his own, to little or none. The same titular deco- ration, therefore, so offensive to the celebrated Whig, was, in the e... ...d, that, according to the remark of Jeremy Taylor, of all the men signally decorated by history, Augustus Cæsar is that one who exemplifies, in the mo... ...ueting rooms; nor was a dinner held to be complete without such a dessert. Artists were sought out who had dexterity and strength enough to do what Lu... ...ces upon the ground two crystal beakers—which had a high value as works of art, even in the Aurea Domus, from the sculptures which adorned them. He no... ...ature; others, as Napoleon Bonaparte, by elaborate mimicries of pantomimic art.* *In the true spirit of Parisian mummery, Bonaparte caused letters to ... ...e proscription he ex- tended to every sort of furniture, or decorations of art, which sheltered even in the bosom of camps those habits of effemi- nat...

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...ris; the prefect, selecting among the deputies suitable persons to be thus decorated, has placed my name first on the list. The king moreover knows 8... ...ok, and lived in the entresol above the shop,—a sort of den tolerably well decorated by an upholsterer, where the bride and bridegroom began a honeymo... ...is eyes lighted on the following title, yellow with dust: “Abdeker, or the Art of Preserving Beauty.” He picked up the so-called Arab book, a sort of ... ...and the land in the Faubourg du T emple; he built large manufactories, and decorated his shop at “The Queen of Roses” with much magnificence; his hous... ... at full gallop up the stairway of the orangery at Versailles. Writers and artists died in the hospi- tal, as a natural consequence of their eccentric... ...These striking points of information on the French lan- guage, on dramatic art, politics, literature, and science, will explain the bearings of the bo... ... it is also the wealth of merchants. Time, time is gold, especially to you artists. I permit myself to say to you that architecture 64 Rise and Fall ... ...hree years at the cost of the State. In Italy the young man had dreamed of art; in Paris he thought of fortune. Government alone can pay the needful m... ...e bourgeois class, the con- stant butt of the witty shafts and ridicule of artists, and the object of their everlasting contempt, nodding his head as ...

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...at that time there prevailed a good deal of fruitless aspiration toward an art-museum. He had seen himself in imagination, more than once, in some mou... ...n her plenty to think about, and she has induced him, by some mysteri- ous art, to abide, nominally at least, in a profession that he abhors, and for ... ...e occasion, and he declared that he was above all an advocate for American art. He did n’t see why we should n’t produce the greatest works in the wor... ...t ‘s all I can get out of her. A more regular damnation! Is it a fact that artists, in general, are such wicked men? I never had the pleasure of knowi... ...beauty reminded his companion of the flexible temperament of those Italian artists of the sixteenth century who were indifferently painters and sculpt... ...e same nonchalant step as before, and leading her great snow-white poodle, deco- rated with motley ribbons. The elder lady offered the two young men a... ...the shortness of their acquaintance, Rowland was bound to appreciate. “The artists are all crazy about her. When she goes into a studio she is fatal t... ...sa, modestly stationed in a corner. The little gentleman’s coat-lappet was decorated with an enormous bouquet and his neck encased in a voluminous whi...

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...ustry, working for the masses, goes on destroying the creations of ancient art, the works of which were once as personal to the consumer as to the art... ...de. The name alone awak- ens a thousand memories in the minds of painters, artists, thinkers who have visited the slopes on which this splendid jewel ... ...of fantastic beasts climb up the angles, animated by that great thought of Art, which in those old days gave life to inanimate nature. These relics, r... ...ble physiognomies. The public square is filled with Breton costumes, which artists flock to draw; these stand out in wonderful relief upon the scene a... ...re, but to those who buy them they are from Guerande and nowhere else. All artists, and even certain bour- geois, who come to Guerande feel, as they d... ...d down his chisel. This escutcheon would delight a lover of the heral- dic art by a simplicity which proves the pride and the antiq- uity of the famil... ... the vivacity of the brown eyes, which preserved, nevertheless, a priestly decorum. His gaiety, that of a man whose conscience was calm and pure, admi... ... a church except to look at the pictures. She has spent quite a fortune in decorat- ing Les Touches in a most improper fashion, making it a Mohammedan... ...mplicity in the arrangement of this floor, carefully avoiding all splendid decoration. The salon, painted gray, is furnished in old mahogany with gree...

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...ich the walls of the different chapels were profusely hung. I will not say decorated, for they were very roughly and comically got up; most likely by ... ...dist chapel. This is the Sala. It has five windows and five doors, and is decorated with pictures which would glad den the heart of one of those pic... ... where, by contrast with some fresh little Cupids, who on a more recently decorated portion of the front, are stretching out what seems to be the sem... ...hat anything short of a real man could be so tedious. It is the triumph of art. 46 Pictures from Italy In the ballet, an Enchanter runs away with the... ...mourn ful and depressing influence. It is miserable to see great works of art—something of the Souls of Painters—perishing and fading away, like huma... ...e very remarkable pictures, whereof a few were being copied by hairy faced artists, with little velvet caps more off their heads than on. There is the... ...ed Pig. What a gallery it was! I would take their opinion on a question of art, in preference to the discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Now that we we... ...Monte. In plainer words, these steps are the great place of resort for the artists’ ‘Models,’ and there they are con stantly waiting to be hired. The... ... the people, and stood on tiptoe for a sight of the knife: then went away. Artists, in inconceivable hats of the middle ages, and beards (thank Heaven...