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...ylinders. ‘The Heart of Darkness,’ he had never heard of be- fore nor ‘The Madonna of the Future’—no doubt if they were indeed stories, they were by p... ...y V enusberg. He forgot the part played by the model in nineteenth century art, and gave way to an archaic indignation. He rose, angry and half ashame... ...had spoken. Strange places reminiscent of the legendary Sybaris, cities of art and beauty, mercenary art and mercenary beauty, sterile wonderful citie... ...ved each other. With amazing foresight it spent great sums of money on the art of flying, holding that invention back against an hour foreseen. It use... ...o practical psychologists with some very in- teresting developments in the art of hypnotism. The names of Milne Bramwell, Fechner, Liebault, William J...

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... liberal in all his appointments, and gratifying to the utmost his love of art and decoration, while 18 Dynevor Terrace Vol 1 his charities and gener... ...that there was no being displeased with her, so innocent and devoid of all art or guile in her wilfulness, that her faults could hardly bear a harsher... ...e love, he had ordered one of the most beautiful and costly monuments that art could execute, for her grave at Ormersfield, and had sent brief but exp... ...here,’ and parting the bushes he showed some rude steps, half nature, half art, leading between the ferns and mountain-ash, and looking very inviting.... ...ET THE BET THE BET THE BET THE BETTER P TER P TER P TER P TER PAR AR AR AR ART OF T OF T OF T OF T OF V V V V VAL AL AL AL ALOUR OUR OUR OUR OUR For w... ...ence she took a case containing an exquisite ivory carving, a copy of the ‘Madonna della Sedia,’ so fine that a magnifier alone could fully reveal the... ...a, who stood a little apart. ‘What?’ asked Louia. ‘My ivory clasp with the Madonna,’ said Clara. ‘Jem and I thought it the only thing worthy of Miss C...

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... taken serene possession of its softest spot, and, with his head thrown back and his legs outstretched, was staring at Murillo?s beautiful moon-borne Madonna in profound enjoyment of his posture. He had removed his hat, and flung down beside him a little red guide-book and an opera-glass....

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...k and his legs outstretched, was staring at Murillo’s beautiful moon-borne Madonna in profound enjoyment of his posture. He had removed his hat, and f... ...he merit of the artist with that of his work (for he admires the squinting Madonna of the young lady with the boyish coif- fure, because he thinks the... ...ittle picture? It’s a very beau- tiful subject,” said the young lady. “The Madonna, yes; I am not a Catholic, but I want to buy it. Combien? Write it ... ...d to confirm her promise, she deposited a rosy blotch in the middle of the Madonna’s cheek. But the American frowned. “Ah, too red, too red!” he rejoi... ...Sevres biscuit. I am going to tone that down; I know all the secrets of my art. And where will you allow us to send it to you? Your address?” “My addr... ...y fortune again.” “Perhaps he will help you. And what else?” “He says thou art very clever.” “It is very possible. You believe it yourself, my father?... ... in every form!” and M. Nioche cast a significant glance at his daughter’s Madonna. “I can’t fancy myself chattering French!” said Newman with a laugh... ...bought the first pic- ture of his life, and now he was already thinking of art- patronage as a fascinating pursuit. His reflections quick- ened his go... ...a. I want the biggest kind of entertainment a man can get. People, places, art, nature, everything! I want to see the tallest mountains, and the blues...

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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... ...sunshine, passionate as the tornado. Their lives were rendered blissful by art unsought harmony with nature. But, as centuries passed away, the Faun’s... ... years, has crept over scenes that have been once adorned with the careful art and toil of man; and when man could do no more for them, time and natur... ... on the marble floor, just in front of the divine Raphael’s picture of the Madonna da Foligno! Nothing more, upon my word! The fire, which the poor ch... ... but whose serene intelligence embraces both earthly and celestial things; madonnas by Raphael, on whose lips he has impressed a holy and delicate res... ...en these lovers, while standing before the pillared shrine, and the marble Madonna that marks Raphael’s tomb; whither they had now wandered, we are un...

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...d escaped, through the interposition of his or her patron saint, or of the Madonna; and I may refer to them as good specimens of the class generally. ... ...mmedi ately outside the city walls, by a sort of piano forte van. But the Madonna was there again. Whether the supernatural appearance had startled t... ...s, with a spade and some other agricultural implements beside him; and the Madonna, with the Infant Saviour in her arms, appearing to him in a cloud. ... ...aviour in her arms, appearing to him in a cloud. This is the legend of the Madonna della Guardia: a chapel on a moun tain within a few miles, which i... ... in which the prayers of the Faithful may be offered up.’ ‘But, Santissima Madonna,’ said the peasant, ‘I am a poor man; and chapels cannot be built w... ...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... ...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... ...ory of the dilapidated Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, is the work of art, perhaps, better known than any other in the world: the Last Supper, by...

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...very eyes without our perceiving it. No one suspects how much solidity the art of printing has given both to the envy which pursues greatness, and to ... ...noclasms of the Calvinists, who did as much harm 8 Catherine dé Medici to art as to the body politic. Hemmed in between the Guises who claimed to be ... ...crifice either of money or self-love to draw to themselves supporters. The art of printing came to the aid of the opposition be- gun by the Vaudois an... ...nri of France, all of which were furnished with the richest trea- sures of art the Medici could collect. The rowers, magnifi- cently apparelled, and t... ...c de Montmorency, beheaded at T oulouse, to the Vidame de Chartres, in the art of pleasing, in attainments, accomplishments, and talent. Henri II. sho... ...d the quai aux Fleurs, the architect had constructed a little shrine for a Madonna, which was always lighted by wax-tapers and decked with real flow- ... ...carved, and so was the corner pillar where it rose above the shrine of the Madonna, and all the other pillars in front of the house. Each window, and ... ...s compelled all passers along the street to pray before the shrines of the Madonna so as to discover heretics by their unwilling- ness or even refusal...

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...reatment of Harriet; he 129 W. Somerset Maugham dabbled in the history of art (on the walls of his rooms were reproductions of pictures by G. F. Watt... ...phesied his future eminence. In course of time he became an au- thority on art and literature. He came under the influence of Newman’s Apologia; the p... ...tell her. ” “Will you promise?” When he had done this, she told him how an art-student who had a room on the floor above her—but she interrupted herse... ... the floor above her—but she interrupted herself. “Why don’t you go in for art? Y ou paint so pret- tily . ” “Not well enough for that.” “That is for ... ... William’s face if I sud- denly told him I wanted to go to Paris and study art?” “ Y ou’re your own master , aren’t you?” “ Y ou’re trying to put me o... ... infinitely pathetic. There seemed to Philip to be in her something of the Madonna. He wished they could continue in that same way always. He was hap-...

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...ife; it will assuredly topple and tend to overset; but there are stones on every roadside, and a man soon learns the art of correcting any tendency to... ...is green tail-coat. But it was not my turn for the moment. I was proud of my new lore, and thought I had learned the art to perfection. And certainly ... ...sband had begun life as a muleteer, and when I came to charge Modestine showed himself full of the pru- dence of his art. ‘You will have to change thi... ... had no beauty, nor was there any notable feature, save the old castle overhead with its fifty quintals of brand-new Madonna. But the inn was clean an...

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...mantic and historic sites, such as the land of Italy abounds in, offer the art- ist a questionable aid to concentration when they them- selves are not... ...me such apology for a motive. These are the fascinations of the fabulist’s art, these lurking forces of expansion, these necessities of upspringing in... ...xion than that of the perfect dependence of the “moral” sense of a work of art on the amount of felt life concerned in producing it. The question come... ...ee. The artist may of course, in wanton moods, dream of some Paradise (for art) where the direct appeal to the intelligence might be legalised; for to... ...en don’t know how to write them, but my mother has thoroughly mastered the art of condensation. ‘Tired America, hot weather awful, return England with... ... her being happy. She has looked as solemn, these three days, as a Cimabue Madonna!” And Mrs. Touchett rang for a servant. Isabel came in shortly afte... ...u would try to find one,” the girl exclaimed as if she were praying to the Madonna. “I should be very sorry to attempt it,” said the Ma- donna with un...

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...nages, destined to appear more phlegmatic than nature had made him. “What! Art ready for the basket, eh, Gyp?” said Adam, with the same gentle modulat... ...has the- atrical properties and, with the considerate view of facilitating art and psychology, “makes up,” her characters, so that there may be no mis... ...st ready to give her that blessing which she had never sought. Jesus, Thou art in the midst of us, and Thou knowest all men: if there is any here like... ...ir sins to their minds, and make them thirst for that salvation which Thou art ready to give. “Lord, Thou art with Thy people still: they see Thee in ... ...eir hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those who have not known Thee: open their eyes that they may se... ...olet robe, and a face paled by the celestial light; paint us yet oftener a Madonna, turning her mild face upward and opening her arms to welcome the d... ...e young women—just as one feels the beauty and the greatness of a pictured Madonna the more when it has been for a moment screened from us by a vulgar...

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...ical serpent. In 1846, now that such immense strides have been made in the art of which Benvenuto Cellini was the master, by Mademoiselle de Fauveau, ... ...uld amaze nobody; but at that time a girl who understood the silversmith’s art stood astonished as she held the seal which Lisbeth put into her hands,... ...ad no fault to find but that the taste of all this luxury was commonplace. Art, and the distinction that comes of the choice of things that taste assi... ...ann—who, with the help of these dis- tinguished masters of the goldsmiths’ art, was raising French work to the perfection it has now reached, allowing... ...lot of nice little books they would write to make my fortune.’—If works of art could be hammered out like nails, workmen would make them.—Give me a th... ...Thus, certain pictures by Raphael, such as the famous Transfiguration, the Madonna di Foligno, and the frescoes of the Stanze in the Vatican, do not a... ...slim figure. Lisbeth, like a Virgin by Cranach or Van Eyck, or a Byzantine Madonna stepped out of its frame, had all the stiffness, the precision of t... ...eak in this style, cast adoring looks at her, such as the devout cast at a Madonna for having saved their life. “That horrible woman was bent on destr... ...f the sacred hymn, and who was crowning her sorrows with flow- ers, as the Madonna is crowned in Italy. “Madame,” said the man-servant, reappearing at...

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...ey prevented him from completing his work. The trouble is that he made his art out of life, and when in his final years he carried his struggle, as To... ...dst of it we are not conscious of it; but if the artist brings it into his art, on the stage say, we shall roll about with laughter and only wonder we... ... the instrumentality of Russian magnates who profess to be connoisseurs of art—from Italy; owing to the said magnates having made such purchases solel... ...be that of believing himself to be a lover of music, and able to sound the art to its inmost depths; another’s may be that of posing as a connoisseur ... ..., manifest in your every movement. Nor have I ever been able to attain the art of expressing myself well. Consequently, although there is a possibilit... ... oval—a face which might have served as a model for the countenance of the Madonna, since it was of a type rarely to be met with in Russia, where near...

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...cellaneous. I have just sent home a Beauty—a perfect Beauty—to a school of art. One leg Bel- gian, one leg English, and the pickings of eight other pe... ...rofits of it?’ ‘She knows the profits of it, but she don’ t appreciate the art of it, and she objects to it. “I do not wish,” she writes in her own ha... ... s up there! I sit here of a night surrounded by the lovely trophies of my art, and what have they done for me? Ruined me. Brought me to the pass of b... ...ss Podsnap. And this young rocking-horse was being trained in her mother’s art of prancing in a stately manner without ever getting on. But the high p... ...d be my partner.’ This was such an entirely new view of the T erpsichorean art as socially practised, that Mrs Lammle looked at her young friend in so... ... cir- cumstance that he had a Straduarius violin to dispose of, and also a Madonna, formed the sum and substance of Mr T wemlow’s narrative. Through w...

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... that you see crippling about this earth. By the way, that is a feature in art which seems to have come in with the Italians. Y our old Greek statues ... ...as the bird’s need to whistle; and I, who am specially incompetent in this art, must content myself by chattering away to you on this bit of paper. Al... ...omething beautifully soft, a sort of light of tenderness, as on some Dutch Madonna, that came over her face when she looked at the man. They talked fo... ...ok after us with a perfect heaven of love on her face – this poor one-eyed Madonna – until the train was out of sight; but the man, sordidly happy wit... ...st in it. As if people don’t get lost in love, too, and die of devotion to art; as if everything worth were not an occa- sion to some people’s end. Wh... ...haps it is a higher. I look over my shoulder at the three great head- less Madonnas, and they look back at me and do not move; see me, and through and... ...e great influence. I find here (of all places in the world) your Essays on Art, which I have read with signal interest. I believe I shall dig an essay... ...used to find the supply of butter insufficient; but he has now learned the art to exactitude, and butter and roll expire at the same moment. For this ...

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...e ballads she sang, there was nothing but little angels with golden wings, madonnas, lagunes, gon- doliers;-mild compositions that allowed her to catc... ...these works, not touching the heart, miss, it seems to me, the true end of art. It is so sweet, amid all the disenchantments of life, to be able to dw... ... knew also all the latest inventions in economic stoves, together with the art of preserving cheese and of curing sick wines. At eight o’clock Justin ... ...n eccentric existence, of the perturbations of sentiment, the tyrannies of art, and always a *Upon my word! 120 Madame Bovary certain contempt for so... ...che! and he is even completely desti- tute of what is called the genius of art.” Rodolphe, meanwhile, with Madame Bovary , had gone up to the first fl... ... do not under- stand. You were mistaken, no doubt. In my soul you are as a Madonna on a pedestal, in a place lofty, secure, immaculate. But I need you... ...ay that the rebellious tendon had at last given way beneath the efforts of art. The patient, strangely enough—we affirm it as an eye-witness—complaine...

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...ermination, backed by his confidence and talent, to become a master of his art. Dr Porhoët knew that a diversity of interests, though it adds charm to... ...secret of your strength. She has a delightful enthusiasm for every form of art. Beauty really means as much to her as bread and butter to the more sob... ... asked Arthur. ‘That is a compatriot of yours. His name is Oliver Haddo.’ ‘Art student?’ inquired Arthur, with the scornful tone he used when referrin... ...o announce her inten tion of spending a couple of years in Paris to study art, Susie willingly agreed to accompany her. Since then she had worked ind... ...l be beautiful to wear a bonnet like a sitz bath at the back of your head. Art has nothing to do with a smart frock, and whether a high heeled pointe... ...e workmanship, and round her neck a chain which had once adorned that of a madonna in an Andalusian church. Her individuality made even her plain nes...

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...his ‘ere’ll not do. What about these props?’ An’ I says to him, ‘Why, what art talkin’ about? What d’st mean about th’ props?’ ‘It’ll never do, this ‘... ... then yo’ ‘ear ‘im sneeze. 72 Sons & Lovers “‘Ello, Taff,’ you say, ‘what art sneezin’ for? Bin ta’ein’ some snuff?’ “An’ ‘e sneezes again. Then he s... ...f the stairs and said to his wife: “This childt’s axin’ for thee; how long art goin’ to be?” “Until I’ve finished, good gracious! Tell him to go to sl... ...nter- est the Leivers more than they interested his mother. It was not his art Mrs. Morel cared about; it was himself and his achievement. But Mrs. Le... ...onditions of work were better. He had Wednesday afternoon off to go to the Art School—Miss Jordan’s provision—returning in the evening. Then the facto... ...ded him so much of the mouth and eyes of one who sings beside a Botticelli Madonna, so spiritual. Again, hot as steel, came up the pain in him. Why mu... ...- self. It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad. Suddenly he got up an...

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...are gift of reproducing the expressive Slav vernacular, and of his magical art of infusing his pictures of Russian scenery not merely with beauty, bu... ... die for want of food if it were not for sex instincts, if it were not for Art, and especially for Music. This view of life he forc ibly expressed in... ... tory, geography, and science. Little leisure remained for the service of Art. The history of Tolstoy as a man of letters forms a separate page of hi... ...he maintained, was always artificial and obscure. His attitude towards the art of writing remained to the end one of hostility. Whenever he caught him... ...mained to the end one of hostility. Whenever he caught himself working for art he was wont to reproach himself, and his diaries contain many re 29 T... ... important one to a friend, asking him to bid for him for a picture of the Madonna which was to be offered for sale at an auction. As he Leo Tolstoy ...

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...ter’s journey to Italy. Poor man, he little knew what he undertook. Music, art, Roman Catholic services, and nov- elty conspired to intoxicate her, an... ...cal; good, but outside his life. Still, she was happy.” “Petting, Society, Art, travels! I had rather have had our two first years of tiffs than all t... ... to like the ‘Pursuivant’ to lie about, nor her writing for it, even about art or books; nor did his old bones enjoy the rivers at Vale Leston. Now yo... ...s to have it; Lady Rotherwood, Lady Caergwent, besides all your delightful art- ist friends; and that would pacify mother, and make it so much pleasan... ...ledge in the side of the cliff, scooped out partly by nature and partly by art, where stood the little houses covered with slate. There the mistress w... ...e displayed the Mouse-traps. Mrs. Henderson, sure to look beautiful, quite Madonna-like 112 The Long Vacation in her costume, would have the charge o...

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...,” said Dorothea, whose slight regard for domestic music and feminine fine art must be forgiven her, considering the small tinkling and smearing in wh... ...f teaching, you know—else this is just the thing for girls—sketching, fine art and so on. But you took to drawing plans; you don’t understand morbidez... ... in the world; presenting the most perfect interchange between science and art; offering the most direct alliance between intellectual con- quest and ... ...at present. Travellers did not often carry full informa- tion on Christian art either in their heads or their pockets; and even the most brilliant Eng... ...e not angry with me for thinking Mrs. Second-Cousin the most perfect young Madonna I ever saw?” “Angry? nonsense. I have only seen her once before, fo... ...in English and Swiss Puritanism, fed on meagre Protestant histories and on art chiefly of the hand- screen sort; a girl whose ardent nature turned all... ...thea felt that she was getting quite new notions as to the significance of Madonnas seated under inexplicable canopied thrones with the simple country...

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... all merged into one feeling of sickening agitation. “O Lord God! Thou who art in that heaven, save, forgive, and protect me!” Rostov whispered. The h... ...v had evidently failed to learn from Suvorov even so simple a thing as the art of crowing like a cock, but the elder members glanced se- verely at the... ...ogel, flying about like a feather and bowing according to the rules of his art, as he collected the tickets from all his visitors. There was the fact ... ...nd an as yet untrained velvety softness, which so mingled with her lack of art in singing that it seemed as if nothing in that voice could be altered ... ... see or understand his own vileness and sinfulness?” He paused again. “Who art thou? Thou dreamest that thou art wise because thou couldst utter those... ....” A very pretty curly-headed boy with a look of the Christ in the Sistine Madonna was depicted playing at stick and ball. The ball represented the te...