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...t patient and fruitless angling in, which the French, as the vota- ries of art for art, excel all other people. The little sol- diers, weighed down by... ...mestic architecture—an architecture of security and tranquillity, in which art could indulge itself—gave an air of youth and gladness. It is true that... ...overlooks the stream, enclosed in a fresh little court; for here dwells an art- ist,—an artist in faience. There is no sort of sign, and the place loo... ...l sculpture of the miraculous hunt of that holy man. In the way of plastic art this elaborate scene is the gem of Amboise. It seemed to us that we had... ... place in the world where people smile like that,—only one place where the art of salutation has that perfect grace. This excellent creature used to c... ...say that I understood Petrarch. He must have been very selfsupporting, and Madonna Laura must indeed have been much to him. The aridity of the hills t...

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...s?’ ‘Oh no, thank you, mamma; I love nothing so well as T elemaque.’ ‘Thou art a droll child!’ said her mother. ‘Ah, but we are going to be like Telem... ... throwing them- selves with gestures of despair, screaming out vows to the Madonna and saints, and shouting imprecations. The skip- per came to speak ... ...ed into the hut, and roughly said in Ara- bic, ‘Come over to me, dog; thou art mine. Kiss the shoe of thy master’—adding in his native tongue, ‘For an... ... Mr. Thompson declared that not a tithe of the wonders of their mechanical art had been seen, describing the wonderful sil- ver tree of Tlemcen, cover... ...perfect language or his looks betrayed him, for Hadji Eseb demanded, ‘Thou art Frank, my son?’ Ibrahim Aga, mortally afraid of the consequences of hav... ...en though he be blind to the true faith. Is it true, good youth, that thou art—not as this man would have me believe—one of the crew from Algiers, but...

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...fan. Dearly should I like to know who was the giver of this dainty work of art, which was such a favorite with her. How 10 Letters of Two Brides ofte... ...let my eyes fall and my heart freeze under my snowy brows. I can pose as a Madonna with melancholy, swan-like neck, and the painters’ virgins will be ... ... my head I wear a garland of white roses in Greek style. I shall put on my Madonna face; I mean to play the simpleton, and have all the women on my si... ...or weakened authority, for the blind force of the masses, for the decay of art and the su- premacy of individual interests, and has left the road open... ... to call forth the energies of her nature and to instruct her in the grand art of motherhood! The right of the eldest, which in the earliest times for... ...ir which goes half-way, in my opinion, to make a politician. For the whole art of politics, dear, seems to me to consist in looking serious. At this r... ...e and discretion ever at hand, and an unfailing com- mand of every womanly art and grace. Oh! I watched you well; need I add, sly puss, that I admired... ...th a desire to go on pilgrimage, to bear my longings to the shrine of some madonna or to a watering-place. Next winter I shall take medical advice. I ...

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...rs experience round his theme as only the artist can who has enriched leis art by having outlived his youth without forgetting its pangs, joys, mortif... ...udies getting on? Have you made any progress in your truly philanthropical art? Is it very hard to help an inexperienced citizen on his first ap- 10 ... ...- tant one, nevertheless. According to Skoropikin, every an- cient work of art is valueless because it is old. If that were true, then art would be re... ...or less than mere fashion. A preposterous idea, not worth entertaining. If art has no firmer foundation than that, if it is not eternal, then it is ut... ...e authority of Raphael and Mozart? I must admit, however, that the laws of art are far more difficult to define than the laws of nature, but they exis... ...y, with dark brown hair, a fresh dark complexion, re- sembling the Sistine Madonna, with wonderfully deep, vel- vety eyes. Her pale lips were somewhat... ... understands herself very well— she is fully conscious of look- ing like a Madonna, and knows that she does not love a living soul! She pretends to be... ...nothing more than a mere scandal- monger and a poser. That is your Sistine Madonna!” “Why is she mine in particular? Mariana turned away and resumed h... ...pse of a woman’s dress could be seen. Mariana drew herself up. “Look, your Madonna has sent her spy. That maid has to keep a watch on me and inform he...

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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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... Hobbema. Whoever knows Nemours knows that nature is there as beautiful as art, whose mission is to spiritualize it; there, the landscape has ideas an... ...s ideas and creates thought. But, on catching sight of Minoret-Levrault an art- ist would very likely have left the view to sketch the man, so origina... ...guished professor who came once a week; the doctor willingly paying for an art which he had formerly declared to be useless in a household. Unbeliever... ...th century science was sun- dered as widely by the apparition of Mesmer as art had been by that of Gluck. After re-discovering magnetism Mesmer came t... ...lowing prayer, evidently com- posed by the Abbe Chaperon. “My God, if thou art content with thine handmaid, who worships thee and prays to thee with a... ...f you play the charade of first love with her she will pose as a Raffaelle Madonna, practice all the little games of innocence upon you, and take you ...

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...omen don’t know how to write them, but my mother has thoroughly mastered the art of condensation. ‘Tired America, hot weather awful, return England wi... ...very particular about the appearance of her linen) was not a mistress of her art. At fixed intervals she paid a visit to her own country; but this last... ...dis americanizing, nor had he a desire to teach his only son any such subtle art. It had been for himself so very soluble a problem to live in England... ...se wandering glances, for she was better worth looking at than most works of art. She was undeniably spare, and ponderably light, and proveably tall; ... ... see at play is the finest thing in nature.” It’s finer than the finest work of art—than a Greek bas relief, than a great Titian, than a Gothic cathedral... ...th 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 af... ... you 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 Madonna with un...

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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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...arance and figure of their revered grandfather; and I wish I possessed the art of drawing (which my papa had in perfection), so that I could leave to ... ...Of fencing he was especially fond, and made my two boys proficient in that art; so much so, that when the French came to this country with Monsieur Ro... ... canst not be happy here,” says my lord, looking round at the scene, “thou art hard to please, Rachel.” “I am happy where you are,” she said, “but we ... ...lie elsewhere than at home.” “Curse me, Rachel, if I know now whether thou art in ear- nest or not,” said my lord. “In earnest, my lord!” says she, st... ...terous way, at the child’s freaks of anger and show of dislike. “When thou art old enough, thou shalt marry Lord Mohun,” Beatrix’s father would say: o... ...r—when she used to look with her child more beautiful, by George, than the Madonna in the Queen’s Chapel. I am not good like her, I know it. Who is—by...

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...peaking simple and natural, yet full of vivacity and point; and he has the art, if it be art, of relaxing into a certain homeliness of manner, without... ...erfectly unnecessary for him to enter into any vindication of the dramatic art, which they had come here to support. This, however, he considered to b... ...tions, at proper times and on proper occasions. In all ages the theatrical art had kept pace with the improvement of mankind, and with the progress of... ...ghts of mankind. (Cheers.) There have been various times when the dramatic art subsequently fell into disrepute. Its professors have been stigmatized,... ...amusements of those places which they render an ornament to society. Their art was of a peculiarly delicate and precarious nature. They had to serve a... ... great a distance from him. The young person, who had naturally a resigned Madonna- like expression of countenance, listened to his impatient chid- in...

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...pon depres- sion, than the fiction of depression; professors of the wicked art of manufacturing depressions; spurious Jeremiahs; sham Heraclituses, wh... ...rect. Yes, in this hour the herb-doctor does distrust himself, but not his art.” The sick man’s knowledge did not warrant him to gainsay this. But he ... ...s healed the wound of Æneas: ‘This is no mortal work, no cure of mine, Nor art’s effect, but done by power divine.’” CHAPTER XVII. Towards the End of ... ... graving of a countenance full of soft pity as that of the Romish- painted Madonna, the herb-doctor passes slowly among them, benignly urbane, turning... ...ot the crutches. My mind, figuring you af- ter receiving the benefit of my art, overlooked you as you stand before me.” “Your art? Y ou call yourself ... ...able to walk almost as well as myself. Now, have you no confi- dence in my art?” “Ha, ha!” The herb-doctor averted himself; but, the wild laugh dy- in...

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... the noblest work in the world, him at his daily divine toil and herself a Madonna surrounded by a troupe of Blessed Boys—all of good family, some of ... ... had no other assur- ances, if I were blind to the glorious intimations of art, to the perpetually widening promise of science, to the mysteri- ous be... ...is not of the common life. Its way of thinking is Science, its dreaming is Art, its will is the purpose of mankind. It is not the common thing. But al... ...ments of London had made their various demands upon his time and energies. Art came to him with a noble assumption of his interest and an intention th... ... he did. He bought one or two modern achieve- ments, and began to doubt if art and aristocracy had any necessary connection. At first he had accepted ... ...ctures of life and things or pictures arising out of life and things. This Art had an air of saying something, but when one came to grips with it what... ...ominating Chexington, and Amanda tenderly triumphant and passion- ate, the Madonna enthroned. For William Porphyry he could feel no emotion. William P... ...s to Amanda Benham turned again. For some days he was content to adore his Madonna and listen to the familiar flatteries of her love. He was a leaner,...

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... sportsmen, owners of land, and consumers of tobacco; and are apt to treat art, sci- ences, letters, poetry, or anything offensively above their in- t... ...s in the lives of prodigal sons the same confusion which fancy brings into art. Victurnien was quick-sighted, he saw clearly and without illusion, but... ...h any pretensions to wit will be at her house en petit comite. Literature, art, poetry, any sort of genius, in short, is held in great esteem there. I... ...n is, and she is wearing a sash like a little girl; she looks round like a madonna inviolate. Who would think that you had passed that way?” “The very... ...sed at their conversa- tion, and gave the pair a broadside of her eyes, an art acquired by Frenchwomen since the Peace, when Englishwomen im- ported i... ... eyes fled to heaven at too warm a glance, or word, or thought. There is a madonna painted by Piola, the great Genoese painter, who bade fair to bring... ...ition of Raphael till his career was cut short by jealousy and murder; his madonna, however, you may dimly discern through a pane of glass in a little... ...rn through a pane of glass in a little street in Genoa. A more chaste-eyed madonna than Piola’s does not exist but compared with Mme. de Maufrigneuse,... ...uor which always seemed to be extorted by the violence of passion from her madonna’s purity. The Duchess did not fall into the mistake of talking of h...

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...howed signs already of a fine figure and great delicacy of complexion. Her Madonna-like face—for the popular voice had well named her—was surrounded b... ... and shade and lavishly massed and colored by Nature, who understands such art as well as any Michael Angelo. Ivy clasped the walls with its nervous t... ...ed perfectly with the poetic tangle of the humble exterior, the luxury and art of which was bestowed by Time, for once in a way charitable. Within, th... ...e was not pleasing. None but those to whom the miracles of thought, faith, art are known could adore that flaming gaze of the martyr, that pallor of c... ..., is noticeable for the elegance of a few carv- ings sparsely distributed. Art is timid in the provinces, and though, since 1829, ornamentation has ma... ...aving the treasures of learning, knowl- edge, human justice, politics, and art. We shall ever recog- nize in Europe the places where those radiant cen... ...arved a head of marvellous delicacy,—of Jesus Christ, of the apostles, the Madonna, Saint John the Bap- tist, Saint Joseph, Saint Anne, the two Magdal...

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...envy of the four counties which constitute God’s Country. In the sensitive art of the Rosebud Movie Palace there is a Mes- sage, and humor strictly mo... ..., books of reference, was easy and not too somniferous. She reveled in the Art Institute, in sym- phonies and violin recitals and chamber music, in th... ... the dust of bran, a patent medicine advertisement painted on its roof. Ye Art Shoppe, Prop. Mrs. Mary Ellen Wilks, Christian Science Library open dai... ...ores? Why! There was one just for tobacco alone, and one (a lovely one—the Art Shoppy it was) for pictures and vases and stuff, with oh, the dandiest ... ...’s had professional training. She studied singing and oratory and dramatic art and shorthand for a year, in Milwaukee.” Miss Stowbody was reciting. As... ...ays say: being in a Family Way does make the girlie so lovely, just like a Madonna. Tell me—” Her whisper was tinged with salaciousness—”does oo feel ...

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...er was redeemed in their sight by his devotion to music. Music was now the Art in the ascendant at Brookfield. The ladies (for it is as well to know a... ...en known to him, with familiar indiffer- ence, as things below the musical Art, gave a distinguishing tone to Brookfield, from which his French accent... ... making her virgin effort at the caricaturing of our sex in his person: an art for which she promised well. Out of the long black shadows of the solit... ....” “Surely,” said Adela, “we shall not do that, if we encourage her in her Art.” “He means another kind of art,” said Lady Gosstre. “The term ‘artist,... ...y privileged, I assure you.” “Are we placed under a professor to learn the art?” Adela inquired, pleased with the subject under such high patronage. “... ...e to take his umbrella; but I was afraid to; and my father came to me,—oh, Madonna, think of what he did! I saw that his pockets were very big. He sna...

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... deep sanctities of beauty that sleep amongst the Italian varieties of the Madonna face), is not without its appropriate truth. Servants and rustics a... ...rations of men, even though far below the higher efforts of human creative art—as, for example, the “De Imitatione Christi,” or “The Pilgrim’s Progres... ...for this is one of the cases in which we all felicitate ourselves upon the art and gift of forgetting; that art which the great Athenian* noticed as a... ...the gift—that she should be embalmed as perfectly as the resources in that art of London and Paris could accomplish, and that once a year Mr. White, a... ...ising from the vast diffusion of trade and the higher branches of mechanic art, have gradually caused these func- tions of the order (even where the l... ... of intellectual delight, for too short a time, to have mastered the whole art of managing its resources. All these were rea- sons for studying Demost...

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...re the haspens quiver,” or “Bonny lad, march over hill and furrow,” or “My art and lute,” or any other popular piece of the day. And the dear girl san... ...r a wig still more fatal—Eglantine being a very fat man, who required much art to make his figure at all decent. He wore a brown frock-coat and frogs,... ...e; and if there is one thing in the world he hates and de- spises, it is a Madonna. “I’m not,” says he, “a tradesman— I’m a Hartist” (Mr. Eglantine wa... ...ll punch your head off!” answered the young man, who had much skill in the art which many of his brethren practise. “I didn’t, my fine fellow,” replie... ... As for Woolsey, Eglantine determined that he should have the best wig his art could produce; for he had not the least fear of his rival. These points... ...nd one curious to speculate on. Have you not remarked the immense works of art that women get through? The worsted-work sofas, the counterpanes patche...

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...THIS EXQUISITE NOVEL, first published in 1859, like so many great works of art, holds depths of meaning which at first sight lie veiled under the simp... ...to her, all this is conveyed to us by the simplest and the most consummate art. The diary (chapter xvi.) that Elena keeps is in itself a masterly reve... ...eath the surface, beneath the common-place of daily life. In the difficult art of literary perspective, in the effective grouping of contrasts in char... ... and weakness, the fluidity of his nature. The reader who does not see the art which underlies almost every line of On the Eve is merely paying the hi... ...most every line of On the Eve is merely paying the highest tribute to that art; as often the clear waters of a pool conceal its surprising depth. Tak-... ...foreground of Titian’s Ascension and holds his arms outstretched after the Madonna; but the Madonna—a splendid, powerful woman, calmly and majes- tica...