Little Journeys To the Homes of Eminent PaintersG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1899 - 497 sider |
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Side 368 - The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Nothing is better than simplicity — nothing can make up for excess, or for the lack of definiteness.
Side ix - How can that be, lady, which all men learn By long experience ?; Shapes that seem alive, Wrought in hard mountain marble, will survive Their maker, whom the years to dust return ! Thus to effect cause yields.
Side 140 - And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before The Tavern shouted — "Open then the Door! You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more.
Side 396 - ... rich. After his death his fame increased, and pictures he had sold for twenty dollars, soon changed hands for as many hundred. Englishmen say that America grew Millet-mad, and it may be true that our admiration tipped a bit to t...
Side 488 - The writer has read her authorities with care, and, whenever it has been practicable, she has verified by personal investigation what she has heard and read. We have, as a result, narratives excellent as records and distinctly readable. Anecdotes are introduced with tact ; the treatment of the authors is sympathetic and characterized by good judgment.
Side 439 - Before Edwin Landseer was twenty years of age he was known throughout the United Kingdom as "Landseer." John Landseer was known as "the father of Landseer," and the others were "the brothers of Landseer." And when once in Piccadilly, the beautiful Miss Pott (that was) was pointed out as "the mother of Landseer," the words warmed the heart of the good woman like wine. To be the wife of a great man, and the mother of a greater was career enough — she was very happy. Queen Anne Street, near Cavendish...
Side x - Wrought in hard mountain marble, will survive Their maker, whom the years to dust return! Thus to effect, cause yields. Art hath her turn, And triumphs over Nature. I, who strive with sculpture, Know this well: her wonders live In spite of time and death, those tyrants stern. So I can give long life to both of us In either way, by color or by stone, Making the semblance of thy face and mine.
Side 451 - Is thy servant a dog that he should do this thing? " answered the wit. The story went the rounds, and Mulready once congratulated the clergyman on the repartee. " I never made the reply," said Sydney Smith,
Side 240 - Hand, And does attempt the like with less success, When her own work in Twins she would express. His All-resembling Pencil did out-pass The mimick Imagery of Looking-glass.
Side 488 - Homesteads," etc. With 33 illustrations. 8°, $2.50. "In this volume fascinating pictures are thrown upon the screen so rapidly that we have not time to have done with our admiration for one before the next one is encountered. . . . Longforgotten heroes live once more ; we recall the honored dead to life again, and the imagination runs riot. Travel of this kind does not weary. It fascinates."— New York Times.