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...tist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a new hedonism, Lord Henry suggests the only things worth pursuing in life are beauty and fulfillment of t...

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...o Daughters Her feet were bare… Tomorrow, at Dawn Ave, Dea; moriturus te salutat June Nights To Théophile Gautier Gérard de Nerval (1808-1855) Gothic Song El Desdichado (The Disinherited) Myrtho Horus Delfica Artemis Golden Lines Alfred de Musset (1810-1857) Song Barbarina’s Song On a Dead Lady Sonnet Théophile Gautier (1811-1872) Sonnet The Hippopotam...

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...en trained by his friend, Count Kovrosky, an émigré Audrey Blankenhagen 16 from Poland, in the art of fencing and the use of firearms. Helen was a... ...y, which had leased it from the British Crown in 1668 for ten pounds per annum. Their grand, neo-Gothic buildings erected along the harbour front, ... ...é who was a friend of both our fathers - he taught me not only to ride, but more importantly the art of handling and caring for a horse and that was... ...ble to his first wife, the voluptuous Maria. She hated herself for being so inexperienced in the art of pleasing a man. Her puberty had been spent i... ...words and then she said quietly, ‘She is right about Isabel de Silva’s involvement in some black art. I, too, have witnessed something demonic, an e... ...s gyrations of the couple on the floor. ‘Hail Mary, Full of Grace, the Lord is with Thee, Blessed art Thou amongst woman and Blessed is the Fruit of...

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...    To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die,     To cease upon the midnight with no pain,         While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad             In such an ecstasy!     Still wouldst thou sing, and I have ears in vain—         To thy high requiem become a sod.   VII Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird!    ...

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...t’s Poem, the "Story of Rimini" On the Sea Lines (Unfelt, Unheard, Unseen...) Hither, Hither, Love— You Say You Love Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream The Gothic Looks Solemn O Grant That Like to Peter I On—— (Think Not of It Sweet One So) Endymion Book I Book II Book III Book IV Stanzas: In a Drear-Nighted December Apollo to the Graces To Mrs. Reynolds's Cat Lines o...

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...ditor-In-Chief: Gail R. Delaney Cover Artist: Jenifer Ranieri Cover Art Copyright by Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights res... ... to the Connecticut River north of East Haddam, Daniel Connolly had built a gothic fairytale of a house for his bride, Helene, and his newborn son, R... ...e touches Helene had never had the time or inclination to bring it. Triple Gothic-arched windows on two walls were draped in white Irish lace. Star...

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...009 Editor-In-Chief: Gail R. Delaney Cover Artist: Nik Ranieri Cover Art Copyright by Desert Breeze Publishing, Inc © 2009 All rights rese... ...ho is already moving through it.” Okay, felt like I just stepped into a bad gothic novel. Who talked like that anymore? Ooohhhh! Rudolpho is mov...

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...rs overhead, but there was nothing like candlelight to give that sense of gothic drama so appropriate for an old library. They took their seats and ... ...e they laughed and the worse his magic became.’ ‘Clowning is all about the art of failure,’ Buntee explained. ‘Most people want to be a success, but ... ...or chai or to share a meal. Theo had long since become accus- tomed to the art of eating with his hands, and the more he ate, the happier his hosts b...

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... Thy works are not as those of other men, simply and merely great works of art; but are also like the phenomena of nature, like the sun and the sea, t... ... they meet and criticise as they would a picture, statue, or other work of art. But I need not trouble myself with any attempt to describe the spirit ... ...s; a task which might be easy enough three or four centuries ago, when the art was little understood, and few great models had been exhibited; but in ... ...or Milton in poetry, like Michael Angelo in paint- ing, he has carried his art to a point of colossal sublimity; and, as Mr. Wordsworth observes, has ... ...ted the taste by which he is to be enjoyed.” T o sketch the history of the art, and to examine its principles critically, now re- mains as a duty for ... ...nceptions never as- cended to. Murdratus est, says the sublimer dialect of Gothic ages. Meantime, the Jewish, school of murder kept alive what- ever w... ...; but there was still light enough to perceive, at the further end of this gothic aisle, a light, reedy gig, in which were seated a young man, and, by... ...f all in its banquets, that he would feel the incur- able barbarism of the Gothic blood. Contrasted with the fine displays that made the table of the ...

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...and parliament of its own, is known to all the world. And a very nice little kingdom it is; full of old towns, fine Flemish pictures, and interesting Gothic churches. But in the memory of very many of us who do not think ourselves old men, Belgium, as it is now called--in those days it used to be Flanders and Brabant--was a part of Holland; and it obtained its own independ...

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...e kingdom it is; full of old towns, fine Flemish pictures, and interesting Gothic churches. But in the memory of very many of us who do not think ours... ...the guinea stamp, The man’s the gowd for a’ that.” And is not the tailor’s art as little worthy, as insignificant as that of the king who makes “A mar...

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...e, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals like large mirrors, in which its steeples and its almost Eastern cupolas are reflected, -- the city of the Hague, the capital of the Seven United Provinces, was swelling in all its arteries with...

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...of the Hague, al- ways so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spread... ...ug. Not a day passed on which Rosa did not come to have her chat with Cornelius. The tulips, concerning whose cultivation Rosa was taught all the myst... ...in his mind; but he no longer looked upon it as a treasure to which he ought to sacrifice everything, and even Rosa, but as a marvellous combination o... ...lled his lungs with the pure, sweet air, while his brain dwelt upon thoughts of happiness, and his heart overflowed with gratitude and religious fervo... ...er these several charges, but, turning to the Prince, continued, — “I have now for twenty years grown tulips at Dort. I have even acquired some reputa...

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...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?... ...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... ...d not a real genius for the matter, or she would have pursued the charming art for itself. The poor lady was very incomplete. She fell back upon the h... ...f American civilization; but he was also greatly struck with the beautiful Gothic tower of the Hotel de Ville, and wondered whether it would not be po...

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...ladies of distinction—especially those of Palestine, and it was a trial of art to throw these into the greatest possible varieties of convolution, and... ...ally so, ample scope would, in that case, have been obtained for inventive art: variations without end might then have been devised on the fashion or ... ... such are still to be seen upon the monuments of Egyptian and Persepolitan art, was fastened round the head by a ribbon or 60 Theological Essays and ... ...pose, and from the richness of the setting—to say nothing of the exquisite art which the ancient lapidaries displayed in cutting them. The stones chie... ...stimulation to vanity in the love of change from an inventive condition of art and manufacturing skill, and where the system and interests of the gove... ...ge, under the blessing of Heaven, is pretty nearly a tabula rasa.’ In this Gothic expres- sion of self-congratulation upon the extent of his own igno-... ...ar- mony are essential conditions to their effect. Ruins are be- coming to Gothic buildings—decay is there seen in a grace- ful form; but to an Attic ...

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...se With prophecy thy husband’s widowed eyes And bade him call the master’s art to rear Thy perfect image on the sculptured bier, With dreaming lids, h... ... the flesh aside, Into these lovelier marble limbs it stole, Regenerate in art’s sunrise clear and wide As saints who, having kept faith’s raiment who... ... clustered at their base, And, equipoised o’er tower and market-place, The Gothic minster’s winged immensity; And in that narrow burgh, with equal moo... ..., Petalled with panes of azure, gules and or, Splendidly lambent in the Gothic gloom, And stamened with keen flamelets that illume The pale high...

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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... ...ntire a heathen as to be insensible to the beauty of those relics of Greek art, of which men much more learned and enthusiastic have written such pile... ...e ragged soldiers leave their pipes to sa- lute him as he passes under the Gothic archway. The astonishing brightness and clearness of the sky under w... ...e noble old towers of the Church of the Sepulchre, with pointed arches and Gothic traceries, rude, but rich and picturesque in design. Here crowds are... ...n it. Look at the fervour with which pilgrims kiss and weep over a tawdry Gothic painting, scarcely better fashioned than an idol in a South Sea Mora... ...ey are called upon to reverence are of the same pe- riod and order,—savage Gothic caricatures. In either a saint appears in the costume of the middle ... ... and merchants and children. The scene within the building was of the same Gothic char- acter. W e were entertained by the Superior of the Greek Con- ...

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...f poetry as Aristotle, and nearly as eloquent an expounder of the rules of art and the glories of genius as Longinus. In the same year, Pope printed “... ...his fine epistle to Jervas, the painter. Pope was passionately fond of the art of painting, and practised it a good deal under Jervas’s instructions, ... ... more complete pieces. They constantly applied themselves not only to that art, but to that single branch of an art, to which their talent was most po... ...t we ought to judge of pastorals. And since the instructions given for any art are to be deliv- ered as that art is in perfection, they must of necess... ...lexander Pope – V olume One The hills and rocks attend my doleful lay; Why art thou prouder and more hard than they? The bleating sheep with my compla... ... obelisks were placed, And the learn’d walls with hieroglyphics graced. Of Gothic structure was the northern side, O’erwrought with ornaments of barba...

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...rees, pruned into parasols, and yews fantastically clipped; this luxury of art so skilfully combined with that of nature in Court dress; those cascade... ...ading to the stairs! Who could fail to admire the steps on which ingenious art has laid a carpet that will last while Venice stands,—a carpet as rich ... ...the upper story,—gilt like those of a ducal palace,—so that the marvels of art are both under your feet and above your head. What delicate shadows! Ho... ... three-and-twenty, born at Bergamo, a pupil of Veluti’s and devoted to his art, a fine man, good-looking, clever in appre- hending the spirit of a par... ...ugh the dazzling medium of opium, she seems the very highest expression of art; for nature, without knowing it, has made her a Raphael picture. Y our ... ...erg, the Virgins of the Duomo, at Milan, the whole population of a hundred Gothic Cathe- drals, all the race of beings who burst their mould to visit ...

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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 ... ...ities began to come back into her mind, thinly disguised as literature and art. She read voraciously, and presently, because of her aunt’s censorship,... ...ch Ann Veronica had become very friendly. Mr. Widgett was a journalist and art critic, addicted to a greenish-gray tweed suit and “art” brown ties; he... ...t the entries of those great buildings whose square and panelled Victorian Gothic streams up from the glare of the lamps into the murkiness of the nig... ...l with shame and horror now became uppermost again. Before her was a great Gothic 183 H. G . Wells portal. Through that she had to go. Past her shot ...

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...ce made by an author so profoundly versed in the different branches of his art. By fixing, then, the date of my story Sixty Years before the present 1... ...ves, and low pocket-holes? The same may be urged, with equal truth, of the Gothic hall, which, with its darkened and tinted windows, its elevated and ... ...nity of acquiring habits of firm and assiduous application, of gaining the art of controlling, directing, and concentrating the powers of his mind for... ..., and concentrating the powers of his mind for ear- nest investigation,—an art far more essential than even that intimate acquaintance with classical ... ...flamed and increased its violence. The library at Waverley-Honour, a large Gothic room, with double arches and a gallery , contained such a mis- 21 S... ...n aim at him with the crossbow. In one spot, distinguished by a moss-grown Gothic monument, which retained the name of Queen’s Standing, Elizabeth her... ... very same time. Miss Stubbs had indeed summoned up every assistance which art could afford to beauty; but, alas! hoop, patches, frizzled locks, and a... ... each frequent angle a small turret, rather resembling a pepper-box than a Gothic watch-tower. Neither did the front indicate absolute security from d... ...aken under her special protection. A projecting turret gave access to this Gothic balcony, which commanded a most beau- tiful prospect. The formal gar...

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...n; his escape; and the great condescension of Miss Bridget Allworthy The Gothic stile of building could produce nothing nobler than Mr. Allworthy’s ... ...lawns, wood, and wa ter, laid out with admirable taste, but owing less to art than to nature, could give. Beyond this, the country gradu ally rose i... ...ing by Henry Fielding 28 The captain was indeed as great a master of the art of love as Ovid was formerly. He had besides received proper hints from... ...r have been brought to depose as she did, had not Mrs. Wilkins, with great art, fished all out of her at her own house, and had she not indeed made pr... ...size above the other’s match, yet Tom was much his supe rior at the noble art of boxing. Tom, however, cautiously avoided all engagements with that... ...of nature. And for this method we plead many precedents. First, this is an art well known to, and much practised by, our tragick poets, who seldom fai... ...ars old without knowing that she was her father’s relation.”—”O! more than Gothic ignorance,” answered the lady. “And as for your manners, brother, I ...

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... every direction, so that not the smallest cranny or dog-hole in Nature or Art can remain unilluminated,—it might strike the reflective mind with some... ...bs,—will depend on the nature of such Architectural Idea: whether Grecian, Gothic, Later Gothic, or altogether Modern, and Parisian or Anglo-Dan- diac... ...nd Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of Print- ing. The first ground handful of Nitre, Sulphur, and Char- co... ...alking, has a grateful effect. Observe too how fond they are of peaks, and Gothic- arch intersections. The male world wears peaked caps, an 35 Thomas... ...eate protuberance enough. Thus do the two sexes vie with each other in the art of Decoration; and as usual the stronger carries it.” Our Professor, wh... ...en?—Nature is good, but she is not the best: here truly was the victory of Art over Nature. A thunderbolt indeed might have pierced thee; all short of... ...cal and Biographical duty, grudge to reimpart) incurably infect therewith! Art thou the malignest of Sansculottists, or only the maddest? “It will rem...