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...nd me of the town, of course,” she said, “of the sculptured gables and the Gothic churches, of the wonderful Schloss, with its moat and its clustering... ...his umbrella. “Why should I come to see you?” he asked. “I know nothing of Art.” “It would sound very conceited, I suppose,” said Felix, “if I were to... ... and I should have no answer to that. I suppose a minister has no need for Art, eh?” “He has need for good temper, sir,” said Mr. Brand, with decision... ... I splash my red paint! I beg a thousand pardons! You see what bad manners Art gives a man; and how right you are to let it alone. I did n’t mean you ...

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...is, to unmask honest countenances; it’s no light task, I admit, but a real art.” Mr. Fix evidently was not wanting in a tinge of self-conceit. Little ... ...se goods finds its depot at the former place. Docks, hospitals, wharves, a Gothic cathedral, a government house, macadamised streets, give to Hong Kon... ...curiosity the wide streets, the low, evenly ranged houses, the Anglo-Saxon Gothic churches, the great docks, the palatial wooden and brick warehouses,...

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...never let these tastes bring him into debt or ex- travagance. His turn for art and music began to show itself, and the anthems at St. George’s Chapel ... ...lieve on Me through their word; that they all may be One, as Thou, Father, art in Me, and I in Thee, that they also may be One in Us: that the world m... ...on began, partly from the opening of his mind by the wonders of nature and art, and partly from the development of his genius for philology . Aptitude... ... study and endeavour at appreciation which everyone owes to great works of art, instead of turning aside with shallow conceit if he do not enter into ... ...ten happens, almost of bewilderment. He did not at first like the Lombardo-Gothic style, but he studied it carefully, and filled his letter with measu... ...logising.—’You must put up with a very stupid and unintelligible sermon on art. The genius loci would move the very stones to preach on such a theme. ... ...wenty years to see more than a vision—of a small but exceedingly beautiful Gothic chapel, rich inside with marbles and stained glass and carved stalls...

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... with the last beams of the sun playing in beautiful splendour on its high Gothic windows. But so low did the building stand, that she found herself p... ...ence, from having heard the general talk of his preserv- ing them in their Gothic form with reverential care, were yet less what her fancy had portray... ...portrayed. To be sure, the pointed arch was preserved—the form of them was Gothic—they might be even casements—but every pane was so large, so clear, ... ...was left unsearched, and in not one was any- thing found. Well read in the art of concealing a treasure, the possibility of false linings to the drawe... ... building enclosed a large court; and two sides of the quadrangle, rich in Gothic ornaments, stood for- ward for admiration. The remainder was shut of... ... behaved well to her. “Her picture, I suppose,” blushing at the consummate art of her own question, “hangs in your father’s room?” “No; it was intende...

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...t had no right when the children asked for the bread of life to offer them Gothic stone…. He began to make interminable weak plans for fulfilling his ... ...ater-colour accomplish- ments or none at all, and no other relations with “art.” At the skirts of this crowning British world Mrs. Garstein Fel- lows ... ...siveness. “That sort of thing belongs to the dark ages of the ‘pothecary’s art. I will tell you exactly my guesses and suppositions about you. At the ... ...had refused to replace; it was a design of very dark green leaves and grey gothic arches; and the apartment was lit by a chandelier, which spilt a poo...

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...m to do pro- vided you called them ‘level-headed.’ Wagstaffe the socialist art critic who could be trusted to play the fool and make nationalization l... ...that ex- alts human life, self-devotions, heroisms, the utmost triumphs of art, the love—for love it is—that makes you and me care indeed for the fate... ... I mean that irrationally and emotionally it has no significance. Works of art, for example, bore me, literature bores me, scen- ery bores me, even th... ... artist, ev- ery philosopher, every scientific investigator, so far as his art or thought went, has always got out of himself,—has forgot- ten his per... ...ere,” she said. Sir Richmond was in love with his idea. “The spirit of the Gothic cathedrals,” he said, “is the spirit of the sky-scrapers. It is arch... ...ed in a way that irritated me. He talked like an East Side Annunzio, about art and war. It made me furious to know it was all talk and that he didn’t ...

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...were within the gates of the sweep which led to the door of the verandahed Gothic cottage, which looked very tempting for summer’s lodging, but was li... ...angford fam- ily, was one chiefly noticeable for the superior taste of its Gothic canopy, and which bore the name of Frederick Henry Langford, with th... ...chanting or singing, “Greet thee well, thou holly green, Welcome, welcome, art thou seen, With all thy glittering garlands bending, As to greet my—qui... ...t answer: and Beatrice said, “It is a very odd thing, whenever any work of art—or, what shall I call it?—is well done, it is apt to have so much more ... ... in making figures of eight, and in all the other mysteries of the skating art, which they could scarcely enjoy more than he seemed to do. Henrietta, ...

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...But the present iceberg put her in mind of the sub- lime aspirations which gothic cathedrals seem as if they would fain embody. And then, she thought ... ...rom famine. ‘I know you had it for me,’ said Louis. ‘If Jane excels in one art before all others, it is in mutton-broth.’ Oliver darted a glance as if... ...ees, and full in front stood the wide space of stuccoed wall, with a great Gothic window full in the midst, and battlements in the castellated style o... ...hten her grandmother. There was a large glass door standing open under the Gothic window, and through it he led her out upon a wide green lawn. She dr...

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... mysterious, extraneous thing which has nothing to do with the theories of art; a subtle change in the nature of the inspiration; a phenomenon for whi... ... her hands hurriedly. She moaned a little louder. “Oh! Gian’ Battista, why art thou not here? Oh! why 22 Nostromo art thou not here?” She was not the... ... was guided by an alert perception of values. She was highly gifted in the art of human intercourse which consists in delicate shades of self-forgetfu... ...all be giving the word for everything: industry, trade, law, journal- ism, art, politics, and religion, from Cape Horn clear over to Smith’s Sound, an... ...roduced in both Americas. The air of the New World seems favourable to the art of declamation. Have you forgotten how dear Avellanos can hold forth fo... ...knives in their hands and put an end once for all to the Blancos, to these Gothic remnants, to these sinister mummies, these impo- tent paraliticos, w...

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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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...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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...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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...other, if he may so express himself, as the Ante chapel has to the body of a Gothic church. Continuing this allusion, he may be permitted to add, that... ...re a trouble to my dreams. Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought That givest to forms and images a breath And ... ...ortion of the river of my mind 210 Came from yon fountain?” Thou, my Friend! art one SCHOOL TIME (continued) 25 More deeply read in thy own thoughts;... ...ast, But as a succedaneum, and a prop 215 To our infirmity. No officious slave Art thou of that false secondary power By which we multiply distinctions,... ... and suiting gentleman’s array. The Evangelist St. John my patron was: Three Gothic courts are his, and in the first Was my abiding place, a nook obscu... ... be prompt To follow, and if thou, my honoured Friend! Who in these thoughts art ever at my side, 200 Support, as heretofore, my fainting steps. It ha... ...ecoration of ideal grace; A dignity, a smoothness, like the works Of Grecian art, and purest poesy. 460 A precious treasure had I long possessed, A li... ...red wall, Not without trembling, we in safety looked 215 Forth, through some Gothic window’s open space, And gathered with one mind a rich reward From... ...ed, might pace In sylvan meditation undisturbed; 445 As on the pavement of a Gothic church Walks a lone Monk, when service hath expired, In peace and ...

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...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... ... a silly compliment more smartly than that!” exclaimed Miriam. “Nature and art are just at one sometimes. But what a happy ignorance is this of our fr... ...ite repugnance to graves and skulls, and to all that ghastliness which the Gothic mind loves to associate with the idea of death. He shuddered, and lo... ... once en- joyed, but still longing to enjoy them over again.” “You bring a Gothic horror into this peaceful moonlight scene,” said Hilda. “Nay, I have... ...ts of Roman history, and Roman life itself, appear not so dis- tant as the Gothic ages which succeeded them. We stand in the Forum, or on the height o... ... hill with its ca- thedral, its many churches, and public edifices, all of Gothic architecture. With no more level ground than a single piazza in the ... ...kneeling before an altar. Whenever they found a cathedral, therefore, or a Gothic church, the two travellers were of one mind to enter it. In some of ...

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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... ...rs. All this part of the exterior of the cathedral is very brown, ancient, Gothic, grotesque; Balzac calls the whole place “a desert of stone.” A batt... ... terminating, a little beyond it, in the walk beside the river. An elegant Gothic doorway is let into the rusty- red brick-work, and strange little be... ...s of the Sacred Heart have erected a terribly modern convent here. A large Gothic doorway, in a high fragment of ancient wall, admits you to a garden-... ...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... ...thickens the shad- ows and makes dark, corners. There is a charming little Gothic chapel, with its apse hanging over the water, fas- tened to the left... ...n old town-gate, pass- ing under a mediaeval tower, which is ornamented by Gothic windows and the empty niches of statues; a mea- gre but delicate hot...

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... herrings swimming in a shoal. Notwithstanding the primitive aspect of the Gothic front, Monsieur Guillaume, of all the mer- chant clothiers in Paris,... ..., thirsted for real nature after long dwell- ing in the pompous land where art has everywhere left some- thing grandiose. Right or wrong, this was his... ...guilty as she per- ceived that there was a compact between herself and the art- ist. The suffocating heat, the dazzling sight of beautiful dresses, th... ... a few ells more of cloth,” said Joseph Lebas. This remark did not protect art and thought from being condemned once again before the judgment-seat of... ...s in a garden planted with evergreen trees. It was all bewitching, and the art of it was not perceptible. The whole spirit of the mistress of these ro... ...sweetness of this angel’s voice, might have touched a cannibal, but not an art- ist in the clutches of wounded vanity. “It is worthy of her!” exclaime...

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...in into all quarters of the world. Greece, so attractive by its remains of art, by its struggles for freedom against a Mohammedan tyrant, by its very ... ... the power of such invention, which is indeed one of the requisites of the art. 5 Sir Walter Scott Prince David of Scotland, who was actually in the ... ...lf to his usual serene gravity; “List to a Frank, and hear a fable.” “Thou art not courteous, misbeliever,” replied the Cru- sader, “to doubt the word... ...ers, by telling what is impossible, and reporting what never chanced. Thou art one of the knights of France, who hold it for glee and pastime to gab, ... ...ifferent nations. The Frank seemed a powerful man, built after the ancient Gothic cast of form, with light brown hair, which, on the removal of his he... ...but bright and keen Damascus blade, contrasted with the long and ponderous Gothic war-sword which was flung unbuckled on the same sod. The Emir was in... ...orresponding stair was seen to continue the ascent. In a third angle was a Gothic door, very rudely ornamented with the usual attributes of clustered ... ...orth the richest odours, hanging by silver chains from the roof of a small Gothic chapel, hewn, like most part of the hermit’s singular mansion, out o... ... double folding-door, the whole formed into the miniature resemblance of a Gothic church. 62 The Talisman As he gazed with anxious curiosity on the s...

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...it, the wine-skins at the bed-head, and those notable examples of hostelry art, Helen going off in high spirits on Paris’s arm, and Dido on the tower ... ...n. He was to found a great national drama, based on the true principles of art, that was to be the envy of all nations; he was to drive from the stage... ...nze statue in the little garden of the Plaza de las Cortes, a fair work of art no doubt, and unexceptionable had it been set up to the local poet in t... ...38 Don Quixote ORLANDO FURIOSO To Don Quixote of La Mancha SONNET If thou art not a Peer, peer thou hast none; Among a thousand Peers thou art a pe... ...er ruthless cruelty, This arm had might the rage of Hell to tame. But, Gothic Quixote, happier thou dost prove, For thou dost live in Dulcinea’... ...ns crowned with ruddy ears of corn, the wearers of iron, old relics of the Gothic race, those that bathe in the Pisuerga re- nowned for its gentle cur... ...as being rebuilt; in which box were found certain parchment manuscripts in Gothic character, but in Castilian verse, containing many of his achievemen... ... in such a fashion, and so unlike, that he had to write alongside of it in Gothic letters, ‘This is a cock; and so it will be with my history, which w... ...ou devoured, as erst Was famous Favila.” “That,” said Don Quixote, “was a Gothic king, who, going a- hunting, was devoured by a bear.” 583 Cervantes...

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...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... ...immed in regular forms; besides endless other applications of the topiary* art, which in those days (like the needlework of Miss Linwood in ours), tho... ...re than a mechanic craft, in some measure real- ized the effects of a fine art by the perfect skill of its execution. All these modes of luxury, with ... ...le, Marcus Aurelius raised the first ominous prece- dent in favor of those Gothic, Vandal, and Frankish hives, who were as yet hidden behind a cloud o... ...or instance, in Southey’s Don Roderick there is a cast of sentiment in the Gothic king’s remorse and contri- tion of heart, which has struck many read... ...nts, until at last the emperor succeeded in driving back the relics of the Gothic host into the fastnesses of the Balkan; and there the greater part o...

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...elf, “God keep thee in his hand, poor Don Quixote, for it seems to me thou art precipitating thyself from the height of thy madness into the pro- foun... ...hat are islands? Is it something to eat, glutton and gormandiser that thou art?” “It is not something to eat,” replied Sancho, “but something to gover... ...tunes belong more properly to knights-errant than to their squires.” “Thou art mistaken, Sancho,” said Don Quixote, “according to the maxim quando cap... ...o, being thy lord and master, I am thy head, and thou a part of me as thou art my servant; and therefore any evil that affects or shall affect me shou... ...ave thee tell me all that has come to thine ears on this subject; and thou art to tell me, without adding anything to the good or taking away anything... ... that 25 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. he had to write alongside of it in Gothic letters, ‘This is a cock; and so it will be with my history, which w... ...vila.” 213 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. “That,” said Don Quixote, “was a Gothic king, who, going a- hunting, was devoured by a bear.” “Just so,” sai...