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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... ...n she cast me off, I had no longer any terms to keep with the reserves and decorums of my sex. Hilda has set me free! Pray tell her so, from Miriam, a... ..., when she cast me off, it severed some few remaining bonds between me and decorous womanhood. But were there anything to forgive, I do forgive her. M... ...tator. Then there are chapels, opening from the side aisles and transepts, deco- rated by princes for their own burial places, and as shrines for thei... ...emed prefer- able to the cathedral which Michael Angelo, and all the great architects, had built; because, of the dream edifice, she had said, “How va... ... fair relation with the minds and purposes of its spiri- tual and material architects,—I see but one or two criticisms to make. One is, that it needs ...

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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... ...sition could Miriam explain the identity of the dead Capuchin, quietly and decorously laid out in the nave of his convent church, with that of her mur... ...or of which consists of the consecrated earth of Jerusalem. It is smoothed deco- rously over the deceased brethren of the convent, and is kept quite f... ...n she cast me off, I had no longer any terms to keep with the reserves and decorums of my sex. Hilda has set me free! Pray tell her so, from Miriam, a... ...emed prefer- able to the cathedral which Michael Angelo, and all the great architects, had built; because, of the dream edifice, she had said, “How va... ... fair relation with the minds and purposes of its spiri- tual and material architects,—I see but one or two criticisms to make. One is, that it needs ...

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...tiful workmanship, hung from the centre of the ceiling. The same system of deco- ration was followed in the smallest details, and even to the ceiling ... ...ine model of the old school, gave substance and richness to the rather too decorative quality, as a painter might call it, of the rest of the room. On... ...two etageres dis- played a hundred precious trifles, flowers of mechanical art brought into bloom by the fire of thought. On a chimney- piece of slate... ...The confessors had 8 A Daughter of Eve decided that music was a Christian art, born of the Catholic Church and developed within her. The two Maries w... ...his lips. His iron-gray hair, falling naturally like that of the Christ in art, added to his ecstatic air a certain solemnity which was absolutely dec... ...anity and proclaims his wealth, I have no occasion to ex- press a wish. He decorates my apartments; he spends enor- mous sums upon my entertainments; ... ...elix, however, found in his work the same pleasure that painters, writers, architects take in their creations. He dou- bly enjoyed both the work and i...

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...ris; the prefect, selecting among the deputies suitable persons to be thus decorated, has placed my name first on the list. The king moreover knows 8... ...etting information on build- ing from the department of public works, from architects and contractors. Monsieur Grindot, the young architect who is to... ...ok, and lived in the entresol above the shop,—a sort of den tolerably well decorated by an upholsterer, where the bride and bridegroom began a honeymo... ...is eyes lighted on the following title, yellow with dust: “Abdeker, or the Art of Preserving Beauty.” He picked up the so-called Arab book, a sort of ... ...and the land in the Faubourg du T emple; he built large manufactories, and decorated his shop at “The Queen of Roses” with much magnificence; his hous... ...These striking points of information on the French lan- guage, on dramatic art, politics, literature, and science, will explain the bearings of the bo... ...hree years at the cost of the State. In Italy the young man had dreamed of art; in Paris he thought of fortune. Government alone can pay the needful m... ... her daughter, the fantastic movements of the four-foot rule, that wand of architects and builders, with which Grindot was measuring. She saw in those... ...gle house upon them; he was speculating only on the value of the land; but architects and contractors are to each other very much what authors and act...

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...ve me.” And then, when he caught the sound of my voice, he continued: “And art thou, my brother, likewise unwilling to see me at peace? O, how thou ro... ... Naturally each workman feels himself more strong in some special part his art, and those are to be regarded as most fortunate, who lay hands on the n... ...virgin, and having, in the other figures, laid out the utmost power of his art, when he came to that of her father, he drew him with a veil over his f... ... the end, that the effect of imagination may supply the imposture of their decoctions? They know very well, that a great master of their trade has giv... ...he courteous reader; neither does he care to know it. Indeed all this fine decoration of painting is easily effaced by the lustre of a simple and blun... ...d. And what did the other man say? The Athenians were to choose one of two architects for 230 Essays: Book the First a very great building they had d... ...he words.”—Quintilian, viii. 3.] And as another says, “Qui, alicujus verbi decore placentis, vocentur ad id, quod non proposuerant scribere.” [“Who by... ...the same operation upon other men that it has upon me, but when I hear our architects thunder out their bombast words of pilasters, ar- chitraves, and...

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...ustry, working for the masses, goes on destroying the creations of ancient art, the works of which were once as personal to the consumer as to the art... ...of fantastic beasts climb up the angles, animated by that great thought of Art, which in those old days gave life to inanimate nature. These relics, r... ...d down his chisel. This escutcheon would delight a lover of the heral- dic art by a simplicity which proves the pride and the antiq- uity of the famil... ...ed, like the sister-tower, with a pepper-pot. This is how those charm- ing architects varied the symmetry of their sky-lines. These towers are connect... ...c man- sion adjoins the next house. The harmony so carefully sought by the architects of those days is maintained in the facade looking on the court-y... ...an school depraved by its commerce with the East, where the semi-Saracenic architects, careless of the great Catholic thought, give four leaves to clo... ... the vivacity of the brown eyes, which preserved, nevertheless, a priestly decorum. His gaiety, that of a man whose conscience was calm and pure, admi... ... a church except to look at the pictures. She has spent quite a fortune in decorat- ing Les Touches in a most improper fashion, making it a Mohammedan... ...mplicity in the arrangement of this floor, carefully avoiding all splendid decoration. The salon, painted gray, is furnished in old mahogany with gree...

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...r, the crisp upward wave of her hair—was it ever so slightly brightened by art?—and the thick planting of her straight black lashes. Everything about ... ... time—and you won’t meet any bores.” Her colour deepened—she still had the art of blushing at the right time—but she took the suggestion as lightly as... ...midity might serve her purpose better than too much assurance. She had the art of giving self-confi- dence to the embarrassed, but she was not equally... ...d himself on his elbow. “Good heavens!” he went on, “I don’t underrate the decorative side of life. It seems to me the sense of splendour has justifie... ... a festal assemblage as one of those airy pleasure-halls which the Italian architects impro- vised to set off the hospitality of princes. The air of i... ...surveying the scene with frank enjoyment. The company, in obedience to the deco- rative instinct which calls for fine clothes in fine surroundings, ha... ...wn stone front, the windows draped with discoloured lace, and the Pompeian decoration of the muddy vestibule; then he looked back at her 272 House of...

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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... ...ng women who, with calves bulging in heavy-ribbed woolen stockings beneath decorous blue serge bloomers, thuddingly gal- loped across the floor of the... ..., 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... ...st a fireplace. “We’ll have a new house in a couple of years, anyway.” She decorated only one room. The rest, Kennicott hinted, she’d better leave til... ...Even while they were removing their overshoes they were peeping at the new decorations. Carol saw Dave Dyer secretively turn over the gold pillows to ... ...ows that have been making movies for ten years how to direct ‘em; and tell architects how to build towns; and make the maga- zines publish nothing but... ...mining-settlement like a tumor. A booming semi- city with parks and clever architects, visited by famous pianists and unctuous lecturers, but irritabl...

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... to her deportment. I reported to Lord Massey, in terms of unexceptionable decorum, those flattering expres- sions of homage, which sometimes from the... ...as the elementary base of Schreiber; and the superstructure, or Corinthian decoration of his fron- tispiece, was, that Schreiber cultivated one sole s... ...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... ...nave that personally I have known. It may illustrate the way in which lady architects, without professional aid, are and ever will be defrauded, that,... ... is by imperfect power, turned against its master, that men are snared and decoyed. Here in Oxford I should be called upon to commence a sort of es- t...

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...nd their country, and in whom war had not yet smothered the senti- ment of art, were so much struck by the scene which lay spread before their eyes th... ...tively with inquiring eyes. “You know,” continued Hulot, who possessed the art of speaking picturesquely as soldier to soldiers, “that it won’t do for... ...on worn across his chest. The eyes of the commandant, caught by this royal decoration (then almost forgotten by republicans), turned quickly to the yo... ...ifferent air, but she gave her companions one of those furtive glances the art of which belongs to women and diplomatists), “you must fear the Chouans... ...e the ornaments on a hearse. The style of the doors, the coarseness of the decorations, the want of harmony in the architecture, were all characterist... ...ide, we may compare it to one of those im- mense towers circled by Saracen architects with balconies on each story, which were reached by spiral stair... ...ance the shops have the same type of door though 174 The Chouans far more decorated, the lower half possessing a call-bell. The door in question open... ...at the appearance of a person who bore some resemblance to the heads which architects attach to window-casings. “Ha! you come from d’Orgemont?” answer...

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...here the paper and paint are as fresh as the bride and bridegroom, and the decorations are in blossom like their love; everything is in harmony with y... ...style. Any amateur would have discerned there the sense of distinction and decorative fit- ness which mark the work of modern French architects. For a... ... distinction and decorative fit- ness which mark the work of modern French architects. For above a month Caroline had been at home in this apart- ment... ...re for the world —she had not caught the elegance of manner or learned the art of conversation, abounding in words and devoid of ideas, which is curre... ...oks. He was soon estab- lished in a room crammed with papers, and left the decora- tion of the house to his wife. He was all the better pleased to plu... ...? At this date the school of David was at the height of its glory; all the art of France bore the stamp of his correct design and his love of antique ...

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...listen to the promptings of nature, and not to the siren-like delusions of art. Now we must not lose sight of the fact that our esteemed friend has a ... ... mean to say, sir, that you don’t know what has happened! That you haven’t decoyed us here, and laid a plot and a plan against us! Will you venture to... ... HELD ON THAT OCCASION, AND THE GREAT ENJOY- MENT OF MR PINCH T HE BEST OF ARCHITECTS and land surveyors kept a horse, in whom the enemies already men... ...mile—of love for thee, Tom Pinch, and not in jest at thy expense, for thou art poor enough already , Heaven knows— to think that such a holiday as lie... ...yonder crust upon the seat beside thee, to be eaten on the road, when thou art calmer in thy high rejoicing! Who, as thou drivest off, a happy, man, a... ...e that I may one day give to the world. We work here, my dear Martin. Some architects have been bred in this room; a few, I think, Mr Pinch?’ Tom full... ...on account of its dimensions, as there were materials in the house for the decoction of half a dozen more of the same size. Good gracious, how they la... ... of dexterity: whereof the main purpose of every one was, that you were to decoy somebody into laying a wager with you that you couldn’t do it; and we... ...wn hands at the National Hotel) bearing the inscription, Chuzzlewit & Co., Architects and Surveyors, which he displayed upon the most con- spicuous pa...

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...appo- site, how intelligible they were, when read with simple and distinct decorum! But how much of the meaning of the words was lost when they were p... ...gh worn with that purpose. She well knew the great architectural secret of decorating her construc- tions, and never condescended to construct a decor... ...but Charlotte would assuage him with some peculiar triumph of her culinary art, and all again would be smooth for a while. Madeline affected all manne... ...nd Charlotte Stanhope followed to see that all was done with due grace and decorum. In this manner they climbed easily into the drawing-room, and a br... ...om, with no one present but her sister to repress either her nature or her art. Mr Slope had thus left her quite bewil- dered, and could not willingly... ...owed to the novelist to explain his views on a very important point in the art of telling tales. He ventures to reprobate that system which goes so fa... ...y homely folk, nothing can equal the square mullioned windows of the Tudor architects. The hall was hung round with family female insipidities by Lely...

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...rius, as to his re- nown, in proving that he was able to conquer places by art, which were impregnable by the force of arms. So long as he had to do w... ...h and florid, and his shape as delicate as if his limbs had been carved by art in the most accurate proportions. He was not a great orator, but winnin... ...rs with the same nation, as this would be to instruct their enemies in the art of it. Meanwhile, the allies of Sparta were not a little discon- tented... ...t, Perpenna, and finding him acting merely at random in his affairs, had a decoy ready for him, and sent out a detachment of ten co- horts into the le... ...fter he had measured and staked out the ground with the advice of the best architects, he chanced one night in his sleep to see a wonderful vision; a ... ... and tragedies, remarkable not merely for the splendor of the equipage and decorations, but for the com- petition among those who exhibited them. For ... ...e way in which sometimes, to make his orations more striking, he neglected decorum and dignity. When Munatius, who had escaped conviction by his advoc...

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...ord! Ah! the wild little wretches!” And the worthy Bazin distributed right and left blows which in- creased the cries of his scholars by changing the ... ...d; the men breathed as if they had been taken out of a coffin, and examined each other complacently. After this examination they turned their eyes tow... ...with him to several reconnoiterings, in such a way as to obtain that which he evidently warmly desired, — a re- habilitation in the mind of D’Artagnan... ... Done, a Country-seat from a Deal Box THE KING’S WORDS regarding the wounded pride of Monk had not inspired D’Artagnan with a small portion of ap- pre... ...y,” said La Fontaine, “does not our master Epicurus descend into the garden? Epicurus never abandoned his pupils, the master is wrong.” “Monsieur,” sa... ...ed an inexpressible martyrdom. “You will recol- lect that name,” added Louis XIV . Colbert bowed, but was paler than his ruffles of Flemish lace. Fouq... ... or barge, decked with flags, and capable of holding about twenty rowers and fif- teen passengers, was slowly lowered from the side of the 599 Dumas ... ...e sentinels could not lose a word, he observed, — “I hope you have a good memory, monsieur?” “Why?” inquired Aramis. “On account of your plans and you...

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...ssistant in the erec- tion of the new church, and indeed had added all the deco- rations which the Vicar’s limited means, aided by a subscrip- tion, c... ...antity of beau- tiful flowers, which had been brought from Merton Hall, to decorate the Vicarage on this occasion. Mrs. Woodbourne was sitting at her ... ...not think herself learned.’ ‘I thought they were not likely to promote the decoration of the new church,’ said Anne. ‘Oh! she does not trouble herself... ...sly sketched but neatly shaded head drawn by Jane, both which specimens of art Anne tried hard to admire for Helen’s sake, but could not find it in he... ...ee Papa I do not know when. It really was a very convenient thing when the architects of the old Ger- man cathedrals used to take a desperate leap fro... ...up a pen. ‘Oh!’ said Elizabeth, ‘I suppose we may expect a treatise on the art of fortification, salient angles, and covered ways, not forgetting the ... ...y useful person in the house; and Harriet believes no one her equal in the art of fascina- tion; and Mrs. Woodbourne thinks no children come within a ...

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...ted assurances of his na- tive rectory, and held by Church, Crown, Empire, decorum, respectability, solvency—and compulsory Greek at the Little Go—as ... ... is peace,” forgetting altogether among other oversights the importance of architects and builders in local affairs. His proposal seemed for a time to... ...he fifteenth century, and on the left a rather more numerous group of less decorative ar- tisans. With them their wives and children had been shown, a... ...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 ... ... enthusiastic. She was really on proba- tion for higher levels; it was her decolletage delayed her. If only she kept off theosophy and the Keltic rena... ...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 ...

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... lot of time.” She looked at him expectantly, as if between them they were decorating a small figure of herself, and she saw him hesitating in the dis... ...agree- ably mixed with books which bore the gilt of college arms; and, for decoration, there hung upon the wall photo- graphs of bridges and cathedral... ...great days of the nineteenth century, when every department of letters and art was represented in England by two or three illustrious names. Where are... ...th a character of its own. Perhaps it was the chief triumph of Katharine’s art that Mrs. Hilbery’s character pre- dominated. She and Mr. Hilbery appea... ...people who wished to meet, either for purposes of enjoyment, or to discuss art, or to reform the State, had a way of suggesting that Mary had better b... ...e Minister advancing to meet his Cabinet. By his orders the table had been decorated beforehand with six sheets of blotting-paper, with six pens, six ... ...ccasion William was ready to give such discriminat- ing praise as the dead architects and painters received seldom in the course of the year. They wer...

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...ndless task, we may state without many words. We find, then, in Goethe, an Art- ist, in the high and ancient meaning of that term; in the mean- ing wh... ...or, to say nothing of his natural gifts, he has cultivated himself and his art, he has studied how to live and to write, with a fidelity , an unwearie... ...dmiration, and perhaps still more the pride, of the country, as a piece of art; a high enthusiasm was abroad; Lessing had roused the minds of men to a... ...y performed. Soon growing weary of it, however, we changed the dresses and decorations, and attempted various other pieces, which were indeed on too g... ... pleasant impression upon me. I can even now recall the youths and maidens decorated with ribbons, and their gestures. It was not long before the wish... ...ich is woven to adorn the poet. 161 Goethe Fifth Book E VERY BIRD HAS ITS DECOY, and every man is led and misled in a way peculiar to himself. Nature... ...ible marriage that perhaps ever was consummated? Is there among the French architects, deco- rators, upholsterers, not a single man who understands th...

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...cting in opposite directions upon the estimation of the stage and scenical art, and therefore of all the ministers in its equipage. Puritanism frowned... ... in that age an article of dress more costly by much, and more elaborately decorated, than in our own. They were a customary present from some cities ... ...iner language, and in which the restraints of fac- titious or conventional decorum are exchanged for the re- straints of mere sexual decency. It is a ... ... natural gifts as himself, may give us the key to the result: “Gentle thou art, and therefore to be won; Beauteous thou art, therefore to be assail’d;... ... himself, it may be said, that “within that circle” (the circle of his own art)” none durst tread but he, “solemnly and for ever renounces his mysteri... ... of Grecian life, unless when high tragical catas- trophes transcended the decorums of that tenor, or for a brief interval raised the curtain which ve... ...and for reasons resting upon the same ultimate philosophy, were the mighty architects of 55 Thomas de Quincey the Greek tragedy . They also were mono...

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...nce inventions and adventures. It was not a science then – it was a living art; and it visibly grew under the eyes and between the hands of its practi... ...ion.’ If my grandfather were throughout life a thought too studious of the art of getting on, much must be for- given to the bearded and belated stude... ...en a midwife is recom- mended, not at all for proficiency in her important art, but because she has ‘a sister whom I [the correspondent] es- teem and ... ...ts and figures, by the same writer in a letter to the Civil Engineers’ and Architects’ Journal, 1862. 61 Records of a Family of Engineers rock those ... ...the Hedderwick praam-boat, which had just been brought from Leith, and was decorated with colours for the occasion. Flags were also displayed from the... ... made sail for Arbroath, which she reached about six p.m. The vessel being decorated with colours, and hav- ing fired a salute of three guns on approa... ...ear of his reign, the shipping of the Lighthouse service were this morning deco- rated with colours according to the taste of their respec- tive capta...

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...olly hedge around was grown by him from the berries of the first Christmas decoration, which he sowed in a row under the wall of the boys’ school, and... ...xperience gained at Otterbourne, so as to aim at Early English rather than Deco- rated style. A bell turret, discovered later at Leigh Delamere in Wil... ...ggested by the schoolmaster’s little daughter going into church before the decoration had been put up, and exclaiming, disappointed, “No Christmas!” “... ...h the old Psalm—In Thee I put my stedfast trust, Defend me, Lord, for Thou art just, is another Ampfield scene, inspiring noble and gentle thoughts fo... ...ch progress had been made during these nine years in ecclesiology, so that architects who had made it their study were to be found. The design was com... ...o push or pull out. Scotch (howk). Stook, the foundation of a bee hive. Pe-art, bright, lively, the original word bearht for both bright and pert. Loo... ...xcellent, and he was also noted for what were called Otterbourne buns, the art of making which seems to have gone with him. They were small fair-compl...