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...AMS......107 CHAPTER IX - BEGGARS...................................118 CHAPTER X - LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART............................................127 CHAPTER XII - A CHRISTMAS SERMON.........140...

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...PTER X - LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLE- MAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART............................................127 CHAPTER XII - A CHRIST... ...s of that glaring description which we count too obvious for the purposes of art. The landing at Jersey City was done in a stampede. I had a fixed sen... ...ly this air is to be considered good or bad; but it belongs to that class of art which may be best described as a brutal assault upon the feelings. Pa... ... full of deportment, solemnly courteous, and doing all things with grace and decorum. In dress they ran to colour and bright sashes. Not even the most... ... the wall. As an antiquity in this new land, a quaint specimen of missionary architecture, and a memorial of good deeds, it had a triple claim to pres... ...y, which is the only covered portion of the church, is filled with seats and decorated for the service; the Indians troop together, their bright dress... ...re still pretty in their confusion, and the great plain that contrives to be decorative in its emp- tiness. II IN SPITE OF ITS REALLY considerable ext... ...ech goes spiring and casting forth her arms, and, with a grace beyond church architecture, canopies this rugged chaos. Meanwhile, dividing the two can...

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...G AWAKE.............................................................................................................................. 62 THE GHOST OF ART.................................................................................................................... 69 OUT OF TOWN .............................................................................................

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................................................. ........... 62 THE GHOST OF ART........................................................................... ... queer old wooden pier, fortunately with out the slightest pretensions to architecture, and very pic turesque in consequence. Boats are hauled up up... ...ing aspect. M. Feroce has saved so many people from drowning, and has been decorated with so many med als in consequence, that his stoutness seems a ... ...e joint Ducasse of the milliners and tailors, a wholesome knowledge of the art of making common and cheap things uncommon and pretty, by good sense an... ... littering the street; but, still, below these rents and gashes, layers of decomposing posters showed themselves, as if they were interminable. I thou... ...m and water. I embraced the oppor tunity of asking how many divisions the art and mystery of bill sticking comprised? He replied, three—auctioneers’ ... ...s delicious, and our breezy hills and downs, carpeted with wild thyme, and decorated with millions of wild flowers, are, on the faith of a pedestrian,... ...n them than glass, and we are not over fanciful in the way of deco rative architecture, and we get unexpected sea views through cracks in the street ... ...that dome shaped cavern, by innu merable columns of an unearthly order of architecture, sup porting nothing, and squeezed close together as if a Pre...

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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... ...her before, enormous wheels. The churches I saw were of the florid periwig architecture— I mean of that pompous cauliflower kind of ornament which was... ...solute; and I have always fancied that the bloated artificial forms of the architecture partake of the social disorganisation of the 13 Thackeray tim... ...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... ...cteristic style of Portuguese art. There is also a chapel, which has been decorated with much care and sumptuousness of ornament—the altar sur- mount... ...s of an admirable clean- liness, many of the tall houses of rich and noble decorations, and all looking as if the city were in full prosperity. I have... ...hemselves round the dingy tablecloth of the club-house coffee-room, richly decorated with cold gravy and spilt beer. I heard there the very names of t... ...man Catholic cathedral, a hideous new Protestant church of the cigar-divan architecture, and a Court-house with a portico which is said to be an imita...

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...ment. He is always with the beau-frere, a rather untidy, fat, bearded man, deco- rated, too, always smoking and looking at the feet of the ladies, who... ... the rest. The landlady wears diamond ear-rings; and the drawing-rooms are deco- rated with marble statues. I should indeed be sorry to let you know h... ... and though I am not sure I agree with him in his views of the relation of art to life and life to art, and in his inter- pretation of some of the gre... ... true of the others), but that places and things as well have acquired the art of pleasing. The houses are extremely good, and they look so extraordin... ...er- in-law tells me) in the machinery, which is magnificent. Naturally, no architecture (they make houses of wood and of iron), no art, no literature,... ...ent. Naturally, no architecture (they make houses of wood and of iron), no art, no literature, no theatre. I have opened some of the books; mais ils n...

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...hou hast spoken treason against the Norman, 11 Sir Walter Scott —and thou art but a cast-away swineherd,—thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as ... ...hy churchman rode upon a well-fed ambling mule, whose furniture was highly decorated, and whose bridle, ac- cording to the fashion of the day, was orn... ...d another part to play, which, when need- ful, he could sustain with great decorum. His knowledge of books, however superficial, was sufficient to imp... ...the dog where the deer lies, if I have no mind he should chase him.” “Thou art right,” said Gurth; “it were ill that Aymer saw the Lady Rowena; and it... ...ner done than the figure arose, exclaiming in good French, “Whosoever thou art, it is dis- courteous in you to disturb my thoughts.” “We did but wish ... ... who had taken his appro- priated seat upon a chair, the back of which was decorated with two ass’s ears, and which was placed about two steps behind ... ...resembling shark’s teeth, which appears so often in the more ancient Saxon architecture. A belfry rose above the porch on four small pillars, within w... ...higher degree of ornament, which the Normans had al- ready introduced into architecture. Cedric paced the apartment, filled with indignant reflec- tio... ...rt of theory on the subject, which, from some recent acquaintance with the architecture of the ancient Scandinavians, seemed to me peculiarly interest...

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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... ... palace. This palace was distinguished by a feature not very common in the architecture of Roman edifices; that is to say, a mediaeval tower, square, ... ...hey passed the portico of a T emple of Minerva, most rich and beautiful in architecture, but woefully gnawed by time and shattered by violence, beside... ... the nave. The interior of the church was of moderate compass, but of good architecture, with a vaulted roof over the nave, and a row of dusky chapels... ...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...

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...entury, Paris, London, St. Petersburg,—or what you will. If the axiom that architecture is the expression of manner and morals was ever proved, it was... ...t or nobility to give the tone, there is no harmony in the produc- tion of art. Never, on the other hand, has architecture dis- covered so many econom... ...re is no harmony in the produc- tion of art. Never, on the other hand, has architecture dis- covered so many economical ways of imitating the real and... ... arranged to suit the taste of the artist to whom Comte Adam entrusted the decoration of the house. It is too full of pretty nothings to be a place fo... ...is except that of the Baron de Nucingen, was at the end of a short gallery deco- rated in the manner of the middle-ages. This gallery opened on the si... ...en what a campaign once was to the sol- diers of the Empire. What works of art and genius are ex- pended on a gown or a garland in which to make a sen... ...go to the Bois either on horseback or in a carriage. She must practise the art of smiling, and must keep her mind on the stretch to invent new complim...

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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... ... palace. This palace was distinguished by a feature not very common in the architecture of Roman edifices; that is to say, a mediaeval tower, square, ... ...hey passed the portico of a T emple of Minerva, most rich and beautiful in architecture, but woefully gnawed by time and shattered by violence, beside... ... the nave. The interior of the church was of moderate compass, but of good architecture, with a vaulted roof over the nave, and a row of dusky chapels... ...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...

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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... ...ith its ca- thedral, its many churches, and public edifices, all of Gothic architecture. With no more level ground than a single piazza in the midst, ... ...er strata of thought, it was delightful to catch glimpses of the grand old architecture that stood around the square. The life of the flitting moment,... ...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... ...tion of St. Peter’s was a structure of no definite out- line, misty in its architecture, dim and gray and huge, stretch- ing into an interminable pers...

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...e, poets who, though by no means deficient in the higher branches of their art, were eminent for their powers of verbal melody above most who have pra... ...r or lodging; and I reckon thou wilt hardly wish to stay longer where thou art e’en but too well known.” “For that matter, uncle,” replied the travell... ...ed his uncle, “as eighteen years have gone over thy head, and I trust thou art somewhat amended in thy conditions, thou shalt not leave my house at th... ...h me at robbing the Abbot’s orchard. ’Tis but a little touch of alchemy to decoct thy house and land into ready money, and that ready money into a tal... ...orld!” “Thou hast taught him a secret, kinsman,” said Giles Gos- ling, “to decoct, an that be the word, his pound into a penny and his webs into a thr... ...nd broken in pieces; and a large summer-house, having a heavy stone front, decorated with carving represent- ing the life and actions of Samson, was i... ...fore, very unlike the monotonous stone pepperboxes which, in modern Gothic architecture, are em- 141 Sir Walter Scott ployed for the same purpose. On... ...or barbican, which still exists, and is equal in ex- tent, and superior in architecture, to the baronial castle of many a northern chief. Beyond the l... ...its different fronts magnificent specimens of every species of castellated architecture, from the Conquest to the reign of Elizabeth, with the appropr...

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...he amusement of young ladies. When you have read the account of Don Juan’s deco- rous parricide, try to picture to yourself the part which would be pl... ...hich, according to certain philosophers, is mak- ing progress, look on the art of waiting for dead men’s shoes as a step in the right direction? To th... ... of waiting for dead men’s shoes as a step in the right direction? To this art we owe several honorable professions, which open up ways of living on d... ...en were interchang- ing sweet talk. The white marble of the noble works of art about them stood out against the red stucco walls, and made strong cont... ...hat had begun to cast thin bluish veils over the fan- ciful marvels of the architecture, and the aisles were filled with splendor and perfume and ligh...

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...very eyes without our perceiving it. No one suspects how much solidity the art of printing has given both to the envy which pursues greatness, and to ... ...noclasms of the Calvinists, who did as much harm 8 Catherine dé Medici to art as to the body politic. Hemmed in between the Guises who claimed to be ... ...crifice either of money or self-love to draw to themselves supporters. The art of printing came to the aid of the opposition be- gun by the Vaudois an... ...ld, and covered with a tent-like awning in cloth of gold. This galley, the decoration of which cost twenty thousand ducats, contained several apartmen... ...le exposure to the north and south, that the counts of Blois built, in the architecture of the twelfth century, a castle where the famous Thibault de ... ...au. This third build- ing erected by Francois I. is more vast and far more deco- rated than the Louvre, the chateau of Henri II. It is in the style of... ...eco- rated than the Louvre, the chateau of Henri II. It is in the style of architecture now called Renaissance, and presents 70 Catherine dé Medici t... ...features of that style. Therefore, at a pe- riod when a strict and jealous architecture ruled construc- tion, when the Middle Ages were not even consi... ...st important of which was called the “Galerie des Cerfs” on account of its decora- tion. This gallery led to the magnificent staircase which, no doubt...

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...ich the walls of the different chapels were profusely hung. I will not say decorated, for they were very roughly and comically got up; most likely by ... ...dist chapel. This is the Sala. It has five windows and five doors, and is decorated with pictures which would glad den the heart of one of those pic... ... where, by contrast with some fresh little Cupids, who on a more recently decorated portion of the front, are stretching out what seems to be the sem... ...hat anything short of a real man could be so tedious. It is the triumph of art. 46 Pictures from Italy In the ballet, an Enchanter runs away with the... ...mourn ful and depressing influence. It is miserable to see great works of art—something of the Souls of Painters—perishing and fading away, like huma... ...ther times! I wonder, above all, why it is the great feature of do mestic architecture in Italian inns, that all the fire goes up the chimney, except... ...tiest houses. Past plots of garden, theatres, shrines, prodigious piles of architecture—Gothic— Saracenic—fanciful with all the fancies of all times a... ...n hundred years ago. With its marble fit ted churches, lofty towers, rich architecture, and quaint old quiet thoroughfares, where shouts of Montagues... ...ed Pig. What a gallery it was! I would take their opinion on a question of art, in preference to the discourses of Sir Joshua Reynolds. Now that we we...

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...e acts of a people who had sunk so low as to exult in their chains, and to decorate with honors the very instru- ments of their own vassalage, would n... ...f civic distinc- tion, and in his own, to little or none. The same titular deco- ration, therefore, so offensive to the celebrated Whig, was, in the e... ...d, that, according to the remark of Jeremy Taylor, of all the men signally decorated by history, Augustus Cæsar is that one who exemplifies, in the mo... ...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... ... silently and steadily through seven centuries ascended under the colossal architecture of the children of Romulus, to watch the unweaving of the gold...

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...s, whose mode of treat- ment it adopts. It is, to be sure, more decent and decorous, but it treats “Don Quixote” in the same fashion as a comic book t... ...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... ...ey are St. Thomases or other doctors of the Church, observing as they do a decorum so ingenious that in one sentence they describe a dis- tracted love... ...ith us, about what we have considered and discussed, for as Dulcinea is so decorous that she does not wish her thoughts to be known it is not right th... ... skilful construction and ingenu- ity of the vast fabric and its wonderful architecture, and when they had left the skylight he said to the emperor, ‘...

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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... ...t will be only to practise it for two or three years; and then dignity and decorum will fit her as easily as a glove; and if not, what matter? Let her... ... skilful construction and ingenu- ity of the vast fabric and its wonderful architecture, and when they had left the skylight he said to the emperor, ‘... ...some special chapters to it, which, in order to preserve the propriety and deco- rum due to a history so heroic, he did not insert therein; although a... ...s, he must be faithful to God and to his lady; he must be pure in thought, decorous in words, generous in works, valiant in deeds, patient in sufferin...

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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... ...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... ...ime is gold, especially to you artists. I permit myself to say to you that architecture 64 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau is the union of all the a... ...use. Four years earlier Monsieur Grindot had carried off the grand prix in architecture, and had lately returned from Rome where he had spent three ye... ...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...

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...d to ask for a more determi- nate adjudication on their claims as works of art. At present, I feel authorized to make haughtier pretensions in right o... ...he grave, the coffin, the face are sealed up forever and ever. Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humbl... ...y illumination (from the sun) mingling with the earthly emblazonries (from art and its gorgeous coloring) of what is grandest in man. There were the a... ...ese, though condemned on some grounds by the restorers of authentic church architecture, have, nev- 40 Thomas de Quincey ertheless, this one advantag... ...n, upon the discovery of some supposed energy that I had manifested, I was decorated with the Order of the Bath. My reading had been extensive enough ... ... enough to give me some vague aerial sense of the honor involved in such a decoration, whilst I was pro- foundly ignorant of the channels through whic... ...h my brother con- sidered particularly vulgar, since natural propriety and deco- rum should have whispered to an old lady that a young gentle- man mig... ...aerial succession: so, and by similar steps, she achieves a char- acter of architecture justifying, as it were, the very promise of her name; and with...

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... diploma young ladies I am consid- ered quite passee—” “My dear! With your art, and music, and all!” “T oo true! And while I was digesting a polite hi... ...e.” “Waring Grange they call it. He has got on wonderfully as upholsterer, decorator, and auctioneer. It is a very handsome one, with a garden that ge... ...ng on.” “Ah, the Delrios! Are they here?” “Yes, poor Fred did not make his art succeed when he had a family to provide for, and he is the head of the ... ...ken on by the firm of Eccles and Co., who do a great deal of architectural decoration. The boy is doing very well, but there have been giggles and whi... ... which Magdalen foresaw would be a long affair with Mrs. Best. After their decorous stillness at breakfast, it was a contrast to hear the merry voices... ...s fixed, and then Magdalen showed some of the advertisements of tuition in art, music, languages, and everything imaginable, which had begun to pour i... ...celebrities, the undergraduates, the concerts, the chapels, the boats, the architecture; all were touched on for further discussion by and by as they ... ...ey have been sitting on deck together, talking as much as they could about architecture and Italy, with their breath all blown away every moment. Ther...

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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... ... 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... ...fairly well built of a species of slaty stone with granite courses, has no architecture; it pre- sents to the eye a plain wall with windows at regular... ...mplicity in the arrangement of this floor, carefully avoiding all splendid decoration. The salon, painted gray, is furnished in old mahogany with gree...