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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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...harge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania... ...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... ... State with Euclid, with Bellefontaine, and with Sandusky. Chelsea, with its London associations of red brick, Sloane Square, and the King’s Road, is ... ... 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... ...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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...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State U... ................................................. ........... 62 THE GHOST OF ART........................................................................... ...ty of getting into the shafts himself, and drawing the cart of crockery to London—a somewhat exhaust ing pull of thirty miles. That he did not ventur... ... 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... ...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 ...

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...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the gran...

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...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...ce, none at all—in the grandeur of architectural display. Speaking even of London, we ought in all reason to say—the Nation of London, and not the Cit... ...n, we ought in all reason to say—the Nation of London, and not the City of London; but of Rome in her palmy days, nothing less could be said in the na... ...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... ...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 ... ... 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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...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...t, floated on the Thames, be- tween Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an autumn evening was closing in. The f... ...s changed swiftly , and the deepening shad- ows and the kindling lights of London Bridge were passed, and the tiers of shipping lay on either hand. It... ...ch it had probably acquired in warehousing), and damp, alike had a look of decomposition. ‘The gentleman, father.’ The figure at the red fire turned, ... ... a literary man—with a wooden leg—’ he bestowed an admiring look upon that decoration, as if it greatly en- hanced the relish of Mr Wegg’s attainments... ...cellaneous. I have just sent home a Beauty—a perfect Beauty—to a school of art. One leg Bel- gian, one leg English, and the pickings of eight other pe... ...rofits of it?’ ‘She knows the profits of it, but she don’ t appreciate the art of it, and she objects to it. “I do not wish,” she writes in her own ha... ...e imagined to trace a family resemblance between the cherubs in the church architecture, 657 Charles Dickens and the cherub in the white waistcoat. S...

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... has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains a few ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Make... ...e Autumn of 1844. Most faithfully yours, My dear Lewis, W. M. Thackeray. London:December 24, 1845. PREFACE ON THE 20TH OF AUGUST, 1844, the writer o... ... 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... ...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...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Point of View by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...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... ... country-house in the dusk of a winter’s day? Have you ever made a call in London, when you knew nobody but the hostess? People here are more expressi... ...ain on this terribly hard spot. I am extremely sorry to have missed you in London, but I received your little note, and took due heed of your injuncti... ...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,...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Paz by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, th... ...f, the sea, the tossing waves of what we call society, the century, Paris, London, St. Petersburg,—or what you will. If the axiom that architecture is... ...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...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

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...Introduction: A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ?her sister and her foe,? the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have approached the task with the sam...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...pointment; and Sir Richard V arney the other, dying about the same time in London, cried miserably, and blasphemed God, and said to a person of note (... ...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... ...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... ...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...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the cen...

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...n or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne Complete Two Volumes in One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Marble Faun... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...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 ... ... 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... ...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... ...mparted to her relative as from one dead and gone.” “Yes, it is clear as a London fog,” I remarked. “On this head no further elucidation can be desire...

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...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ions, fresh from the shady halls of the Pantechnicon near Belgrave Square, London, was observed (by a very small French sol dier; for I saw him look ... ...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... ...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...

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...The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne In Two Volumes Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ...e of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ...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,... ...mparted to her relative as from one dead and gone.” “Yes, it is clear as a London fog,” I remarked. “On this head no further elucidation can be desire...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania ... ...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... ...ese, though condemned on some grounds by the restorers of authentic church architecture, have, nev- 40 Thomas de Quincey ertheless, this one advantag... ... side, of Manchester. But so it was. Oxford Street, like its name- sake in London, was then called the Oxford Road; and dur- ing the currency of our a... ...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... ...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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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Modern Broods, or Developments Unlooked For by Charlotte M. Yon... ... 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... ...celebrities, the undergraduates, the concerts, the chapels, the boats, the architecture; all were touched on for further discussion by and by as they ... ...hing had been discovered, and to telegraph to Filsted and to the office in London if he should see occasion. Then he drove off, in what would have bee... ...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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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State U... ...hotel to the Boscastle surgery, and from the surgery, after some weeks, to London. But he still resisted every attempt at reanimation. After a time, f... ...ame from the spacious area below. His first impression was of overwhelming architecture. The place into which he looked was an aisle of Titanic buildi... ...hrust him forward across the bridge, and he was in a little narrow passage decorated with geometrical patterns. “I want to see more of that,” cried Gr... ...any of the places Graham had see thus far, this second hall appeared to be decorate with extreme rich- ness. On a pedestal at the remote end, and more... ...y V enusberg. He forgot the part played by the model in nineteenth century art, and gave way to an archaic indignation. He rose, angry and half ashame... ...had spoken. Strange places reminiscent of the legendary Sybaris, cities of art and beauty, mercenary art and mercenary beauty, sterile wonderful citie... ...onstructed of the compound of aluminium and iron that had replaced iron in architecture. Their higher tiers formed an openwork of girders through whic...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed... ...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... ...er to the question when it was proposed to add a life of the author to the London edition pub- lished at Lord Carteret’s instance in 1738. All traces ... ...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... ...to recognise the right of “Don Quixote” to better treatment than this. The London edition of 1738, commonly called Lord Carteret’s from having been su... ...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... ... 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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...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottlan... ...rsonages in the suite of the captive Queen, it must be remembered that the art of the story-teller makes it needful to curtail some of the incidents w... ... with a girdle, in which he carried writing tools. “Ha, Cuthbert Langston, art thou there?” said the captain, rising. “Thou art kindly welcome. Sit do... ...hould let her Grace be beset by a child, who, if she cannot demean herself deco- rously, should have been left at home. Susan Hardwicke, I thought I h... ...nd thankfulness when one of the many messengers constantly passing between London and Sheffield brought a packet from Humfrey, whose ship had put into... .... Most conspicuous among them was a large freshly-built erection in T udor architecture, with a wide portal arch, and five separate gables starting fr... ...tarting from one central building, which bore a large clock-tower, and was decorated at every corner with the Talbots’ stout and sturdy form. This was... ...for the humours of London; and it may be feared that this, rather than the architecture, was the chief idea in the minds of the 245 Char...

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