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...ct art on a practical basis for hundreds of years. It is one reason why many artists were ahead of their time. Because when they used the concept ... ...nfinity around their necks for over 200 years now: first as scholars, then as artists, and finally as a fashion statement denoting the highest socia... ...y incapable of mechanically identifying or measuring life- energy at all. Artists have a saying of how things which they create, take on a life o... ...cumulate material things. As a result of this… there are almost no fossil records of the first modern humans, there is no way of knowing how the... ...r inventions have disappeared by the hundreds… destroyed, bought up and their records coincidentally burnt or lost. All because of the insane idea o... ...r inventions have disappeared by the hundreds… destroyed, bought up and their records coincidentally burnt or lost. All because of the insane idea o... ...rom bric-a-brac to gold coins, portraits, still pictures of decapitated heads, cameos, brooches, belt buckles, shoe buckles, still photographs of dec...

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...and ask little reason wherefore. Of these four friends of ours, three were artists, or con- nected with art; and, at this moment, they had been simul-... ...ion had been carried on in a mood in which all imaginative people, whether artists or poets, love to indulge. In this frame of mind, they sometimes fi... ... those living models, dark, bushy bearded, wild of aspect and attire, whom artists convert into saints or as- sassins, according as their pictorial pu... ... the picture excited. “Everywhere we see oil-paint- ings, crayon sketches, cameos, engravings, lithographs, pre- tending to be Beatrice, and represent... ...that one obliterates another; as if Time had crossed and recrossed his own records till they grew illegible. But, not to meddle with history,—with whi... ...uld have found delight in tracing out, link by link, and authenticating by records and documentary evidences. It would have been as difficult, how- ev... ...ut with gold or coral beads, a pair of heavy earrings, a curiously wrought cameo or mosaic brooch, and a silver comb or long stiletto among her glossy...

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...and ask little reason wherefore. Of these four friends of ours, three were artists, or con- nected with art; and, at this moment, they had been simul-... ...ion had been carried on in a mood in which all imaginative people, whether artists or poets, love to indulge. In this frame of mind, they sometimes fi... ... those living models, dark, bushy bearded, wild of aspect and attire, whom artists convert into saints or as- sassins, according as their pictorial pu... ... the picture excited. “Everywhere we see oil-paint- ings, crayon sketches, cameos, engravings, lithographs, pre- tending to be Beatrice, and represent... ...that one obliterates another; as if Time had crossed and recrossed his own records till they grew illegible. But, not to meddle with history,—with whi...

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...ases, unless the person has happened to observe in pictures how it is that artists pro- duce these effects, he will be utterly unable to make the smal... ....” But this is wrong; for it is unreasonable to expect all men to be great artists, and born with the ge- nius of Mr. Williams. Now it will be remembe... ...at Catiline, Clodius, and some of that coterie, would have made first-rate artists; and it is on all accounts to be regretted, that the priggism of Ci... ...e differences and shades of merit as well as statues, pictures, oratorios, cameos, intaglios, or what not. You may be angry with the man for talking t... ...and a noon-day prosperity, both personal and public, that rang through the records of his people, and became a byeword amongst his posterity for a tho... ...; the angel of Meditation on the right hand, that must cleanse these lying records with fire, even as of old the drap- eries of asbestos were cleansed... ...ailty of human nature—reveals its deep-seated Pariah falsehood to it- self—records its abysmal treachery. Perhaps not one of us es- capes that dream; ...

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... at full gallop up the stairway of the orangery at Versailles. Writers and artists died in the hospi- tal, as a natural consequence of their eccentric... ... it is also the wealth of merchants. Time, time is gold, especially to you artists. I permit myself to say to you that architecture 64 Rise and Fall ... ...e bourgeois class, the con- stant butt of the witty shafts and ridicule of artists, and the object of their everlasting contempt, nodding his head as ... ...n profile of this charm- ing woman, whose beauty had all the delicacy of a cameo. Cesarine, dressed in white crape, wore a wreath of white roses, a ro... ...ye a shirt-frill of lace that had been an heirloom, fastened with a bluish cameo set as a pin; he wore short black-silk breeches which revealed the sk... ...lit night. On a table of immense size lay the budget, piles of the Chamber records, open volumes of the “Moniteur,” with passages carefully marked, to...

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...ts, women purely spiritual or purely material; just as there are soldiers, artists, artisans, mathematicians, poets, merchants, men who un- derstand m... ...s; few officials have not conceived the like; but among officials as among artists there are more mis- carriages than births; which is tantamount to B... ...; a million of reports were written every year; bureaucracy was enthroned! Records, statistics, documents, failing which France would have been ruined... ...y, he was much liked in the world of actors and actresses, journalists and artists. For one thing, they had the same vices and the same indo- lence as... ...stood out in relief against the yellow wood-work of the old cafe, like two cameo heads, cold and impassible, in the rigid attitude that their gravity ...

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...uld have found delight in tracing out, link by link, and authenticating by records and documentary evidences. It would have been as difficult, how- ev... ...y a hint of design or expression can glimmer through the dusk. Those early artists did well to paint their frescos. Glowing on the church-walls, they ... ...middle region of princes, cardinals, and ambassadors, and an upper tier of artists, just beneath the unattainable sky,—left her, worn out 91 Hawthorn... ...d abun- dant room. It leads its own life with a freer spirit, now that the artists and foreign visitors are scattered abroad. No bloom, perhaps, would... ...ut with gold or coral beads, a pair of heavy earrings, a curiously wrought cameo or mosaic brooch, and a silver comb or long stiletto among her glossy...

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...y himself, he might be regarded as the most aristocratic and fastidious of artists. But who meantime was the victim, to whose abode he was hurrying? F... ...tered. And the reason which governed him is strik- ing; because at once it records—that murder was not pur- 38 The Note Book of an English Opium-Eate... ...reation, for instance, does not belong to the earthly or merely historical records, but to the spiritual records of the Bible; to the same category, t... ... as not to know, that (except in the merely historical parts of the Jewish records) every section of time has a secret and separate acceptation in the... ...f an English Opium-Eater jured to decide aesthetically , between two rival cameos. Attila is said (though no doubt falsely) to have described himself ... ... terms of his contracts. At least I know of people now-a-days (much better artists) that would execute such contracts, and enter into any penalties fo... ...and Mont Blanc might be improved by a century of chiselling from judicious artists. Such are the works of blind elements, which (poor things!) cannot ...

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... at any other period of our history. “Every epoch which has left authentic records since the time of Charles the Great calls for at least one romance.... ...were learned naturalists, young doctors of medicine, political writers and artists, a number of ear- nest students full of promise. D’Arthez earned a ... ... of the flower to come; the girl of sixteen could only delight the eyes of artists who prefer the sketch to the picture. All the quick subtlety of her... ... a Parisian Spaniard appeared upon the scene, with her features cut like a cameo and her danger- ous eyes. “Where does she come from?” I asked in my t... ... Nucingen, Beaudenord, Philippe Bridau, Conti, the great musician, all the artists and speculators, all the men who seek for violent sensations as a r...

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...ve any record, a murderer and a vagabond, so we never fail to meet, in the records of all old families, with innumerable repeti- 7 Charles Dickens ti... ...diately dissolved!’ Down with it! Away with it! Don’t hear of it! Burn its records! Pull the room down! Blot it out of human memory! ‘But, my fellow-c... .... Sticking on the forehead of the other, by invisible means, was a massive cameo, in size and shape like the raspberry tart which is ordinarily sold f... ...d not half pretty enough; though, as hath been mentioned in its place, the artists always made those sketches beautiful, and he had drawn at least a s... ...d the existence of an individual wholly unpar- alleled in the biographical records of amiable persons, but must you now, even now, when he has made hi...

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...l, has no backward pages whereon, if you choose to turn them, you will find records such as might justly cause you either bitterness or shame. I await ... ...ill as a distinguishable vigorous enthusiasm in certain long haired German artists at Rome, and the youth of other nations who worked or idled near th... ... It is too one sided a life. I have been seeing a great deal of the German artists here: I travelled from Frankfort with one of them. Some are fine, ev... ...t be come to pay a farewell visit. When he entered she was looking at some cameos which she had been buying for Celia. She greeted Will as if his visi... ... as if his visit were quite a matter of course, and said at once, having a cameo bracelet in her hand— “I am so glad you are come. Perhaps you underst... ... in her hand— “I am so glad you are come. Perhaps you understand all about cameos, and can tell me if these are really good. I wished to have you with... ...e called them—by which he tested his public and deposited small monumental records of his march, were far from having been seen in all their significan...

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...has no back- ward pages whereon, if you choose to turn them, you will find records such as might justly cause you either bitterness or shame. I await ... ...ill as a distinguishable vigorous enthusiasm in certain long-haired German artists at Rome, and the youth of other nations who worked or idled near th... ... It is too one-sided a life. I have been seeing a great deal of the German artists here: I travelled from Frankfort with one of them. Some are fine, e... ... as if his visit were quite a matter of course, and said at once, having a cameo bracelet in her hand— “I am so glad you are come. Perhaps you underst... ... in her hand— “I am so glad you are come. Perhaps you understand all about cameos, and can tell me if these are really good. I wished to have you with... ...morrow, and we shall go away in three days. I have been uneasy about these cameos. Pray sit down and look at them.” “I am not particularly knowing, bu... ...e called them—by which he tested his public and deposited small monumental records of his march, were far from having been seen in all their signifi- ...

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...Yet this is precisely what France is doing. She does her utmost to produce artists by the artificial heat of competi- tive examination; but, the sculp... ... Decamps, an Auber, a David d’Angers, an Eugene Delacroix, or a Meissonier—artists who take but little heed of grande prix, and spring up in the open ... ... yet to play all instruments of music comes to them by nature. The two old artists were exceedingly popular at the the- atre, and took its ways philos... ... Holy Family, Domenichino’s Children Among the Flow- ers, Raphael’s little cameo, or his Portrait of an Old Man— Art’s greatest masterpieces. “Be quic... ...o the Ar- senal Library, looked out a grotesque case in some of Desplein’s records of extraordinary cures, and fitted the de- tails to Mme. Cibot, mod... .... And yet that miracle was a natural effect, such as medical science often records. A sick man, surrounded by those who love him, nursed by those who ...

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...ike her husband—stood up with the Austrian ambassador. Besides, the famous artists Baron Gros, David and Nicholas Poussin, and Canova, who was in town... ...old hands were deprived of some dozen of the rubies, emer- alds, and other cameos with which, since his elevation to for- tune, the poor fellow has th... ... the chief phy- sicians, the chief bankers, the chief statesmen, the chief artists and musicians, the chief everything, under the Moorish kings. Thus ... ...ght to a conclusion our history of the great French Revolution of 1884. It records the actions of great and various characters; the deeds of various v... ...ian trumpeters, and the famous Bohemian Minnesingers; with all the leading artists of London, Paris, the Continent, and the rest of Europe. I leave yo...