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...ce made by an author so profoundly versed in the different branches of his art. By fixing, then, the date of my story Sixty Years before the present 1... ...ves, and low pocket-holes? The same may be urged, with equal truth, of the Gothic hall, which, with its darkened and tinted windows, its elevated and ... ...nity of acquiring habits of firm and assiduous application, of gaining the art of controlling, directing, and concentrating the powers of his mind for... ..., and concentrating the powers of his mind for ear- nest investigation,—an art far more essential than even that intimate acquaintance with classical ... ...flamed and increased its violence. The library at Waverley-Honour, a large Gothic room, with double arches and a gallery , contained such a mis- 21 S... ...n aim at him with the crossbow. In one spot, distinguished by a moss-grown Gothic monument, which retained the name of Queen’s Standing, Elizabeth her... ... very same time. Miss Stubbs had indeed summoned up every assistance which art could afford to beauty; but, alas! hoop, patches, frizzled locks, and a... ... each frequent angle a small turret, rather resembling a pepper-box than a Gothic watch-tower. Neither did the front indicate absolute security from d... ...aken under her special protection. A projecting turret gave access to this Gothic balcony, which commanded a most beau- tiful prospect. The formal gar...

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...Sevres biscuit. I am going to tone that down; I know all the secrets of my art. And where will you allow us to send it to you? Your address?” “My addr... ...y fortune again.” “Perhaps he will help you. And what else?” “He says thou art very clever.” “It is very possible. You believe it yourself, my father?... ...bought the first pic- ture of his life, and now he was already thinking of art- patronage as a fascinating pursuit. His reflections quick- ened his go... ...a. I want the biggest kind of entertainment a man can get. People, places, art, nature, everything! I want to see the tallest mountains, and the blues... ...d not a real genius for the matter, or she would have pursued the charming art for itself. The poor lady was very incomplete. She fell back upon the h... ...f American civilization; but he was also greatly struck with the beautiful Gothic tower of the Hotel de Ville, and wondered whether it would not be po...

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...ladies of distinction—especially those of Palestine, and it was a trial of art to throw these into the greatest possible varieties of convolution, and... ...ally so, ample scope would, in that case, have been obtained for inventive art: variations without end might then have been devised on the fashion or ... ... such are still to be seen upon the monuments of Egyptian and Persepolitan art, was fastened round the head by a ribbon or 60 Theological Essays and ... ...pose, and from the richness of the setting—to say nothing of the exquisite art which the ancient lapidaries displayed in cutting them. The stones chie... ...stimulation to vanity in the love of change from an inventive condition of art and manufacturing skill, and where the system and interests of the gove... ...ge, under the blessing of Heaven, is pretty nearly a tabula rasa.’ In this Gothic expres- sion of self-congratulation upon the extent of his own igno-... ...ar- mony are essential conditions to their effect. Ruins are be- coming to Gothic buildings—decay is there seen in a grace- ful form; but to an Attic ...

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...f poetry as Aristotle, and nearly as eloquent an expounder of the rules of art and the glories of genius as Longinus. In the same year, Pope printed “... ...his fine epistle to Jervas, the painter. Pope was passionately fond of the art of painting, and practised it a good deal under Jervas’s instructions, ... ... more complete pieces. They constantly applied themselves not only to that art, but to that single branch of an art, to which their talent was most po... ...t we ought to judge of pastorals. And since the instructions given for any art are to be deliv- ered as that art is in perfection, they must of necess... ...lexander Pope – V olume One The hills and rocks attend my doleful lay; Why art thou prouder and more hard than they? The bleating sheep with my compla... ... obelisks were placed, And the learn’d walls with hieroglyphics graced. Of Gothic structure was the northern side, O’erwrought with ornaments of barba...

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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... ...sunshine, passionate as the tornado. Their lives were rendered blissful by art unsought harmony with nature. But, as centuries passed away, the Faun’s... ... hill with its ca- thedral, its many churches, and public edifices, all of Gothic architecture. With no more level ground than a single piazza in the ... ...kneeling before an altar. Whenever they found a cathedral, therefore, or a Gothic church, the two travellers were of one mind to enter it. In some of ... ... In the shadow of the ca- 80 The Marble Faun V ol 2 thedral and other old Gothic structures—seeking shelter from the sunshine that fell across the re... ... windows, running along its front; and by way of entrance it had a central Gothic arch, elaborately wreathed around with sculptured semicircles, withi... ...uare rose the mediaeval front of the cathedral, where the imagination of a Gothic architect had long ago flowered out indestructibly, in the first pla...

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...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... ...I am theirs again to morrow! Ariosto’s house, T asso’s prison, a rare old Gothic cathedral, and more churches of course, are the sights of Ferrara. B... ... Past plots of garden, theatres, shrines, prodigious piles of architecture—Gothic— Saracenic—fanciful with all the fancies of all times and coun trie... ...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... ...ory of the dilapidated Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie, is the work of art, perhaps, better known than any other in the world: the Last Supper, by... ...he highway road to Paris. Or how Strasbourg itself, in its magnificent old Gothic Cathedral, and its ancient houses with their peaked roofs and gables... ...h is a large square, with a great broken nosed fountain in it: some quaint Gothic houses: and a high square brick tower; outside the top of which—a c... ... on its market day, with radiant colours. They set off its sombre but rich Gothic buildings admirably. The pavement of its market place is strewn with...

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... The front-door was like a church porch, and the drawing-room windows were gothic. Mrs. Carey , knowing by what train they were coming, waited in the ... ... room was in a part of the old abbey which had been restored, and it had a gothic window: Philip tried to cheat his boredom by drawing this over and o... ...reatment of Harriet; he 129 W. Somerset Maugham dabbled in the history of art (on the walls of his rooms were reproductions of pictures by G. F. Watt... ...phesied his future eminence. In course of time he became an au- thority on art and literature. He came under the influence of Newman’s Apologia; the p... ...t was grotesque and ridiculous; so he withdrew his mind and thought of the gothic beauty of the Chapel at King’s. But he had spent some delightful day... ...tell her. ” “Will you promise?” When he had done this, she told him how an art-student who had a room on the floor above her—but she interrupted herse... ... the floor above her—but she interrupted herself. “Why don’t you go in for art? Y ou paint so pret- tily . ” “Not well enough for that.” “That is for ... ...ciously , and he remembered how even as a boy he had taken pleasure in the Gothic cathedral as one saw it from the precincts; he went there and looked... ...k on a miniature rock; and on each side mugs, `A present from Southend’ in Gothic letters, with pictures of a pier and a parade on them. ‘Erb was some...

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...mate conclusion is reached. To say that the story is complete as a work of art, would be quite an other matter. It lacks balance and proportion. Some... ...ger, pitiless struggle of life; in the place the Doctor spoke of, a noble, Gothic, mossy structure, there were none but aged men, who had drifted into... ...e old house. As fast as any part decayed, it was renewed, with such simple art that the new completed, as it were, and fit ted itself to the old. So ... ...this boy to be instructed. I have made some attempts myself; but having no art of instructing, no skill, no temper I suppose, I make but an indifferen... ...re’s strange mix ture of races. Elsie seemed not only to have caught this art in its original spirit, but to have improved upon it, creating strange,... ...ords, heraldic animals; some story, very likely, told, almost revelling in Gothic sculpture of wood, like what we have seen on the marble sarcophagus ... ...fe assenting, he was ushered into a spacious apartment, lighted by various Gothic win dows, surrounded with old oaken cases, in which were ranged vol... ...ican friend here a lecture on gargoyles, and other peculiarities of sacred Gothic architecture; and if you will honor me with your attention, I should... ...verhung with the dark, 161 Hawthorne intricate oaken beams, with the high Gothic windows, through one of which the setting sunbeams streamed, and sho...

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...mantic and historic sites, such as the land of Italy abounds in, offer the art- ist a questionable aid to concentration when they them- selves are not... ...me such apology for a motive. These are the fascinations of the fabulist’s art, these lurking forces of expansion, these necessities of upspringing in... ...xion than that of the perfect dependence of the “moral” sense of a work of art on the amount of felt life concerned in producing it. The question come... ...ee. The artist may of course, in wanton moods, dream of some Paradise (for art) where the direct appeal to the intelligence might be legalised; for to... ...en don’t know how to write them, but my mother has thoroughly mastered the art of condensation. ‘Tired America, hot weather awful, return England with... ...he finest work of art—than a Greek bas-relief, than a great Titian, than a Gothic cathedral. It’s very pleasant to be so well treated where one had le...

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...ected. But we must remember that she is but nineteen as yet, unused to the art of deceiving, poor innocent creature! and making her 20 V anity Fair o... ...ermons at Crawley parish church, directed point-blank at the Baronet’s old Gothic pew there. Honest Sir Pitt, however, did not feel the force of these... ...g; perhaps he is attending the couch of a wounded comrade, or studying the art of war up in his own desolate cham- ber. And her kind thoughts sped awa... ...Crawley, who left her little protege, blessing and admiring her as a dear, art- less, tender-hearted, affectionate, incomprehensible creature. And now... ...anner, turned away his head. “Shall we say twenty guineas for this work of art?—fifteen, five, name your own price. The gentleman without the elephant... ..., Mr. Moss,” Mr. Hammerdown said; “let the company examine it as a work of art—the attitude of the gallant animal quite according to 164 V anity Fair...

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...ily might, in Paris, and in a charming old gar- den attached to a house of art, and on a Sunday after- noon of summer, many persons of great interest ... ...terest of that admirable mixture for salutary application which we know as art. Art deals with what we see, it must first contribute full-handed that ... ...al- lure; there, above all, because the Story is just the spoiled child of art, and because, as we are always disappointed when the pampered don’t “pl... ...as many calls on ingenuity and on the higher branches of the compositional art as one could possibly desire. Again and yet again, as, from book to boo... ...mask, the most unmitigated and abandoned of ficelles. Half the dramatist’s art, as we well know—since if we don’t it’s not the fault of the proofs tha... ...gold alone. He looked, doubtless, while he played his eternal nippers over Gothic glooms, sufficiently rapt in rever- ence; but what his thought had f...

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...he light; a bronze clock represented Love crowning Psyche; and a carpet of Gothic design on a red ground set off the other accessories of this delight... ...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... ...ith the barom- eter and the strictly decent statue that ornamented a large Gothic stove, that he had not the barbarous courage to over- throw such dee... ...? 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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... with some old cathedral, which could not 20 Stray Pearls but be admired, Gothic though it were, and continued in the market-place, where the piles o... ...Ah! but what will thine aunt think of me?’ ‘Let her think,’ he said. ‘Thou art mine, not Madame’s.’ I know not whether those words made me less red, b... ...er in England, Madame? Come, my god-daughter, you at least have learnt the art of commanding your looks.’ Poor Annora must have had a sad time of it w... ...master, but Eustace put him down at once. ‘Thou mayst be Marquis, but thou art not master of this house, nor of thyself. Thou art not even a gentleman... ... them for being so unmanly?’ cried Annora, as she heard this. ‘Child, thou art foolish!’ said my mother with dignity. ‘Why should the resistance of ca... ...had acquired the air of society, my mother had taught her something of the art of dress, and though nothing would ever make her beautiful in feature, ...

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...her in tolerably close companionship. I could almost grudge that beautiful Gothic church to those regular red-brick uniform rows of defor- mity.’ ‘I d... ...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... ...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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... Language with Feelings Pg 1143 The Idea of Civilized Equality Pg 1191 The Art of Giving Pg 1195 Giving Pg 1209 Judgment and Measurement Pg 1... ...nder the 3- dimensional world we see onto a 2-dimensional surface as abstract art. This The Path of Splitness Chapter One: The Universe 91 co... ... One: The Universe 91 concept of Actual infinity has been used in abstract art on a practical basis for hundreds of years. It is one reason why ... ...f their time. Because when they used the concept of Actual Infinity in their art, it expanded their perceptual awareness. Stretching your vision: ... ...ol-use. But humans are creative. We do not just destroy. But w-what about art? We, er, we… uh…. Look at Michelangelo. Smashing away at a sing... ...lternative The Evil of the Undead Bram Stoker… who stoked the fires of gothic horror… cramming it into English literature… as a new elite cra... ...them. You have no idea of what these undead scum are capable of. All the gothic horror stories seen in movies, all gothic romances and ghost st...

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...y stain Of Moor or Hebrew blood, he traced his source Through the most Gothic gentlemen of Spain; A better cavalier ne’er mounted horse, O... ...ave served him for the prompter’s copy; For her Feinagle’s were an useless art, And he himself obliged to shut up shop — he Could never make a... ... a doubt; but ne’er magician’s wand Wrought change with all Armida’s fairy art Like what this light touch left on Juan’s heart. And if she met h... ...curity entwine, Here is the empire of thy perfect bliss, And here thou art a god indeed divine.’ The bard I quote from does not sing amiss, ... ...n her cheek, and yet she felt no wrong. Oh Love! how perfect is thy mystic art, Strengthening the weak, and trampling on the strong, How self ... ...en, and the like, Until he reach’d the castellated Rhine:— Ye glorious Gothic scenes! how much ye strike All phantasies, not even excepting ... ... In pedigrees, by those who wander still Along the last fields of that Gothic ground) Was high born, wealthy by her father’s will, And bea... ...e the rest of their compeers, The peerage, to a mansion very fine; The Gothic Babel of a thousand years. None than themselves could boast a lo... ... monastery once, and now Still older mansion; of a rich and rare Mix’d Gothic, such as artists all allow Few specimens yet left us can compare...

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...h the matter, and advancing towards the stranger, said, ‘Good fellow, thou art none of our following. How, now!’ for a pair of gray eyes looked up wit... ...hoice, laddie,’ he said, not unkindly; ‘best make up your mind while thou art still in thine own coun- try, and can win back home. In England and Fra... ... The hall itself was vast, and newly finished in the rich culmina- tion of Gothic work, with a fan tracery-vaulted roof, a triumph of architecture, ea... ...pe covering the two whole opposite pages were represented in the admirable art and pure colouring of the early Cinquecento. Eleanor and Annis were ent...

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...he fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art. There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet... ...tained that dressing has in this or any country risen to the dignity of an art. At present men make shift to wear what they can get. Like shipwrecked ... ... world a family mansion, and for the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man’s struggle to free himself from this conditio... ... man’s struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to b... ...forgot ten. There is actually no place in this village for a work of fine art, if any had come down to us, to stand, for our lives, our houses and st... ...er fine furniture, or delicate cook ery, or a house in the Grecian or the Gothic style just yet. If there are any to whom it is no interruption to ac...

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...as a crayon head of Minerva in gold frame, underneath which was written in Gothic let- ters “T o dear Papa.” First they spoke of the patient, then of ... ...ive ones, a tear on their cheeks, were kissing doves through the bars of a Gothic cage, or, smiling, their heads on one side, were plucking the leaves... ...these works, not touching the heart, miss, it seems to me, the true end of art. It is so sweet, amid all the disenchantments of life, to be able to dw... ... knew also all the latest inventions in economic stoves, together with the art of preserving cheese and of curing sick wines. At eight o’clock Justin ... ...rself such sacrifices could well allow herself certain whims. She bought a Gothic prie-dieu, and in a month spent fourteen francs on lemons for polish... ...n eccentric existence, of the perturbations of sentiment, the tyrannies of art, and always a *Upon my word! 120 Madame Bovary certain contempt for so... ...che! and he is even completely desti- tute of what is called the genius of art.” Rodolphe, meanwhile, with Madame Bovary , had gone up to the first fl... ...e immaculate atmosphere in which she longed to live. When she knelt on her Gothic prie-Dieu, she addressed to the Lord the same suave words that she h... ...n in a lump the most important of the fine arts seems to me a stupidity, a Gothic idea, worthy of the abominable times that imprisoned Galileo.” “I kn...

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...cenery is given by nature; but the prettiness of home scenery is a work of art. It comes from the thorough draining of land, from the planting and sub... ... badly mouthed, and that which my wife rode was altogether ignorant of the art of walking. We hired them from an Englishman who had established himsel... ...r of good quality. According to him, riding has not yet become an American art, and hence the awkwardness of American horses. “Lord bless you, sir! th... ...d it beyond the beauty of its situation. Its public buildings and works of art do not deserve a long narrative. It stands at the confluence of the St.... ... these gentlemen; but I take upon myself to say that, as regards purity of art and manliness of conception, their joint work is en- titled to the very... ...inly fail in my attempt to make any reader understand me. I know no modern Gothic purer of its kind or less sullied with ficti- 80 North America V ol... ...is too minute; and, moreover, it may be ques- tioned whether perpendicular Gothic is capable of the high- est nobility which architecture can achieve.... ... still administered. But the University is the glory of Toronto. This is a Gothic building, and will take rank after, but next to, the buildings at Ot...

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...his ‘ere’ll not do. What about these props?’ An’ I says to him, ‘Why, what art talkin’ about? What d’st mean about th’ props?’ ‘It’ll never do, this ‘... ... then yo’ ‘ear ‘im sneeze. 72 Sons & Lovers “‘Ello, Taff,’ you say, ‘what art sneezin’ for? Bin ta’ein’ some snuff?’ “An’ ‘e sneezes again. Then he s... ...f the stairs and said to his wife: “This childt’s axin’ for thee; how long art goin’ to be?” “Until I’ve finished, good gracious! Tell him to go to sl... ...nter- est the Leivers more than they interested his mother. It was not his art Mrs. Morel cared about; it was himself and his achievement. But Mrs. Le... ...onditions of work were better. He had Wednesday afternoon off to go to the Art School—Miss Jordan’s provision—returning in the evening. Then the facto... ...body knows where; in contradiction to the perpendicu- lar lines and to the Gothic arch, which, he said, leapt up at heaven and touched the ecstasy and... ...sy and lost itself in the divine. Himself, he said, was Norman, Miriam was Gothic. She bowed in consent even to that. One evening he and she went up t...

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...tatue with a money box at its el bow, in an ecclesiastical niche of early Gothic architecture, took the money. Miss Josephine Sleary, as some very lo... ... and said, ‘Louisa, never wonder!’ Herein lay the spring of the mechanical art and mystery of educating the reason without stooping to the cultivation... ...hich he laboured. Never fear, good people of an anxious turn of mind, that Art will consign Nature to oblivion. Set anywhere, side by side, the work o... ... you cast the first stone at her!” There have been plenty to do that. Thou art not the man to cast the last stone, Stephen, when she is brought so low... ...und last night. I can wake many nights, when I am put to it. ’Tis thou who art in need of rest—so white and tired. Try to sleep in the chair there, wh... ...r, on the poor mean stairs, and put an end of her shawl to his lips. ‘Thou art an Angel. Bless thee, bless thee!’ ‘I am, as I have told thee, Stephen,... ... The flag with the inscription Sleary ’s Horse Riding was there; and the Gothic niche was there; but Mr. Sleary was not there. Master Kidderminster,...

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... of the other. Mrs. Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her cleanli- ness more uncomfortable and unacceptable than di... ...who was in an excessive white-per- spiration, as if he had been trying his art on himself. In a back room, a high-shouldered man with a face-ache tied... ...mended it, I think it was the smallest house I ever saw; with the queerest gothic windows (by far the greater part of them sham), and a gothic door, a... ...cleaning my boots. After that, he fell to gardening, and I saw him from my gothic window pretending to em- ploy the Aged, and nodding at him in a most...

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...unfamiliar Church of England service. The Lord’s Prayer “Our Father, which art”—set the seal on that desolation. Sophie found herself thinking how in ... ...ted certain young bees to educate certain new-born bees in the almost lost art of mak- ing Royal Jelly. How the nectar for it was won out of hours in ... ... want the firmament to yourself? PICCIOLA—Both Poles have been overdone in Art and Lit- erature. Leave them to Science for the next twenty years. You ... ...ith the Stone Eyes have left me an ox, a slave, or a woman.’ I said: ‘Thou art then That One?’ The Hajji said: ‘I am ten thousand rupees reward into t... ...rom the road by a low, brick-pillared, flint wall, topped with a cast-iron Gothic rail, picked out in blue and gold. Tight beds of geranium, calceolar... ...uldn’t I give to have here” (he mentioned a name not unhonoured in British Art). “Am- bition plucking apples of Sodom!” (the monkey had pricked himsel...

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...able Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in every direction, so that not the smallest cranny or dog-hole in Nature or Art can remain unilluminated,--it might strike the reflective mind with some surprise that hitherto little or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of...

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...in every direction, so that not the smallest cranny or dog hole in Nature or Art can remain unilluminated,— it might strike the reflective mind with so... ...imbs,—will depend on the nature of such Architectural Idea: whether Grecian, Gothic, Later Gothic, or altogether Modern, and Parisian or Anglo Dandiac... ... and Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of Printing. The first ground handful of Nitre, Sulphur, and Charcoal ... ... walking, has a grateful effect. Observe too how fond they are of peaks, and Gothic arch intersections. The male world wears peaked caps, an ell long,... ...create protuberance enough. Thus do the two sexes vie with each other in the art of Decoration; and as usual the stronger carries it.” Our Professor, ... ...been?—Nature is good, but she is not the best: here truly was the victory of Art over Nature. A thunderbolt indeed might have pierced thee; all short ... ...cal and Biographical duty, grudge to reimpart) in curably infect therewith! Art thou the malignest of Sansculottists, or only the maddest? “It will r...

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...sident Stair; and the lampoon, which is written with much more malice than art, bears the following motto: Stair’s neck, mind, wife, songs, grandson, ... ...mstance introduced and managed with great and suc- cessful, though daring, art. The nag being represented in a rampant or rearing posture, the tail, w... ...eps by which Dick Tinto improved his touch, and corrected, by the rules of art, the luxuriance of a fervid imagination. The scales fell from his eyes ... ...he best parlour, it was evident that Dick had found some mode of bartering art for the necessaries of life. Nothing, however, is more precarious than ... ... of the Scottish Parliament and Privy Coun- cil, at other times in the old Gothic castle of Ravenswood, to which the Lord Keeper had made large additi... ...key. As the crowd left the chapel, he paused on the steps which led to its Gothic chancel. “Gentlemen and friends,” he said, “you have this day done n... ... about to take, ere yet they became inevitable. In passing through a large Gothic ante-room, Sir William Ashton heard the sound of his daughter’s lute... ...ed and decorated 54 Bride of Lammermoor with architectural ornaments of a Gothic character. But now the vault which had covered it being broken down ... ...ut now the vault which had covered it being broken down and riven, and the Gothic font ruined and demolished, the stream burst forth from the recess o...

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...he See of Rome with that blind obedience which, ever since the days of the Gothic dynasty, had been the peculiar char- acteristic of the Spaniard. The... ... protection. Continue to prove your- selves the worthy successors of those Gothic heroes, whose bravery humbled to the dust the pride of ancient Rome.... ...ropose that the King of Hungary should remain with the army, and learn the art of war under Wallenstein. But the very mention of his name threatened t... ...s, now at- tempted impossibilities, and resolved to storm a position which art and nature had combined to render impregnable. Intrusting his own camp ... ... with superhu- man strength; no one can conquer, no one will give way. The art of war seemed to exhaust its 308 The History of the Thirty Y ears’ War... ...irt, as he had leaped out of bed, and leaning on a table near the window. “Art thou the villain,” cried Deveroux to him, “who intends to deliver up th... ...d by a train of victories showed himself worthy of his great master in the art of war. He was fertile in expedients, which he planned with secrecy, an...

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... author by race, history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- t... ... traits where I saw nothing but artistic evil; and by the principle of the art, those should have written of the man, and not I. Where you see no good... ...ius who preceded him, and whom he de- lighted to honour as a master in the art – I mean Henry Fielding – we shall be somewhat puzzled, at the first mo... ...s developed in great measure by means of things that remain outside of the art; by means of real things, that is, and not artistic conventions for thi... ...desired has been ac- complished, and we carry away with us a sense of the “Gothic profile” of the city, of the “surprising forest of pinnacles and tow... ...th astonishing consis- tency and strength. And then, Hugo has peopled this Gothic city, and, above all, this Gothic church, with a race of men even mo... ...nd, above all, this Gothic church, with a race of men even more distinctly Gothic than their surroundings. We know this generation already: we have se... ...ess, with passionate contortion and horror, that is so char- acteristic of Gothic art. Esmeralda is somewhat an excep- tion; she and the goat traverse... ...do but an animated gargoyle? What is the whole book but the reanimation of Gothic art? It is curious that in this, the earliest of the five great ro- ...