Full Text Search Details
...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... ...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... ...ld be of happy influ- 228 The Marble Fawn ence to place a comfortable and shady seat beneath every wayside shrine. Then the weary and sun-scorched tr... ..., they still seemed to dread a pestilence in the sunshine, and kept on the shady side of the piazzas, as scrupulously as in summer. Through the open d...

Full Text Search Details
...stance above the college, and affords, along its wood- fringed banks, many shady retreats, where even study is pleas- ant, and idleness delicious. The... ...ness, it would achieve what pencil (the pencils, at least, of the colonial artists who attempted it) never could; for, though the dark eyes might be p... ... saw, between the vacan- cies of the trees, the angler advancing along the shady av- enue that led to the principal entrance of Dr. Melmoth’s dwelling... ... if she had herself been a part of the rock. In other circum- stances this shady recess would have been a delightful retreat during the sultry warmth ... ... on mountain-tops or in deep solitudes has not felt the influence of these records of humanity, telling him, when such a conviction is soothing to his...

Full Text Search Details
...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... ...he idea), that it would be of happy influ- ence to place a comfortable and shady seat beneath every wayside shrine. Then the weary and sun-scorched tr... ...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... ..., they still seemed to dread a pestilence in the sunshine, and kept on the shady side of the piazzas, as scrupulously as in summer. Through the open d...

Full Text Search Details
...signed this splendid residence has been claimed for several of the Italian artists who early in the sixteenth century came to seek patronage in France... ...y have led, and my imagination, I am afraid, is only feebly kindled by the records of the luxurious pastimes organized on the banks of the Cher by the... ...esting cathedral of the eighteenth century on one side, and on the other a shady walk, which forms part of an old ram- part. I followed this walk for ... ...ns and sundry red-legged soldiers, and, beyond the fortifications, another shady walk,—a mail, as the French say, as well as a champ de manoeuvre,—on ... ... of them distinguished, we may suppose that it was less the model than the artists to whom M. Bruyas wished to give publicity. Easily first 126 A Lit... ...r afternoons, when one might stretch one’s self on the warm ground in some shady hollow, and listen to the hum of bees and the whistle of melancholy s...

Full Text Search Details
...d to have to do with so worthy and liberal a steward. For many, many years—records hardly tell how many, probably from the time when Hiram’s wishes ha... ...and young-lady-nature espe- cially. As she walked off from him beneath the shady elms of the close, her look, her tone, every motion and gesture of he... ...ng them; his easy days, his absence of all kind of hard work, his pleasant shady home, those twelve old neighbours whose welfare till now had been the... ...nce of work had been the crime which brought on him his tribu- lation; his shady home was pleasant no longer; maybe it was no longer his; the old neig... ... lady looking intently at a lily as no lady ever looked before. Our modern artists, whom we style Pre-Raphaelites, have delighted to go back, not only...

Full Text Search Details
...on of Madame de Montcornet than elsewhere. She receives, as you know, many artists and men 108 The Deputy of Arcis of letters, and to give you an ide... ...“He? he will talk to you by the hour of returning to the life of the great artists of the middle ages with the universality of their studies and their... ... lake, with an island upon it which Louise dearly loved. To that island, a shady calm retreat, Marie-Gaston wished to remove the body of his wife, aft... ...e claw of a cat preparing to play with its mouse, so I answered, coldly:— “Artists, I am told, are often indiscreet in their curiosity.” I put a well-... ... the tool of those associations of false coiners who are known in criminal records to concoct schemes as complicated and mysterious as the one I am no... ...arge profit. His aunt, Jacqueline Collin, who lives with him, still does a shady busi- ness secretly, which of course brings in large fees, and I have... ...les, “‘ei- 291 Balzac ther by writings made or intercalated in the public records or other documents, shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor... ...f an agency that was fairly avowable, she sheltered practices more or less shady, on which she continued to be- stow an intelligence and an activity t...

Full Text Search Details
...y collection of clocks, purporting to be the work of Parisian and Genevese artists—chiefly bilious faced clocks, supported on sickly white crutches, w... ... English children, with gov ernesses reading novels as they walk down the shady lanes of trees, or nursemaids interchanging gossip on the seats; Fren... ...,) it fills my soul with terror at the British Institution, it lures young artists on to their destruction. Go where I will, the Ghost of Art, eternal... ...; the green sea slime and weed upon the rough stones at the entrance, seem records of obsolete high tides never more to flow; the flagstaff halyards d... ...eously—and goes below. The re maining Mystery then smiles upon the sister artists (who, I am afraid, wouldn’t greatly mind stabbing each other), and ... ...r the Seine, among a forest of scrubby trees— the hoar frost lying cold in shady places, and glittering in the light—and here we are—at Poissy! Out le...

Full Text Search Details
...because the amateurs had so much insisted on his merit as the su- preme of artists for grandeur of design and breadth of style; and because, apart fro... ..., subsequently amongst those of Cuzco, in South America; 3dly, amongst the records of some royal courts in Madrid; 4thly, by collat- eral proof from t... ... that, in trav- elling from Genoa and Florence to Rome, she sat to various artists, in order to meet the interest about herself already rising amongst... ...self, of something which in- terested him more profoundly than all earthly records of horsemanship, or any conceivable questions connected with books.... ...egarded their forms and the correspondences of their parts; and usually by artists her face was said to be Grecian. Perhaps the nostrils, mouth, and f... ...ry, reaching Herodotus through such *“About me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by th... ...uch as that Lon- don fair of St. Bartholomew in years long past, or by the records of battles and skirmishes through the monotonous pages of history, ...

Full Text Search Details
...d. “I may be treading on dangerous ground; but what I feel about poets and artists in general is this: on your own lines, you can’t be beaten—granted;... ...s; we may be clumsy, but we do our best to get a grasp of things. Now your artists find things in a mess, shrug their shoulders, turn aside to their v... ...alloway, who, while her hus- band spoke, had been thinking. “When I’m with artists I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little... ... “I grant that the English seem, on the whole, whiter than most men, their records cleaner. But, good Lord, don’t run away with the idea that I don’t ... ...udience of four or five somnolent merchants. By degrees white figures with shady hats came in at the door, admitting a wedge of the hot summer day, an... ...tream 119 Virginia Woolf which had been chosen as meeting-place. It was a shady spot, lying conveniently just where the hill sprung out from the flat... ...kneeling by the stream lapping water out of her palms. As they entered the shady place, Helen looked up and then held out her hand. “I must introduce ...

Full Text Search Details
... important an ingredient in the analysis of his his- tory, as the facts he records. Probability is a powerful and troublesome test; and it is by this ... ... There, from the fields where wild Mæander flows, High Mycale, and Latmos’ shady brows, And proud Miletus, came the Carian throngs, With mingled clamo... ...k, the embattled squadrons stood, With spears erect, a moving iron wood: A shady light was shot from glimmering shields, And their brown arms obscured... ...remble on the spires. A thousand piles the dusky horrors gild, And shoot a shady lustre o’er the field. Full fifty guards each flaming pile attend, 1... ...ull six measures held, By none in weight or workmanship excell’d: Sidonian artists taught the frame to shine, Elaborate, with artifice divine; Whence ... ...ow’d Among his spoils this memorable load. For this, he bids those nervous artists vie, 429 Pope That teach the disk to sound along the sky. “Let him...

Full Text Search Details
...But I did not care, for I had come out for a pedestrian tour anyway. CHAPTER XIV Rafting Down the Neckar WHEN THE LANDLORD LEARNED that I and my agent... ...k out of Heilbronn, but called up Go”tz von Berlichingen’s horse and cab and made us ride. I made a sketch of the turnout. It is not a Work, it is onl... ...longer. I judge so from the fact that hundreds of old gravestones have been removed from the graves and placed against the inner walls of the cemetery... ...legraph-poles are in other lands. We followed the carriage-road, and had our usual luck; we traveled under a beating sun, and always saw the shade lea... ... leave the shady places before we could get to them. In all our wanderings we seldom managed to strike a piece of road at Mark Twain 110 its time for... ...ere all marked, and if a man wished to find the skulls of his ancestors for several generations back, he could do it by these marks, preserved in the ... ...of this same “Dr. K.” In one place was a picture of Dr. K. hanging on a gallows. Here and there, lonesome prisoners had eased the heavy time by alteri...

Full Text Search Details
...a duke at all, and could find it out if he would only examine the herald’s records. Y.M. But anyway, he is obliged to do a duke’s part; he puts his ha... ...ith its green fruit hanging down. When I think of the Commonwealth I see a shady little group of these small saplings which we called the oak parlor; ... ... English, and that answered very well. English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolutions—we shoveled them... ...lable—ed. ) There you see him lost in meditation over the monu ment which records the amazing figures of the battle of Agincourt. French history says... ...reputation on the spot as an orator, and his name, later, in the society’s records, of the “Martyr Ora tor.” He went to his death breathing slaughte... ...ock for the chief roles, and one of these is composed of the most renowned artists in the world, with Materna and Alvary in the lead. I suppose a doub...

Full Text Search Details
...t anything you do,’ he answered. ‘I’ll be an artist, and I’ll do things.’ ‘Artists always want money, don’t they?’ ‘I’ve got a hundred and twenty poun... ... wish I had; but I forgathered with some men of sorts. They said they were artists, and I knew some of them could draw,—but they wouldn’t draw. They g... ...ry to im- prove your soul, you always drag in some anecdote from your very shady past. Pigs aren’t the British public; and self-respect is self-respec... ...ling From the beginning he told the tale, the I—I—I’s flashing through the records as telegraph-poles fly past the traveller. Maisie listened and nodd... ...at they call an artist by profes- 117 Rudyard Kipling sion. You know what artists do?’ ‘They draw the things in red and black ink on the pop-shop lab...

Full Text Search Details
...e colonial politi- cian type and tame labour representatives, balance with shady new adventurer millionaires, get in still shadier stuff from abroad, ... ...o crystallize. Before I came along she’d mixed chiefly with a lot of young artists and students, all doing nothing at all except talk about the things... ...had their tools of wood, their homes of wood, their gods and perhaps their records of wood. “A peat bog here, even a few feet of clay, might have pick... ...ctive, interesting men, rising politicians, university men of distinction, artists and writers even, men of science, men—there are still such men— act...

Full Text Search Details
...of the palmetto, are scattered irregularly along these valleys beneath the shady branches of the cocoanut trees. Nothing can exceed the imposing scene... ...ng a cordial welcome wherever I went; or from grove to grove, and from one shady place to another, in company with Kory- Kory and Fayaway, and a rabbl... ...ain in their calabashes, and store it away beneath heaps of leaves in some shady nook near the house. Old Marheyo had a great love for the waters of t... ...es in his own land. Fanning, a Yankee mariner of some reputation, likewise records his lively impressions of the physi- cal appearance of these people... ...f a song tattooed upon his chest, and a variety of spirited cuts by native artists in other parts of his body. He sported a fishing rod in his hand, a...

Full Text Search Details
... slope, and emphasised by little white threads of unthawed snow upon their shady sides, were shapes like sticks, dry twisted sticks of the same rusty ... ...ons of our recording instru- ments his communication comes and goes in our records in an extremely fitful manner; it becomes blurred; it “fades out” i... ...in work which have distinguished the career of man. There are no books, no records of any sort, no libraries or inscriptions. All knowledge is stored ... ..., were thinkers and some officials; some hunted, some were mechanics, some artists, some toilers. ‘But all rule,’ I said. “‘And have they not differen...

Full Text Search Details
...s country’s welfare and advancement, these, with 84 One of Our Conquerors records, items, anticipations, of the manlier sports to deco- rate, were hi... ...red portable; thus we pass into the conceptions of our fel- lows, into the records, down to posterity. Anecdotes of England’s happiest man were relate... ...y pouts and frowns dimpled like the brush of the wind on a sunny pool in a shady place; and her forehead was close below his chin, her lips not far. H... ... she come from?—wears her hat on her brows!—huge gaunt- lets out of style!—shady! shady! shady!’ And as always dur- ing her nervous tumults, the name ... ... to female char- acter. That likewise may be the hypocrite’s mask. Popular artists, intent to gratify the national taste for ef- fects called realisti...

Full Text Search Details
...and at the whole process of preparing tea in China, as depicted by Chinese artists. In my room there were oval engravings of the months—ladies haymaki... ...arelessly disposed, and his neckkerchief loose and flowing, as I have seen artists paint their own portraits) which I could not separate from the idea... ...plate some mental pictures of fine weather on occasions, and may be better artists at them than the grooms. The old roan, so famous for cross country ... ...orn. “Nothing but a mine below it on a busy day in term time, with all its records, rules, and precedents collected in it and every func tionary belo... ... pursues his lawful calling. In the shade of Cook’s Court, at most times a shady place, Mr. Snagsby has dealt in all sorts of blank forms of legal pro... ...nce over the church, which smelt as earthy as a grave, and to think what a shady, an cient, solemn little church it was. The windows, heavily shaded ... ...I am truly cosmopolitan. I have the deepest sympathy with them. I lie in a shady place like this and think of adventurous spirits going to the North P...

Full Text Search Details
...uarded by a courtyard on a street and protected from public curiosity by a shady garden at the back. By levelling fortunes, that section of the Code w... ...ce him at the ministry. So, while the young Thuillier was making his first records on the Grand-Livre, he ought to have been studying his rhetoric and... ...s upholsterer, where the young wife, who was full of taste for art and for artists, and possessed a certain elegance, ruled, a queen. Madame Collevill... ...ugh rather mixed, was very amus- ing; she received and welcomed actresses, artists, men of let- ters, and a few rich men. Madame Colleville’s elegance... ...uing each other. I intend to have a choice little supper-party soon, where artists, tied to the pro- prieties at home, always compromise themselves. I... ...rniture not less advantageous in its way, but more avowable, than the very shady purchase of the house itself. For six thousand francs in ready money ... ...igin of that very improbable sum in our friend’s hands; and is that origin shady?” “You shall judge,” said Cerizet. And he related in all its details ...

Full Text Search Details
..., be hinted to those who are put in authority over us. Any animated description of a modern battle, any private soldier’s letter published in the news... ...opolis. Firstly, that he have his boots cleaned. Secondly, that he eat a penny ice. Thirdly, that he get himself photographed. Then do I speculate, Wh... ...rty of all who are born, but supposed it to be a special gift bestowed by the favouring Heavens on that one distinguished infant. There was no other c... ... road to the Pacific Ocean, with its lovely islands, where the savage girls plait flowers, and the savage boys carve cocoa-nut shells, and the grim bl... ...heatrical arrondissement of the department of the North,’ invited French-Flemish mankind to come and par- take of the intellectual banquet provided by... ...beginning with the words: ‘I give and be- queath.’ Will it seem exaggerative to state my belief that the most honest, the most modest, and the least v...