| 1905 - 606 pages
...often-quoted passage in his ' Ten o'clock ' with a sympathy not due to the words alone : ' And when evening mist clothes the river-side with poetry, as...themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become canpanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and... | |
| 1907 - 682 pages
...as the Infanta's hoops to Velasquez. He discloses the city at a time, to use his own perfect words, "when the evening mist clothes the riverside with...buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the warehouses are palaces in the dusk, and the whole city hangs in the heavens." Because these delicate... | |
| 1915 - 1050 pages
...London " the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanile, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens and fairy -land is before us." That is the Gospel of the Wonder of Work. Though I never studied under Whistler... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1915 - 814 pages
...subjects can be as noble as the other, as Whistler proved, when he showed for the first time how in London "the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanile, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens and... | |
| James McNeill Whistler - 1888 - 42 pages
...the sake of seeing, is, with the mass, alone the one to be gratified, hence the delight in detail. And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with...themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become companili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and... | |
| Gerard Baldwin Brown - 1891 - 354 pages
...beneath a veil of shadow. Here is what a painter of to-day has said about nightfall on the Thames : ' And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with...night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairvlaml is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home ; the working man and the cultured one, the... | |
| 1898 - 656 pages
...the ordinary way with cold water. A. FEEBLE SMITH. WHEN the evening's mist clothes tne river's side with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, the tall chimneys become campanile, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city... | |
| Gerard Baldwin Brown - 1901 - 358 pages
...beneath a veil of shadow. Here is what a painter of to-day has said about nightfall on the Thames: ' And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with...city hangs in the heavens, and fairyland is before us—then the wayfarer hastens home; the working man and the cultured one, the wise man and the one... | |
| Dora Amsden - 1905 - 126 pages
...What a fairy wand was wafted by Whistler, standing upon Battersea Bridge! "The evening mist," he said, "clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil,...sky. and the tall chimneys become Campanili, and the ware167] houses are palaces in the night and the whole city hangs in die heavens, and fairyland is... | |
| 1906 - 950 pages
...gratified, hence the delight in detail. And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in...night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairy land is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home; the working man and the cultured one, the... | |
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