Essays, Volume 1Houghton Mifflin, 1903 - 445 pages |
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Page 62
... picture waits for my verdict ; it is not to com- mand me , but I am to settle its claims to praise That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead - drunk in the street , carried to the duke's house , washed and dressed and laid in ...
... picture waits for my verdict ; it is not to com- mand me , but I am to settle its claims to praise That popular fable of the sot who was picked up dead - drunk in the street , carried to the duke's house , washed and dressed and laid in ...
Page 356
... pictures can easily tell us their last secret . The best pictures are rude draughts of a few of the miraculous dots and lines and dyes which make up the ever- changing " landscape with figures " amidst which we dwell . Painting seems to ...
... pictures can easily tell us their last secret . The best pictures are rude draughts of a few of the miraculous dots and lines and dyes which make up the ever- changing " landscape with figures " amidst which we dwell . Painting seems to ...
Page 362
... pictures are . The Transfiguration , by Raphael , is an emi- nent example of this peculiar merit . A calm benignant beauty shines over all this picture , and goes directly to the heart . It seems almost to call you by name . The sweet ...
... pictures are . The Transfiguration , by Raphael , is an emi- nent example of this peculiar merit . A calm benignant beauty shines over all this picture , and goes directly to the heart . It seems almost to call you by name . The sweet ...
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