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...n waiting her whole life for this moment to arrive. The Islamic Historical Arts Museum—or TIHAM as Therese, her co-workers and the museum's administra... ...Mughal carpet. Agog and head tilted back, he slowly turned and admired the decorative architecture of the main hall's ribbed dome—a precise replica of... ... front entrance, and gathered herself. Several patrons and students of the arts congregated on the main floor—not quite as deserted as her office but ...

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...o handle them. Poor grades, a lack or popularity or achievement—in sports, arts, or other areas, and estrangement from parents are some of the social... ...y in search of a Roman romance.‖ —―Maybe those erections were just decorative toga hangers.‖ —―Whatever they were they shocked the An... ...Maybe we just have to expand our college educations— four years of liberal arts studies and four years of technical education.‖ —―Maybe we‘re goi...

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...Excerpt: There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the strings...

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...enson CHAPTER I ON SOME TECHNICAL ELEMENTS OF STYLE IN LITERATURE* THERE IS NOTHING more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechani... ... hand, a strange freshness and immediacy of address to the public mind, which is ready prepared to understand it; but hence, on the other, a singular ... ...rt. Nor is this all; for since these blocks, or words, are the acknowledged currency of our daily affairs, there are here possible none of those suppr... ...hat point? 2. THE WEB. – Literature, although it stands apart by rea- son of the great destiny and general use of its medium in the affairs of men, is... ... sounds, of changing atti- tudes, geometrical figures, or imitative lines; but still a pat- tern. That is the plane on which these sisters meet; it is... ...some time it signified and expressed a more ample contemplation of the conditions of man’s life; but it has recently (at least in France) fallen into ...

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...e cartridge paper and cardboard and other things to help in our and of the decorative make of plasticine. Of course, it 6 Floor Games goes without sa... ...omes made of half Easter eggs and cardboard cones. These are surmounted by decorative work of a flamboyant character in plasticine, designed by G. P .... ... pass, and follow Carthage and Nineveh, the empire of Aztec and Roman, the arts of Etruria and the palaces of Crete, and the plannings and contrivings...

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...e gratis of a comical scene with Monsieur Molineux as concerning cer- tain decorative repairs in his studio, was not surprised to see the dark greasy ... ...er, whose name must be known to you in spite of your indiffer- ence to the arts.” The old man saw his friend’s mischievous intent in sup- pressing the...

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...es one’s reflections upon the advantage, in even the least personaI of the arts, of hav- ing something to say, and upon the stupidity of a taste which... ...orticos,—a portico over which a monumental salamander indulges in the most decorative contortions. The sculptured vaults of stone which cover the wind... ...fice by Charles VIII., is embroidered over with the curious and remarkably decorative device of the ermine and festooned cord. The objects in themselv... ...ive monument. Within, it has lately been daubed over with the most hideous decorative painting that was ever inflicted upon passive pillars and indiff... ...lizing device, which—partly, perhaps, because it is tantalizing—is so very decorative, as they say in Lon- don. I know not whether she was acquainted ... ...ken, and it will never work again. Meanwhile the monuments are im- mensely decorative. I think the thing that pleased me best at Dijon was the little ...

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...er. He’s very quiet. He’s not in the least interested in literature or the arts.” “Why do nice women marry dull men?” “Because intelligent men won’t m... ...d with approval on her sister’s leaning towards persons who cultivated the arts. She spoke of “culchaw” derisively . Mrs. Strickland continued: “After... ...ted than most painters. He was not, like most of them, ignorant of kindred arts, and his 72 The Moon and Sixpence taste for music and literature gave... ... that Stroeve had made in Rome, and placed so as to make the most of their decorative effect were a number of Stroeve’s pictures, all in splendid fram... ...e was a stranger still, and she tried to bind him to herself with pathetic arts. She strove to en- snare him with comfort and would not see that comfo... ... to live with,” said Mr. Van Busche Taylor. “ Y es; they’re so essentially decorative.” “That is one of my profoundest convictions,” said Mr. Van Busc... ...profoundest convictions,” said Mr. Van Busche Taylor. “Great art is always decorative.” 235 Somerset Maugham Their eyes rested on a nude woman suckli...

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...ville and, the other day, St. 54 Across the Plains Raphael were lost to the arts. Curious and not always edify- ing are the shifts that the French st... ...re still pretty in their confusion, and the great plain that contrives to be decorative in its emp- tiness. II IN SPITE OF ITS REALLY considerable ext... ...d his judgment upon both. At Barbizon there was no master, no pontiff in the arts. Palizzi bore rule at Gretz – urbane, superior rule – his memory ric... ...winning battles, the farmer sailing ships, the banker reaping triumph in the arts: all leading another life, plying another trade from that they chose... ...d him. He may have the general vocation too: he may have a taste for all the arts, and I think he often has; but the mark of his calling is this labor... ... allowance of a field officer; or do they suppose their contributions to the arts of pleasing more important than the services of a colonel? Per- haps...

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...ages do not; nor the women of holy nunneries; nor the women lucky in their arts. It is a test of the civilized to see and hear, and add no yapping to ... ...h when discreetly tended, nature is unimpeachable, flower-eke, yet not too decoratively a flower; you must have her with the stem, the thorns, the roo... ... gallant independence: and some who dedicate their lives to a study of the arts of the Lord Of Reptiles, until they have worked the crisis for a displ... ...ded to the mute expression of the refusal. Wherever Mrs. Warwick went, her arts of charming were addressed to the women. Men may be counted on for fal... ...dialogue should make her com- prehensible to them. Nature taught her these arts, through which her wit became extolled entirely on the strength of her... ... beauty did her service by never tak- ing aim abroad. They are the woman’s arts of self-defence, as legitimately and honourably hers as the manful use... ...fancy himself sounded regarding Miss Asper: a piece of sculpture glacially decorative of the domestic mansion in person, to his thinking; and as to th... ...matter-of-fact, as she is wedded, with a ‘wilt thou,’ and ‘I will,’ and no decorative illusions. Downright, for the unpoetic creature, if you please! ...

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...e, nor I believe entirely true,” returned Glenalmond. “Before you are done you will find some of these expressions rise on you like a remorse. They ar... ...be prolonged till the small hours by the waning fire. It was no wonder that Archie was fond of company after his solitary days; and Kirstie, upon her ... ...ly mingled in her tones. “A fine day, mem,” the laird’s wife would reply with a miraculous curtsey, spreading the while her plumage – setting off, in ... ...ngs, their descendants, who lingered a little in their places, and would soon be gone also, and perhaps sung of by others at the gloaming hour. By one... ...s conscious, even before it was carried out, even on that Sunday night when it began, of an invasion of her rights; and a voice told her the invader’s...

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...om touching it because it was a last resource, and she had relied on other arts to stimulate other sensations; but as a settled look of dulness began ... ...ly the raw material of conquest, and that to convert it into success other arts are required. She knew that to betray any sense of supe- riority was a... ...d himself on his elbow. “Good heavens!” he went on, “I don’t underrate the decorative side of life. It seems to me the sense of splendour has justifie... ...he spell of his observation Lily felt herself powerless to exert her usual arts. The dread of Selden’s suspecting that there was any need for her to p... ...se as a savage; but even his self-engrossment was not proof against Lily’s arts, or rather these were especially adapted to soothe an uneasy egoism. H... ...re visible, suggested what oppor- tunities she had had for practising such arts since their last meeting. He felt that she had at last arrived at an u... ... and paint the humming-bird’s breast? And was it her fault that the purely decorative mission is less easily and harmoniously ful- filled among social...

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..., as he looked back on it, to bear no more relation to reality than a pale decorative design to the confused richness of a summer landscape. He no lon... ...e you please. Those two chaps over there are friends of mine, at the Beaux Arts; both of them rather good fellows— 36 The Reef and we’d be so glad—” ... ...three of the girls she had envied for their superior acquaintance with the arts of life had contracted, in the course of time, what were variously des... ...nd to marry Owen she had more than enough skill and tenacity to defeat any arts that poor Madame de Chantelle could oppose to her. Darrow himself was ... ...uld impel or restrain him at the crucial hour. She put no faith in her own arts: she was too sure of having none! And if some beneficent enchanter had... ...t that, in the company of a young compatriot who was studying at the Beaux Arts, he had planned to leave for Spain the following evening. “He hasn’t s...

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...linders inscribed with green let- tering on white that harmonized With the decorative scheme of the room, and in the centre of this side projected a l... ...e disloyal. They have little ammunition. And we are reviving the an- cient arts. We are casting guns.” “But—help. Is this city the world?” “Practicall... ...itated at the invited compliment, but his glance was expressive. “Have the arts grown with the rest of civilised things?” he said. “Who are your great... ...hundred feet, a frontage broken only by terraces here and there, a complex decorative facade. That gradual passage of town into country through an ex-...

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...a painter, a picture such as may be 17 Balzac seen at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts; if a musician, a cantata; if an architect, the plans for a public bui... ...se cold and cheerless buildings, and taken to the elegant Palais des Beaux-Arts, which stands near by. From the windows of Madame Bridau’s new abode, ... ...he Pont Neuf for the two sous it would have cost him to go by the Pont des Arts to the Palais-Royal, where he consumed regu- larly two glasses of bran... ...morn- ing was crossing the Pont Neuf to avoid paying a sou at the Pont des Arts, she saw, coming along by the shops of the Quai de l’Ecole, a man bear... ... de Presles for the Comte de Serizy. I have left all the mouldings and the decorative painting; and I have recommended you so strongly to the count, a... ...ed as Chauvelin; you would be made Comte Bixiou, and director of the Beaux-Arts. Once there, how should you like it if your grandmother Descoings were...

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...to see her carried off by that very rich Duke, who is such a patron of the arts. Oh, what is his name?— a dwarf.—Ah, the Duc d’Herouville. This fine g... ...e has no hope 38 Cousin Betty of mercy——” “A professor of what?” “Of fine arts.” “And he came to Paris when the rebellion was quelled?” “In 1833. He ... ...Are you going to pour out all your nonsense once more about poetry and the arts, and to crack your fingers and stretch your arms while you spout about... ...y, added that he owed his position to his acknowledged talent for the fine arts. He had always had a preference for sculpture; the necessary time for ... ...ary estates. Only small pic- tures and small figures can find a place; the arts are endan- gered by this need of small things.” “But if a great artist... ...s muster, simply to allow of the most perfidious praise of his talent as a decorative artist, and to give the greater emphasis to the statement that s...

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...ine model of the old school, gave substance and richness to the rather too decorative quality, as a painter might call it, of the rest of the room. On... ...ade 51 Balzac monotonous by happiness. This law of life is the law of all arts, which exist only by contrasts. A work done without this incentive is ...

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...the rulers and leaders; they owned all the property, they invented all the arts. The primitive government was the Matriarchate. The Ma- triarchate! Th... ...nd servantless, and they had re- duced simple living to the finest of fine arts. Mr. Goopes, Ann Veronica gathered, was a mathematical tutor and vis- ... .... For the most part these were detached people: men practising the plastic arts, young writers, young men in employment, a very large proportion of gi... ...derlay the discussions of the Fabian Society, the talk of the West Central Arts Club, the chatter of the studios and 129 H. G . Wells the deep, the b... ...er straying mind would become astonishingly active—embroidering bright and decorative things that she could say to Capes; some- 243 H. G . Wells time...

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...inking low with love’s emotion! Levying with look and tone All love’s rosy arts to mimic Cytherea’s magic zone! T rembling up with adoration T o the c... ...with hope that she might win, If she but coaxed him to begin, She used all arts for making fain; The mother with her babe was Jane. 352 XXXI Now stam... ...yoke, Again to be the lordly paw, Naming his appetites his needs, Behind a decorative cloak: 380 Thou, of the highest, the unwritten Law We read upon... ...of indolence; With every sleek convolvement serpentine; The pride in elfin arts to veil an evil leer, And bid a goatfoot trip it like a fay. He claspe... ...uror, Solon-Mars, The cataract of the abyss, the star of stars; 422 Whose arts to lay the senses under spell Aroused an insurrectionary mind. IX He, ... ...umes Of crested vanity shed graceful nods: T ranscendent in her foundries, Arts and looms, Had France to fear the vengeance of the Gods? Her faith was...

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...dies, Mr. Melville was much interested in all matters relating to the fine arts, and devoted most of his leisure hours to the two subjects. A no- tabl... ...e. His library, in addition to numerous works on phi- losophy and the fine arts, was composed of standard books of all classes, including, of course, ... ...en in a situation to instruct them in any of the rudiments of the mechanic arts, or had I manifested a disposition to render myself in any way useful ... ...ectly drawn and elaborately finished. Indeed the best specimen of the Fine Arts I had yet seen in Typee. A rear view of the stranger might have sugges... ...y were, the race has sadly deteriorated in their knowledge of the mechanic arts. T o say nothing of their habitual indolence, by what contrivance with... ...s earrings and spear, both well polished, lay beside him, while the highly decorative pair of shoes hung suspended from a projecting cane against the ...