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... portraits with bars and patches of brightness never contem plated by the painters. Athwart the picture of my Lady, over the great chimney piece, it ... ...e pupils, “will look leniently on the deficiencies here. We do our best to polish—polish—polish!” He sat down beside me, taking some pains to sit on t... ...s illustrious model on the sofa. And really he did look very like it. “T o polish—polish—polish!” he repeated, taking a pinch of snuff and gently flut... ...e. “Again you find us, Miss Summerson,” said he, “using our little arts to polish, polish! Again the sex stimulates us and rewards us by the condescen... ...ke or a curry 362 Bleak House – Vol. One comb—as he rubs, and puffs, and polishes, and blows, turn ing his head from side to side the more convenie... ...rvice. The dinner done, Mrs. Bagnet, assisted by the younger branches (who polish their own cups and platters, knives and forks), makes all the dinner...

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...n as to produce the magical effect of the ‘lost profile,’ so dear to great painters, by which the cheek catches the high light, the nose is shown in c... ....” “T o be such a woman, is it not necessary to be very clever?” asked the Polish Count. “It is necessary to have great taste,” replied the Princesse ... ...those I came across, happily towards evening I perceived a wretched little Polish farm, of which nothing can give you any idea unless you have seen th...

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... portraits with bars and patches of brightness never contem plated by the painters. Athwart the picture of my Lady, over the great chimney piece, it ... ...e pupils, “will look leniently on the deficiencies here. We do our best to polish—polish—polish!” He sat down beside me, taking some pains to sit on t... ...s illustrious model on the sofa. And really he did look very like it. “T o polish—polish—polish!” he repeated, taking a pinch of snuff and gently flut... ...e. “Again you find us, Miss Summerson,” said he, “using our little arts to polish, polish! Again the sex stimulates us and rewards us by the condescen... ...ake or a curry 362 Bleak House – Dickens comb—as he rubs, and puffs, and polishes, and blows, turn ing his head from side to side the more convenie... ...rvice. The dinner done, Mrs. Bagnet, assisted by the younger branches (who polish their own cups and platters, knives and forks), makes all the dinner...

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... It was not this, however, he mainly relished; it was the fine ivory surface, polished as by the English air, that the old man had opposed to possibili... ...rich colour and on the faded gilding of heavy frames; it made a sheen on the polished floor of the gallery. Ralph took a candlestick and moved about, p... ...corners, the deep embrasures and curious casements, the quiet light on dark, polished panels, the deep greenness outside, that seemed always peeping i... ...n him, and there was something in their character that reminded him of large polished buttons—buttons that might have fixed the elastic loops of some t... ... his society, while he pointed out its principal ornaments and mentioned the painters and subjects. Miss Stack pole looked at the pictures in perfect... ...idedly liked her im mensely, had taken her arm, to walk beside her over the polished floor. Lord Warburton strolled on the other side with his hands b...

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... was not this, however, he mainly relished; it was the fine ivory surface, polished as by the English air, that the old man had opposed to possibiliti... ...ch colour and on the faded gilding of heavy frames; it made a sheen on the polished floor of the gal- lery. Ralph took a candlestick and moved about, ... ...rners, the deep embrasures and curious casements, the quiet light on dark, polished panels, the deep greenness outside, that seemed always peeping in,... ...him, and there was something in their character that reminded him of large polished but- tons—buttons that might have fixed the elastic loops of some ... ... he pointed out its principal ornaments and mentioned the 103 Henry James painters and subjects. Miss Stackpole looked at the pic- tures in perfect s... ...idedly liked her immensely, had taken her arm, to walk beside her over the polished floor. Lord Warburton strolled on the other side with his hands be...

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...d, noticing the elegance and newness of his clothes. Godefroid was wearing polished leather boots, yellow gloves, handsome studs, and a very pretty go... ...ite, resembling those of the cold, grave women of Holland whom the Flemish painters have so won- derfully reproduced with their smooth skins, in which... ...e were many young nobles, and his various gal- lantries, had given him the polished manners and ways of people of condition, who were then called aris... ...lled a quack; but he carefully pointed out that this man was a stranger, a Polish Jew, a refugee, and that the Parisian doctors were extremely jealous... ... a pause, “have noth- ing, but I may be able to do much. I will obtain the Polish doctor for you. And if your daughter is curable she shall be cured. ... ...r’s ill- ness. From him Godefroid obtained the address of Halpersohn. This Polish doctor, since so celebrated, then lived in Chaillot, rue Marbeuf, in...

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... Nay, Prime Ministers rehearse their jokes; Opposition leaders prepare and polish them: Tabernacle preachers must arrange them in their minds before t... ..., as the gravedigger, was chaste and comic, as he always is, and the scene-painters surpassed themselves. “Harlequin Conqueror and the Field of Hastin...

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...e bouton d’or), seeing from afar the many-candled lustres reflected in the polished parquetry, and beyond that the depths of a conservatory where came... ... (for the first time) Mrs. Lemuel Struthers, the widow of Struthers’s Shoe-polish, who had returned the previous year from a long initiatory sojourn i... ...hers came along. They say his advertiser used the girl’s head for the shoe-polish posters; her hair’s intensely black, you know—the Egyptian style. An... ...his. Her brother laughed. “Why Elaine?” “I don’t know; it sounds more—more Polish,” said Janey, blushing. “It sounds more conspicuous; and that can ha... ...course the dilemma was purely hypothetical; since he wasn’t a black- guard Polish nobleman, it was absurd to speculate what his wife’s rights would be... ...of his universe. He knew that there were societies 73 Edith Wharton where painters and poets and novelists and men of science, and even great actors,... ...ink of. Archer knew most of the “fellows who wrote,” the musicians and the painters: he met them at the Century, or at the little musical and theatric... ...gle artist since I’ve been here.” “What kind of artists? I know one or two painters, very good fellows, that I could bring to see you if you’d allow m... ...ws, that I could bring to see you if you’d allow me,” said Archer boldly. “Painters? Are there painters in New Y ork?” asked Beau- fort, in a tone imp...

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...pt in so far as it touches upon his char - acter . I cannot agree with the painters who claim superciliously that the layman can understand nothing of... ...ontact with Strickland in the past, writers who had known him in Lon- don, painters who had met him in the cafes of Montmartre, discovered to their am... ...d numbers the world will willingly remember. I cannot tell. I admire their polish — their youth is already so accomplished that it seems absurd to spe... ...carefully painted. A photograph could not have been more exact. One of the painters at the Villa Medici had called him Le Maitre de la Boite a Chocolo... ...ve was not to me, as to others, merely an object of ridi- cule. His fellow-painters made no secret of their contempt for his work, but he earned a fai... ...known a man whose judgment was surer. And he was better educated than most painters. He was not, like most of them, ignorant of kindred arts, and his ... ...ng the plates and glasses, the forks and spoons, giving the knives a rapid polish on the knife-board; and then putting everything away , giving the si...

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...rch full of character, a church of the days of the Crusades, such a one as painters desire for their pictures. Surround this scene with ancient walnut... ...e a lily, to which my heart has always com- pared her, bruised beneath the polished wheels of a steel car. That mother had nothing in common with her ... ...a blue collar embroidered by her, a little sky-blue overcoat fastened by a polished leather belt, a pair of white trousers pleated at the waist, and a... ...ecessary working of a ma- chine which goes by clockwork. Fortifications of polished steel rise around the Englishwoman behind the golden wires of her ... ...pets to the floors in every corner of the house, brushes the cellar walls, polishes the knocker of the front door, oils the springs of the carriage,—i... ...ll those on whom it falls until it bares their bones, which it scrapes and polishes. The tongue of a clever Englishwoman is like that of a tiger teari...

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...n Italy. He had been there much in former years—he was saturated with what painters call the “feeling” of that classic land. He expressed the charm of... ...wife as interpreted by his remarkable sister. “To sink your shaft deep and polish the plate through which people look into it—that’s what your work co... ...—that’s what your work consists of,” I remember ingeniously observing. “Ah polishing one’s plate—that’s the torment of execu- tion!” he exclaimed, jer...

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...arness, carve in copper, paint carriages, blow glass, corrode the diamond, polish metals, turn marble into leaves, labor on pebbles, deck out thought,... ...ze, a brain of steel, beneath external traits as seductive as ever the old painters, those naive artists, had given to the serpent in the terrestrial ... ...erous, mon- strous, savagely ferocious, which the imagination of poets and painters had not yet conceived. In effect, no rendezvous had ever irritated...

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...al atmosphere of these pro- ductions was thereby so influenced, that rival painters pro- nounced it a case of hopeless mannerism, which would de- stro... ...an’s eye, that has discovered a new star, turns from its glory to send the polished little in- strument gleaming along the hem of her kerchief, or to ... ...merely as the delineation of a lovely face; although Miriam, like all self-painters, may have endowed herself with certain graces which Other eyes mig... ... fore many a famous picture by Guido, Domenichino, Raphael, and the devout painters of earlier schools than these. Other artists and visitors from for... ...aces; its churches, lined with the gor- geous marbles that were originally polished for the adorn- ment of pagan temples; its thousands of evil smells... ... to show me?” “Pray look at everything here,” said Kenyon. “I love to have painters see my work. Their judgment is unprejudiced, and more valuable tha... ... year after year in Italy, while their originality dies out of them, or is polished away as a barbarism. The company this evening included several men... ...rought. “And see!” said Kenyon, laying his hand upon it, “there is still a polish remaining on the hard substance of the pillar; and even now, late as... ... heat it through. 114 The Marble Fawn This shaft will endure forever. The polish of eighteen centu- ries ago, as yet but half rubbed off, and the hea...

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...lders dealt her double prize; The small to me, the greater to her sire. As painters now advance and now retire Before the growing canvas, and anon Onc... ...rls, Outshone the light of Erythraean pearls; The teeth of India that with polish glow, The untouched lilies or the morning snow. Her tresses did gold...

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...al atmosphere of these pro- ductions was thereby so influenced, that rival painters pro- nounced it a case of hopeless mannerism, which would de- stro... ...an’s eye, that has discovered a new star, turns from its glory to send the polished little in- strument gleaming along the hem of her kerchief, or to ... ...merely as the delineation of a lovely face; although Miriam, like all self-painters, may have endowed herself with certain graces which Other eyes mig... ... fore many a famous picture by Guido, Domenichino, Raphael, and the devout painters of earlier schools than these. Other artists and visitors from for... ...aces; its churches, lined with the gor- geous marbles that were originally polished for the adorn- ment of pagan temples; its thousands of evil smells... ... to show me?” “Pray look at everything here,” said Kenyon. “I love to have painters see my work. Their judgment is unprejudiced, and more valuable tha... ... year after year in Italy, while their originality dies out of them, or is polished away as a barbarism. The company this evening included several men... ...rought. “And see!” said Kenyon, laying his hand upon it, “there is still a polish remaining on the hard substance of the pillar; and even now, late as... ... heat it through. 114 The Marble Fawn This shaft will endure forever. The polish of eighteen centu- ries ago, as yet but half rubbed off, and the hea...

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...pths of color with which poets seek in vain to dye their verses, and which painters never dare to copy. As beheld from the tower of Monte Beni, the sc... ...a of the beauty and magnificence that are produced by these fittings-up of polished marble. Without such experi- ence, indeed, we do not even know wha... ...s. These men, and a few Flemings, whispers the wicked demon, were the only painters. The mighty Italian masters, as you deem them, were not human, nor... ...ore profoundly. She began to suspect that some, at least, of her venerated painters, had left an inevitable hollowness in their works, because, in the... ...d become consummate. When you demand what 101 Hawthorne is deepest, these painters have not wherewithal to respond. They substituted a keen intellect... ... critics of their works; a taste for pictorial art is often no more than a polish upon the hard enamel of an artificial character. Hilda had lavished ... ...human idol) that the greater part was thrown away. For some of the earlier painters, however, she still retained much of her former reverence. Fra Ang... ... brazen St. Peter, who pro- trudes it beyond his pedestal for the purpose, polished bright with former salutations, while a child stood on tiptoe to d... ...e. When first erected, they were cased externally, no doubt, with slabs of polished marble, artfully wrought bas-reliefs, and all such suitable adornm...

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...the like of it unknown in cities, woven with homespun, and Sunday black, and sea- cloth polished on the bench of rowing. The room, like the house, had... ...h which she had infected the Doctor; everything was in its place; everything capable of polish shone gloriously; and dust was a thing banished from he... ...rations of morality. The three requisites all centre in Tentaillon’s boarders. They are painters, there- fore they are continually lounging in the for... ...s. They are painters, there- fore they are continually lounging in the forest. They are painters, therefore they are not unlikely to have some smat- t... ... they are not unlikely to have some smat- tering of education. Lastly, because they are painters, they are probably immoral. And this I prove in two w... ... robbery is an odd thing. Of course I pass over your nonsense about gangs and landscape-painters. For me, that is a dream. Who was in the house last n... ...use for the rats to desert; and nothing but its excellent brightness – the window-glass polished and shining, the paint well scoured, the brasses radi... ...r-in-law’s not very consolatory conversation. He entirely ignored the two young English painters, turning a blind eyeglass to their salutations, and c...

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...ille, leaning out of a low garret window, watching the drying of his newly polished shoes on the little parapet outside (if a gentleman), or the airin... ... for they were very roughly and comically got up; most likely by poor sign painters, who eke out their living in that way. They were all little pictur... ...uence. It is miserable to see great works of art—something of the Souls of Painters—perishing and fading away, like human forms. This cathedral is odo... ...ius on a face, which, almost in a line or touch, separated him from meaner painters and made him what he was, succeeding bunglers, filling up, or pain... ...one time, I used to please my fancy with the speculation whether these old painters, at their work, had a foreboding knowledge of the man who would on... ...t jackets; quaint old stomachers, more wicked than the smart est bodices; Polish pelisses, strained and tight as ripe goose berries; tiny Greek caps... ...ts, as works of art, to justify their compound mul tiplication by Italian Painters. It seems to me, too, that the indiscriminate and deter mined rap...

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...ess ‘Sufficiently’ (he said) ‘his approbation Of all the customs of this polish’d nation. ‘For his own share—he saw but small objection To s... ...ut extremely winning, With the most regulated charms of feature, Which painters cannot catch like faces sinning Against proportion—the wild st... ... Achilles’ self was not more grim and gory Than thousands of this new and polish’d nation, Whose names want nothing but — pronunciation. Still ... ...ould be Now under arms. Ho! Katskoff, take him to (Here he call’d up a Polish orderly) His post, I mean the regiment Nikolaiew: The strang... ...them, The rudest brute that roams Siberia’s wild Has feelings pure and polish’d as a gem,— The bear is civilised, the wolf is mild; And wh... ...yours) Was left upon his way to the chief city Of the immortal Peter’s polish’d boors Who still have shown themselves more brave than witty.... ... gone before him, and his wars and loves; And as romantic heads are pretty painters, And, above all, an Englishwoman’s roves Into the excursiv...

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...he door, formed by fluted pilasters, was dark gray in color, and so highly polished that it shone as if var- nished. On either side of the doorway, on... ...s. Balthazar entered, dressed in the fashion of the period. He wore highly polished top-boots, which al- lowed the upper part of the white silk stocki... ...rd of honor, they are mere screen-paint- ing,—no depth, no atmosphere; the painters were actually afraid to put colors on their canvas. And it is they... ...lorious path.” “A man!” she cried in terror. “Do you remember, Pepita, the Polish officer who stayed with us in 1809?” “Do I remember him!” she exclai... ...een a room in any inn I would never have allowed him to sleep here.” “That Polish gentleman,” resumed Balthazar, “was named Adam de Wierzchownia. When... ...n appartement, Balthazar gave his wife the letter he had received from the Polish officer: Josephine returned it with a mournful gesture; she foresaw ...