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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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...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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...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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...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 ...

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...the gray sports-suit she was now wearing. Ted—Theodore Roosevelt Babbitt—a decorative boy of seventeen. Tinka—Katherine—still a baby at ten, with radi... ...hing in the world except babies, cooking, and motors. He was a Bachelor of Arts of Blodgett College, and a Doctor of Philosophy in econom- ics of Yale... ...ted Ruler. He was a jolly man, given to oratory and to chumminess with the arts. He called on the famous actors and vaudeville artists when they came ... ...cs and religion this Sane Citizen is the canniest man on earth; and in the arts he invariably has a natural taste which makes him pick out the best, e... ...ls were as well rounded as they were practical. They neglected none of the arts. As to mu- sic the Sunday School Times advertised that C. Harold Lowde... ...wondered afterward if she was made up, but no man living knew less of such arts. She sat revolving her violet parasol. Her voice was ap- pealing witho...

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...ged upon his discipline and educational methods. At the end was a long and decorative schedule of his certificates and distinctions, beginning with a ... ...T o work, and think, and learn. T o hope and wait. T o de- spise the petty arts of womanliness, to trust to the sanity of man…. “T o awake like the fo...

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... the wars and processions, the castle building and cathedral building, the arts and loves, the small diplomacies and incurable feuds, the crusades and... ...danger, and the government was obliged to resort to such devices as simple decorative work in wood and stone, the manufacture of hand-woven textiles, ...

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...ought to reveal itself in its immensity. Here am I, shorn of all my little arts! To refuse or accept! That is the alternative boldly presented me, wit... ...o reply. All I can do is to fling two camellias in his face. What fiendish arts does love possess—pure, honest, simple-minded love! Here is the most t... ...e I feel that I can reckon on my household. All that is choice, pretty, or decorative in my house in the Rue du Bac has been transported to the chalet...

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...s cannot express themselves by vulgar applause. “Ah! music is the first of arts!” exclaimed the marquise. “Camille thinks youth and beauty the first o... ...ch begins a marriage is a pearl, a diamond, a jewel cut by the choicest of arts, a treasure to bury in the depths of the soul. Who can relate a honeym... ...me taste, and a certain composure of manner. Beatrix might now be called a decorative scenic effect, changed at will, and wonderfully manipulated. The... ... with an eye both powerful and calm, and from whom her greatest femi- nine arts and efforts could with difficulty obtain even a smile of approval. In ...

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... like a spangled lion tamer. He had not supposed her to be capable of vulgar arts, but these last words struck him as a false note. When a marriageabl... ...lf. It was as if somehow she had all society under contribution, and all the arts and graces it practised—or was the effect rather that of charming us... ...im, formally, as much as a woman could; what business had she then with such arts and such felicities, above all with such tones of reparation—prepara... ...one—a plate that he might heap up with ripe fruits, to which it would give a decorative value, so that talk might become for him a sort of served dess... ...reciation of her dear little stepdaughter it was based partly on his eye for decorative character, his instinct for authenticity; but also on a sense ...

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...ke a spangled lion- tamer. He had not supposed her to be capable of vulgar arts, but these last words struck him as a false note. When a marriageable ... ...It was as if some- how she had all society under contribution, and all the arts and graces it practised—or was the effect rather that of charming uses... ..., formally, as much as a woman could; what business had she then with such arts and such felicities, above all with such tones of reparation—preparati... ...— a plate that he might heap up with ripe fruits, to which it would give a decorative value, so that talk might become for him a sort of served desser... ...ciation of her dear little stepdaughter it was based partly on his eye for decorative character, his instinct for authenticity; but also on a sense fo...

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...me by the grace and alertness of her action—by the deft, cleanly, and even decorative effect resulting from each touch of her slight and fine fingers;... ...pursued the trail of her old suitor, M. Pelet. She soon overtook him. What arts she employed to soothe and blind him I know not, but she succeeded bot...

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...now irrevocably cut short. He taught the boy boxing, and shooting, and the arts of fence, and superintended the direction of his animal vigour with a ... ...s Book,” she said. Her own copy was bound in purple velvet, gilt-edged, as decorative ladies like to have holier books, and she carried it about with ... ...ly give her 301 George Meredith time and opportunity.” By dwelling on the arts of women, she reconciled it to her conscience to do her best to divide... ...n Pemberton,” clearly pronounced. He stood with black brows dissecting the arts of the tailor and hairdresser on uncon- scious John. The back, and muc... ...and made the young man think he’ll go for to reform her. It’s one o’ their arts— that is; and he’s too innocent a young man to mean anythin’ else. But... ... old china is a bad man they are mending! Lord Mountfalcon had none of the arts of a libertine: his gold, his title, and his person had hitherto prese...

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...s abstract virtue only)—the ladies were scaling society by the help of the Arts. To this laudable end sacrifices were now made to Euterpe to assist th... ...ark, in a state of enthusiasm for Besworth, that threw some portion of its decorative light on the, donor of Besworth. When his carriage was heard on ... ...there is more grace in sadness!” Poetry, sculpture, and songs, and all the Arts, were brought forward in mournful array to demonstrate the truth of hi... ...ng up before her—he who had always prophesied that she would be famous for arts unknown to her, and not for song just when she was having a vision of ... ... won’t be here to-night.” By which she betrayed that she had divined those arts she was to shine in, according to T racy; and betrayed that she had a ...

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... mind. They were so distin- guished, so dignified, they took their various arts with so admirable a gravity that the soul of this young man recoiled f... ...was worth while, and they found a great amazement in the lavish beauty and decorative wealth of that vast church and its associated cloisters, set far...

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...eal of manure. The village has a primitive air; it is rustic, and has that decorative simplicity which we artists are forever seeking. In the far dist... ...onclu- sions of the first cantos of all these poems:— ’Tis thus that the arts and the sciences, too, Find wisdom in things that seemed silly to yo...

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... to purchase a tortoiseshell comb which is a genuine article at any price that your humanity may put upon it and may the blessings of a ouseless famil... ...y its eagle— when the two paviours, whom I take to form the entire pav- ing population of the town, were ramming down the stones which had been pulled...

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...Dove susceptibilities. He gave you absurd feelings, he had inde- scribable arts, that quite turned the tables: this had been always how he came to see... ...striking in proportion as they triumphed over movement and change. She had arts and idiosyncrasies of which no great account could have been given, bu... ...Mrs. Stringham saw herself recruited for the removal of Kate’s delusion—by arts, however, in truth, that she as yet quite failed to compass. Or was it... ...ted for the party with the atten- dance of the others, always, as the most decorative, most sashed and starched, remained at the palace on the theory ...

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...of which was a picture of the Good Shepherd and a lamb, and on the other , decoratively framed in red lines, a short prayer which had to be said befor... ...sses of dingy red and tarnished gold, the heaviness of the shadows and the decorative lines, offered a new theme; and half the studios in the Quarter ... ...He had worked at several studios before Amitrano’s, at Julian’s, the Beaux Arts, and MacPherson’s, and was re- maining longer at Amitrano’s than anywh... ...d Hayward. “The layman.” Like most people who cultivate an interest in the arts, Hayward was extremely anxious to be right. He was dogmatic with those... ...ost as much separated as in an Oriental city. At Julian’s and at the Beaux Arts a French student was looked upon with disfavour by his fellow- country... ...ed them both, and gave the great ladies quite an air of patronesses of the arts); but he very seldom got hold of the solid philistine who was ready to...

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...ng that it comprised the usual French Count and the usual Italian Marchese—decorative social milestones, always to be found in certain places, and var... ... upon all peaceful public benefactors, and upon all the leaders of all the Arts and Sciences, with all their works to testify for them, during two cen... ...ways of virtuous ruggedness for those accursed snares which are called the Arts, becomes acquainted with her. And so, a graceless orphan, training to ...

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...possibility of a relation? What was it but a relation to be regarded as so decorative and, in especial, on the strength of it, to be whirled away, ami... ..., under his recent stress, acquired some hollow trick, one of the specious arts of make-believe. Wouldn’t the pages he still so freely dis- patched by... ...t night—put before me. It’s an art like another, and infinite like all the arts.” He went on as if for the joke of it—almost as if his friend’s face a...

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...nkering after cheap prettiness in art. Unfortunately this confusion of the decorative with the dramatic element in both literature and music is mainta... ...literature and music is maintained by the example of great masters in both arts. Very touching dramatic expression can be combined with decorative sym... ...sters in both arts. Very touching dramatic expression can be combined with decorative sym- metry of versification when the artist happens to possess b... ...ve sym- metry of versification when the artist happens to possess both the decorative and dramatic gifts, and to have cultivated both hand in hand. Sh... ...ersification. Still, both po- ets have achieved many passages in which the decorative and dramatic qualities are not only reconciled, but seem to en- ... ...lberic sings when he is slipping and sneezing in the Rhine mud is from the decorative point of view. Further, there is to be considered the mass of sh... ...o a certain point in his career Wagner paid the penalty of undertaking two arts instead of one. Mozart had his trade as a musician at his fingers’ end...

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... by women of rank and fashion who thought it behoved them to patronise the arts. An unat tached and fairly presentable young man is always in de man... ...ed how on earth I could have come by all the material concerning the black arts which I wrote of. I must have spent days and days read ing in the lib... ...wers. But the trees grew without aban donment, as though conscious of the decorative scheme they helped to form. It was autumn, and some were leafles... ...ot regret, therefore, that Arthur in many ways was narrow. Letters and the arts meant little to him. Nor would he trouble himself with the graceful tr... ...ing,’ smiled Susie. She believed privately that Margaret’s passion for the arts was a not unamiable pose which would disappear when she was happily ma... ... to the bearer? I am eager to know if you still devote upon the ungrateful arts talents which were more profitably employed upon haberdashery.’ The un... ...his pictures were fresh in her memory. She had found in them little save a decorative arrangement marred by faulty drawing; but Oliver Haddo gave them...

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...haracter. Not that the results of her attention to household matters, of a decorative and mundificatory character, are not pleasing to the sense of me... ..., which is nearly inseparable from the cow, is a standing objection to the decorative use of this animal. So that in all cases, except where luxurious... ...rom the dignity that should invest an article which is intended to serve a decorative and honorific end. The like pervading guidance of taste by pecun... ... incorporating in his home-made product something of this honorific, quasi-decorative element of wasted labor. It is notorious that in their selection... ...putable portion of the com- munity, it has acquired a certain honorific or decorative value. It has become prescriptive to such an extent that an adhe... ...elebrities, both living and dead, have been reputed masters in all magical arts; and a high position in the ecclesiastical personnel has carried with ...

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...ongue to the contemplative mind. Degeneracy is the critical history of the Arts. Jane’s hair was of a reddish gold-inwoven cast that would, in her gra... ... poems would pay as an ex- port but to show that if we excel in one of the Arts we may in others of them. The poetry was not cited, nor was it neces- ... ..., he glorifies his handsome roundness, like that other Foam-Born, whom the decorative Graces robed in vestments not so won- derful as printed sheets. ... ... both—the present of the good using of our powers. What can he show in the Arts? What in Arms? His bards— O faithless! but they are men—his bards accu... ...lean-stepping, braced, self-confident foreigner, good at arms, good at the arts, and eclipsing us in industriousness manual and mental, and some dare ... ...nce won’t com- bine to produce the stuff, we have recourse to the creative arts. ’Tis the necessity of the profession.’ ‘The profession will not impos...

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...ken no word for so salient a feature of our Edition as the couple of dozen decorative “illustrations.” This series of frontispieces contribute vi The... ...of smaller social insects, often endowed with such a range, from the other decorative spots on their bodies and wings. Maggie had liked, in London and... ...Amerigo’s expression and a logic in his weariness! One of her dissimulated arts for meeting their tension meanwhile was to in terweave Mrs. Assingham... ... than the refuge and disguise her agitation had instinctively asked of the arts of dress, multiplied to extravagance, almost to incoherence. She had h... ... perversity; as a “document,” somehow, it was ugly, though it might have a decorative grace. “His finding me here in presence of it might be more flagra... ...he could feel thus sure impertinence— to her at any rate—was not among the arts on which he proposed to throw himself; for though he had in so almost ... ...r name for the interest of her great opportunity: that of representing the arts and the graces to a people languishing afar off and in ignorance. Magg... ...red aestheti cally by such a scene. The fusion of their presence with the decorative elements, their contribution to the triumph of selection, was co...

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... has at length come to be, with us, nearly the sole test of its merit in a decorative point of view—and this test, once established, has led the way t... ...have not seen him, But Rumour speaks of him as of a prodigy Pre-eminent in arts and arms, and wealth, And high descent. We’ll have him at the wedding.... ... au pied d’une chaine des rochers sterils—peut il être un chef d’œvure des arts!” [Voila les arguments de M. Voltaire.] †“Oh ! the wave”—Ula Degusi is...

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...ent himself with setting the man to work again on man- telpieces and other decorative stone-work for use in house property on the Trefusis estate. In ... ...her previous aspirations seemed too limited. She tried her hand at all the arts in suc- cession, but was too discouraged by the weakness of her first ... ...tell a story well, liked music and could play and sing a little, loved the arts of design and could sketch a little in water colors, read every magazi... ...s at first sight. His imagination invested her with the taste for the fine arts which ho required from a wife, and he married her in her first sea- so... ...alled him by asking T refusis what idea he had formed of the future of the arts. He replied promptly. “Photography perfected in its recently discovere...

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...y, she cried: “Now, doesn’t it seem absurd to you? What is the good of the Arts if they ‘re interchangeable? What is the good of the ear if it tells y... ...ne more than any man in the nineteenth century towards the muddling of the arts. I do feel that mu- sic is in a very serious state just now, though ex... ...-furnished. Chelsea would have moaned aloud. Mr. Wilcox had eschewed those decorative schemes that wince, and 159 EM Forster relent, and refrain, and...

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...of his first baby, so he remained alone in the manse. He was a Bachelor of Arts of Cam- bridge, very shy, and no preacher. Mrs. Morel was fond of him,... ...y me!” “But you don’t, mother, you know you don’t care whether a picture’s decorative or not; you don’t care what manner it is in.” “How do you know I... ...nd was gaining some knowl- edge of his new acquaintance’s art. The applied arts inter- ested him very much. At the same time he laboured slowly at his...

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... so much importunity, in sooth, that it would appear to be beyond the Fine Arts to remember the points of a Patriarch, or to invent one. Philanthropis... ...rt of a one?’ asked Clennam, with a smile. ‘Why, he has sauntered into the Arts at a leisurely Pall-Mall pace,’ said Doyce, ‘and I doubt if they care ... ...r son’s being reduced to court the swinish public as a follower of the low Arts, instead of asserting his birthright and putting a ring through its no... ...ng that it comprised the usual French Count and the usual Italian Marchese—decorative social milestones, always to be found in certain places, and var... ... upon all peaceful public benefactors, and upon all the leaders of all the Arts and Sciences, with all their works to testify for them, during two cen... ...ways of virtuous ruggedness for those accursed snares which are called the Arts, becomes acquainted with her. And so, a graceless orphan, training to ...

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...and three peacock’s feathers tastefully arranged above them, completed the decorative furniture of the apartment. This was the room destined for the r... ... de- scribe, although perhaps it is easier for our lady read- ers to, what arts the three ladies could have used, so completely to entangle their sep...

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...der the especial patronage of his friend. He was taught the most ingenious arts of saying a lesson with- out learning it, and of showing up other peop... ...good taste, aiming only at what could be well done, and not attempting the decorative wardrobe of a great lady. Ethel was highly amused when the Misse...