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...ever, these pictures of ancient times are beginning to fade and disappear. Modern industry, working for the masses, goes on destroying the creations o... ...st, count for much in the phenomena of retrospection; but the monuments of modern industry are freestone quarries, saltpetre mines, cotton factories. ... ... is Guerande. The name alone awak- ens a thousand memories in the minds of painters, artists, thinkers who have visited the slopes on which this splen... ...to inanimate nature. These relics, resisting change, present to the eye of painters those dusky tones and half-blurred features in which the artistic ... ...entially Breton, fervently Catholic, silent, self-contained,—a place where modern ideas 7 Beatrix have little access. Its geographical position expla... ...s of the du Guaisnics, covered by hinged pewter lids. The chimney-piece is modernized. Its condition proves that the family has lived in this room for... ...riod when this scene opens, the family of Guenic (we follow henceforth the modern spelling) consisted of Monsieur and Madame du Guenic, Mademoiselle d... ...s. Her skin, so milk-white once, had taken the warm and pearly tones which painters adore. Her broad and finely modelled brow caught lovingly the ligh... ...nting the- atres and actors; squandering her fortune among pamphle- teers, painters, musicians, a devilish society, in short. She writes books herself...

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...loating hair inclining gently forward, in that aerial attitude which great painters give to messengers from heaven; the folds of her raiment fell with... ...s to be convinced of this. In one pas- sage he is seen as the precursor of modern chemistry by the announcement that the productions of organized natu... ... mantle covers like a pall an ancient Humanity 102 Seraphita of which the moderns retain no memory. Man never pauses; he goes his round, he vegetates... ...r Becker, “who at the age of twelve spoke forty-two languages, ancient and modern; also the history of that monk who could guess thought by smell. I c...

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... which are the despair of language and seem to belong exclu- sively to the painters of genre. What words can picture the alarming zig-zags produced by... ...o many royal and commercial houses offer signal examples. Why are there no modern pyra- mids to recall ceaselessly the one principle which dominates t... ...k, and tints with the color 68 Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau adored of painters, the tracery of blue veins throbbing be- neath the whiteness of he... ...a glowing happiness. If that happiness took from her head the poetry which painters in- sist on giving to their pictures my making them a shade too pe... ...flowers, in spite of police regulations against the hanging gardens of our modern Babylon. His appartement was made up of four rooms, with- 74 Rise a... ...some reason for it; for the ancients are the ancients, in spite of all the moderns may say; I stand by Boileau about the ancients. I took my departure... ...ade—to grow! Hair cannot be dyed without—danger! Ha! ha! success is there. Modern science is in union with the customs of the ancients. We can deal wi... ...to himself like other busy men in the turbulent and seething city, which a modern poet has called a vat. When he entered his shop, the clerk who had c...

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...nge that—they fit in the pictures.” “I’m afraid I should do better for the modern books. I would come as you like,” said Mrs. Monarch. “She has got a ... .... I was neither Leonardo nor Raphael; I might only be a presumptuous young modern searcher, but I held that everything was to be sacrificed sooner tha... ...hen she stood erect she took naturally one of the attitudes in which court-painters represent queens and princesses; so that I found myself wondering ... ...it was I who was most their form. They were not picturesque enough for the painters, and in those days there were not so many serious workers in black...

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... And in that pleasure lengthen the short dayes Of my lifes lease; like Painters that do take Delight, not in made worke, but whiles they m... ...gh deprest, And make a throne for him within their brest, 65 In spight of modern censures him avowing Their Soveraigne, all service him allowing....

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...many spells of old Rome. He spent much time in the galleries, and studied ‘modern painters’ with an earnestness that makes Ruskinism pervade his lette... ...ells of old Rome. He spent much time in the galleries, and studied ‘modern painters’ with an earnestness that makes Ruskinism pervade his letters. At ... ...y anything about it. I am heartily glad that you should acquire languages, modern as well as ancient. You know I have often pressed the former on your... ...z., books on school economy, manage- ment of school farms, allotments, the modern dairy, spade husbandry, agricultural chemistry. K, W , F , C, and G,... ...e at the north, three at the east side. The school and chapel, in one long modern building, form the corresponding wing on the eastern side of my litt... ...presumption and weak- ness, the vain transitory character of that phase of modern thought which Bishop Colenso represents, and confidently expects its... ... among them. The colour of the people is just what Titian and the Venetian painters delighted in, the colour of their own weather-beaten Venetian boat...

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...ps which made an ugly stain in the midst of the dazzling show-win- dows of modern retail commerce. This shop had a front painted in 1820, which some b... ...e race of porter. You’ll find knaves of morality, mountebanks of van- ity, modern sycophants, septembriseurs, disguised in philan- thropy, inventors o... ...nd the thousand other little trifles applied to our little apart- ments by modern art, which has made itself as small as its patrons. Vauvinet was dre... ...“are three boudoirs where the director has collected all the inventions of modern luxury: lambrequins to the windows, jardinieres everywhere, downy di... ...arnation of which borrowed from humanity a form which the imagi- nation of painters and poets has throughout all ages regarded as the most awful of cr... ...” had scintillated there in turn. Bored by his wife, du Tillet bought this modern little house, and there installed the celebrated Carabine, whose liv...

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...rries, which have furnished material for many of the finest build- ings in modern Paris and in foreign lands,—for the base and capital of the columns ... ...igris and his master, who then came for- ward. “You are, no doubt, the two painters whom Monsieur Grindot, the architect, told me to expect.” He whist... ...ures, evidently from old panels, plant- stands, various pretty articles of modern upholstery, hand- some lamps, and a rare old cut-glass chandelier, g... ... appearance to the room. The carpet was a Persian rug. The boudoir, wholly modern, and furnished entirely after Madame Moreau’s own taste, was arrange... ...he architect, had received notice from him of the early arrival of the two painters sent down to finish the decorations of the chateau, the principal ... ...looking at Bridau co- quettishly. “Beauty, madame, is a sovereign whom all painters wor- ship; it has unlimited claims upon them.” “They are both char... ...alon, where he found his clerk, extremely subdued in man- ner, and the two painters, all three of them painfully self- conscious and embarrassed. Mons... ...a middle course. He excites neither envy nor contempt. In short, he is the modern bourgeois. 154 A Start in Life Addendum The following personages ap...

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...y one! Ah, Caradori, thou smiling angel! Ah, Malibran! Nay, I will come to modern times, and acknowledge that Lablache was a very good singer thirty y... ..., 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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... point the Douglas cast, And moralize on the decay Of Scottish strength in modern day. XXIV . The vale with loud applauses rang, The Ladies’ Rock sent... ...ors of the poem. One was at the eastern end of Loch Earn, where the pretty modern vil- lage of St. Fillans now stands, under the shadow of Dun Fillan,... ...the finished studies of a resident artist.” See also on 278 below. Ruskin (Modern Painters, iii. 278) refers to “the love of color” as a leading eleme... ...ished studies of a resident artist.” See also on 278 below. Ruskin (Modern Painters, iii. 278) refers to “the love of color” as a leading element in S... ...nd the inner court of the building. 287. Chide. Here, figuratively, in the modern sense. See in 151 above. 290. Should lave. The 1st ed. has “did lave... ...ther of their strongholds on the shore of the lake near Balloch, where the modern Balloch Castle now stands. 217. Her glee. The 1st ed. misprints “his... ...perate.” 19. The Summer dawn’s reflected hue, etc. Mr. Ruskin says (Modern Painters, iii. 278): “And thus Nature becomes dear to Scott in a threefold ...

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... either joins them or separates them in heart as they already are in fact. Modern laws, by multiplying the family by the family, has created a great e... ...course like this. Felix, however, found in his work the same pleasure that painters, writers, architects take in their creations. He dou- bly enjoyed ... ...denesse knew, no doubt, the law of these trans- formations (created by our modern manners and morals), but he forgot them in his own case,—just as the... ...fought with angels or devils; it bears some resemblance to that the German painters give to the dead Christ; count- less signs of a constant struggle ... ...h the beauties 46 A Daughter of Eve of a French woman are in their glory. Painters particularly admired the lustre of her white shoulders, tinted wit... ... was captivated by ideas worthy of the days of chivalry, though completely modernized. The glowing con- versation of the poet had more echo in her min... ..., an apparent persecution, and Raoul felt certain of becoming one of those modern “condottieri” whose ink is worth more than powder and shot of the ol... ...enerous, like all persons who are not bound in the polished steel armor of modern society, Madame du Tillet resolved to take the whole matter upon her...

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...ams, and Squire Allworthy, and the great Jonathan Wild. With regard to the modern romance of “Jack Sheppard,” in which the latter personage makes a se... ...nature, the clouds and the bridge in the murder picture may be examined by painters who make far higher preten- sions than Mr. Cruikshank. In point of...

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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... ...surprisedly gazed at her. “I daresay you don’t know me,” she said with the modern laugh. “I’m Mark Ambient’s sister.” Whereupon I shook hands with her...

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...t the middle. The main building is sur- rounded by clock-towers and sundry modern turrets, with galleries and vases more or less Greek. No harmony the... ...xtravagance. They grovel before cotton prints and the tasteless designs of modern in- dustry, as if we were greater and happier in these days than in ... ...king! Amen! Will Florine be jealous of the late Mademoiselle Laguerre? Our modern Bourets have no French nobles now to show them how to live; they hir... ...e wife; so that the end of this present history may be like the end of all modern dramas, —a tragedy of the bed-chamber. Perhaps the fatal scene will ... ... or Fourchon. The old 40 Sons of the Soil man, surpassing the miracles of modern chemistry, knew too well how to resolve the tow into the all-benigna... ...e gate of the Avonne and show you the living image of those women whom the painters of the fif- teenth century delighted to perpetuate.” The sound of ... ...as needed to complete the scene,—a charm so touching in its actuality that painters have committed the error of en- deavoring to convey it in their pi... ...Tonsard was tall and strong, and in every re- spect the type of woman whom painters and sculptors take, as the Republic did in former days, for their ... ... wood that the apostles were made of, was of the type of Saint Peter; whom painters and sculptors have united in representing with the square brow of ...

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...e I saw clearly the differences of our own time I searched my mind for the modern equivalent of a Prince. At various times I redrafted a parallel dedi... ...hen he went into his study to write, dismissed them from his mind. But our modern world is burthened with its sense of the immense, now half ar- ticul... ...ght and the urgency and eventfulness of that great rain-swept heart of the modern world. It is difficult to think we have left that—for many years if ... ...les of the London County Council. It gives a measure of the newness of our modern ideas of the State to remember that the very beginnings of public 1... ...n in the world. Indeed it is in a measure the quality of the whole of this modern world from which we who have the statesman’s pas- sion struggle to e... ... not positively harmful paddle, and towed the other by means of the joined painters. Still it was the fault of the inadequate information supplied in ...

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... covered with snow, so that he looked quite as much like a polar bear as a modern philanthropist. “Sluggish hospitality this!” said he, in those deep ... ...nce She should have made it a point of duty, moreover, to sit endlessly to painters and sculptors, and preferably to the lat ter; because the cold de... ...ly for the ulterior purpose of making me a proselyte to his views! VIII. A MODERN AR VIII. A MODERN AR VIII. A MODERN AR VIII. A MODERN AR VIII. A MOD... ...sing to look at black old farmhouses, with their sloping roofs; and at the modern cottage, so like a plaything that it seemed as if real joy or sorrow... ...yards, was the rear of a range of buildings which appeared to be spacious, modern, and calculated for fash ionable residences. The interval between w... ...erfect theories, that had partially won credence in elder times, but which modern scepticism had swept away as rubbish. These things were now tossed u...

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...es him. He has all the dignity of an ancient saint with the sleekness of a modern bishop; he is always the same; he is always the archdeacon; unlike H... ...-fashioned chairs, bought at a price far exceeding that now given for more modern goods, with- out a purpose. The breakfast-service on the table was e... ...ed to the necessity of confessing it. And so the altar on the shore of the modern Aulis reeked with no sacrifice. 103 Anthony Trollope CHAPTER XII Mr... ...e. Every addition that science and art have lately made to the luxuries of modern life was to be found there. The room in which he usually sat was sur... ...otional lady looking intently at a lily as no lady ever looked before. Our modern artists, whom we style Pre-Raphaelites, have delighted to go back, n... ...y to the finish and peculiar manner, but also to the subjects of the early painters. It is impossible to give them too much praise for the elabo- rate...

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...g music: while over his realism or his irony he cast a tinge of that mixed modern and oriental fantasy which belonged to his temperament. He suffered ... ... spite of the author’s great genius, his evident desire to throw a slur on modern civilisation in the burlesqued character of Veherov, in “Never Sit i... ...know it is not very exciting to write the sort of stuff wanted, and in the modern style too. “‘Oh, I love you,” she bounded—’” “It’s all the same to m... ...rrival, sat expecting him every moment. The room was decorated in the best modern taste. Everything in it was charming and inviting, from the wails hu... ... slowly, then dropped her head, as if astonished at the freedom with which modern young girls entered into conversation. Kollomietzev smiled condescen... ...clares, ‘quite unlike Western art! ‘ Then he raves about our insignificant painters too! ‘At one time, I bowed down before Europe and the Italians,’ h...

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... from the coarse brown countenances we had seen at Lisbon. A very handsome modern cathedral, built by the present bishop at his own charges, was the f... ...a, a good old library filled full of good old books (none of your works of modern science, travel, and history, but good old useless books of the last... ..., to judge from Gibraltar and Malta, nothing can be less romantic than the modern military architecture; which sternly regards the fight- ing, without... ...ba- zaars with their barbaric splendour. There is a fortune to be made for painters in Cairo, and materials for a whole Acad- emy of them. I never saw... ...have not been able to destroy. —No: be that work for great geniuses, great painters, great poets!This quill was never made to take such flights; it co...

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... for fun, and duels between men in earnest, are very different affairs.] CHAPTER VIII The Great French Duel I Second Gambetta in a Terrific Duel MUCH ... ...plaints to make against any one. I acted for myself, and I can stand the consequences. Without boasting, I think I may say I am not afraid to stand be... ... flame. The ragged knight stole warily to a good position, then he unslung his cylindrical knapsack—which was simply the com- mon fire-extinguisher kn... ...ple the factory, too, and is trying to get these Dilsbergers to marry out of the family, but they don’t like to.” The captain probably imagined all th... ... main preciousness of this piece lies in its color; it is that old sensuous, pervading, ramifying, interpo- lating, transboreal blue which is the desp... ...ith their alcoved outlooks upon the lovely and inspiriting water. They contain two or three hundred queer old pictures, by old Swiss mas- ters—old bos... ...tant Alpine snow, when the sun is on it, which one recognizes as peculiar, and not familiar to the eye. The snow which one is accustomed to has a tint...