The Last Essays of EliaJ.M. Dent and Company, 1903 - 277 pages |
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Page 152
... imagination of the artist halts , and appears defective . Let us examine the point of the story in the " Belshazzar's Feast . " We will introduce it by an apposite anecdote . The court historians of the day record , that at the first ...
... imagination of the artist halts , and appears defective . Let us examine the point of the story in the " Belshazzar's Feast . " We will introduce it by an apposite anecdote . The court historians of the day record , that at the first ...
Page 158
... imaginative faculty . The world has nothing to show of the preternatural in painting , transcending the figure of Lazarus bursting his grave - clothes , in the great picture at Angerstein's . It seems a thing between two beings . A ...
... imaginative faculty . The world has nothing to show of the preternatural in painting , transcending the figure of Lazarus bursting his grave - clothes , in the great picture at Angerstein's . It seems a thing between two beings . A ...
Page 186
... imagination . I had no repugnance then - why should I now have ? -to those little , lawless , azure - tinctured gro- tesques , that under the notion of men and women , float about , uncircumscribed by any element , in that world before ...
... imagination . I had no repugnance then - why should I now have ? -to those little , lawless , azure - tinctured gro- tesques , that under the notion of men and women , float about , uncircumscribed by any element , in that world before ...
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | x |
HeadpieceBlakesmoor | 5 |
The terror of luckless poacher | 13 |
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