... the painter's fancy were possessed with the right feeling of the subject. In that, indeed, lies the great charm of art: the spot itself may be radiant with beauty, the forms and effects ol nature lovely in themselves; but if the painter's imagination be ...

... disease. In the first stage of the disease medical treatment is frequently successful, in the second stage too often of no avail. The first stage, diarrhoea, or mere looseness of the bowels, may be of only a few hours' duration, or may ...

... detailed, all comparison between the state progress of the fine arts in Birmingham and Manchester would be worse than ridiculous. A general meeting of the subscribers and members of the Society of Arts takes place this day (Saturday); when understand the regulations ...

... thoroughly truthful, ever displayed by an actor. With all this art, too, she has the greater art of disguising it; she would please even an adult who had never witnessed a previous stage representation, a class of people who cannot understand the excitement ...

... her action; then turning from him, but still keeping her back to the audience, as she slowly glided drooping up the stage, an effect of grief was produced far beyond a stream of tears in the usual style of stage weeping; she left us to our own imagination—a ...

... turn off at a moment's notice.'' S r George Murray 'was described as acting 'as art itfe'rior officer titder his old commantder; Lord v :Vherdeet as all excessively duill! mai, 'ho had . :t'h setise to hide his own Nvant of ideas unridr tite I :t-L kof ...

... sleep, to awaken again with new modifications of being; so though intervals of motives to action may exist, or may remain unnoticed and forgotten, we know they may be dormant, but not dead, and will return in regular and perpetual cycles of fresh causes and ...

... thirteenth, we had Roman art gradually going to decay, partly because the artist could not imitate the old art, and partly from the sprout* ings of some invention; the thirteenth century, however, we had a new, a European art The Gothic archiiecture was ...

... familiarise the eye and the feelings witk what is mentally great in art, was a fine idea We know not Hie extant such influence upon those who are pondering pictured thoughts: we may anticipate many a spirit of beauty ttarlfog up from the firesides of ...

... interesting matter, and written in style of clearness not often met with ; that he who runs may read! The translation by Mrs. Kerr does her great credit. Let hope that she may again be found in the field of German literature, an able coadjutor in company with ...

... individual suffering where p thkhard task-master. Charles Swain takes other ground, - egance, refinement, the beautiful in art and nature appear W be the sources of his in- spiration; thoetgh Ave find occasional evialence of a ponver that would be all-potent ...

... ideal world of art those who were, alas! too much divided iu the world of reality? Should not art be a reconciler? Is it not her glory and beauty that she acknowledges as children all who serve her faithfully? How can we conceive of art as thus existing ...