... Madrazo in exchange for the Spanish colour and tact in toning which their school seems altogether to have repudiated. Seriously speaking, the French painter possesses these qualities in a higher degree than anyone since Velasquez, and the new Spanish school ...

... quaint appearance. In a speech of some length, he describes what he imagines, or rather what he feels, a poet to be; as he speaks, the actor's voice rings with a new tenderness, his face takes a new expression of mingled exultation and sadness; a sense ...

... nature. To speak of one of the greatest thinkers that France or any other country has produced as the profligate and sentimental infidel Rousseau, is a needlessly vulgar mistake. Some of the state- ments are ludicrously reckless, as speaking of Robespierre ...

... regrets the remembrance of a purer passion, became identified with Wagner's artistic purification. We are of course not speaking of dry detailed symbolism in the ordinary sense; but at the same time it cannot for a moment be denied that Wagner has succeeded ...

... do not exist even in the retina), he persists in speaking of what is always called a white surface as a (white) surface. It would be hard on the thorough-going idealist to compel him invariably to speak of a simple object, as, for example, a tree, as ...

... heroical. Considering that the ladies and gentlemen belonging to that body have to sing in six different operas every week-not to speak of rehearsals, Floral Hall concerts,and morningperformances ?? Palace-it is indeed astonishing how they had found leisure to ...

... or a pope.' Further, Dr. Abbott shows that this was the construction which Bacon was disposed to put upon his own life. He speaks of himself as one born to be useful to mankind, and specially moulded by nature for the contemplation of the truth. He ...

... on the night of the vote of censure, with the motto from Wordsworth, Thou hast great allies. While Sir Robert Peel was speaking on that night, the same senator was heard to murmur softly to himself the lines of a clever poem, which appeared in Punch ...

... our remarks, the educational efficiency of the Royal Academy of Music evinced on this occasion, we should say that, broadly speaking, the aim of the teachers seems to be sound musical train- ing rather than technical bravura. With this we are prepared to ...

... believe that his admission of the miserable condition of the proletariat is a mere trick of argumentative candour. He evidently speaks from the heart when he says that he sympathises with them in every fibre of his frame, that he is ready to paint their ...

... scene at the tomb was, however, the finest of all. The way in which he held the audience for minutes, as it seemed, without speaking a word, in breathless observation of his movements, was a great histrionic feat; and the movements themselves, as he crawled ...