Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Most of the innumerable political and social essays which Bulwer produced were on topics of the day, and their interest waned with the questions of which they treated. His "Art in Fiction" and "Present State of Poetry" contain much that is true and wholesome...
...will be understood that the collection makes no moneyed profit from any of these sales. Its object is simply to foster the growing taste in the community for the higher forms of Art. Beauty cannot be known till seen; till the mind, indeed, is brought into somewhat familiar contact with it. By making beautiful objects easily accessible, the College may hope that its students will soon prefer these to the inane works which now decorate too many of their rooms. The keen interest which many of you are already showing is, I assure you, a source of sincere satisfaction...
...money as for the pleasure of my society. I have known him come into my room, fill his brier-wood pipe from my jar of green seal, seat himself comfortably before the fire of his own coal, and enter into lively conversation with me on politics, literature, or art. His pipe out, he would take his departure with never a word in regard to his "memorandum." When, at a thoughtless moment, I paid him, he seemed surprised at the fact, and mournful that he was deprived of further pretext for visiting...
...more complete in the works of one particular master, a great many more numerous, and one, even in this country, more costly; but we believe it is not overstepping the limits of our authority to say that, as an aid to the history and study of the graphic art of all periods and schools, it has few superiors anywhere, and none in this country. Indeed, it can hardly be otherwise, made as it was by a man of such cultivation, judgment, and taste as Mr. Gray, who had devoted his whole life to the study of engraving as an art...
...give every one that wishes an idea of the collection, and to cultivate the taste for art more generally, the Curator is now having a few of the principal engravings heliotyped (a process superior to photography, because an indestructible copy is produced), and, should the copies prove satisfactory, they will soon be for sale at Sever's. Students can have them at cost, - twenty-five cents to a dollar, we believe, - so it is within the power of any one to possess a Raphael or Rembrandt for a mere trifle. If this venture prove successful, other copies will follow...