Word: artiste
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Carlyle was essentially a man of feeling and he was one of the greatest poets of the age. He was a poet in conception and an artist in expression. His literary style was a creation of his very own, rugged, disjointed, uncouth even, but bringing out excellently the thoughts which possessed...
...when Prof. Francis J. Child introduced Mr. E. Charlton Black, late of the University of Edinburgh. The subject for discussion was: "Shakspere; the Man." Recent talk about Shakspere, -Mr. Black began, has lead me to go over again the slender story of his life. He was a poet, an artist and a dramatist; the author of some forty works. Mr. Ruskin in his second Lecture on Art at Oxford said: "The highest thing that Art can do is to set before us the figure of a man." It is very proper then that we should turn to Shakspere, the glory...
...quiet stately actor. His favorite parts were those of the Ghost, in Hamlet, and Old Adam, in As You Like It. He was, in fine, "a fantastical fellow of dark corners." He was devoted to his sacred art but the author disappeared in the work. Ruskin has said: "An artist has done nothing until he has concealed himself." If the converse be true, Shakspere is truly a master...
...Tuesday an artist made several sketches of the batteries and candidates for the nine, practising in the cage. They are to appear in Harper's Weekly...
...World's Fair two bronze castings. These castings are to represent masculine figures, ideally perfect in their physical proportins. The plans have not yet been perfected and as the scheme is still a visionary one nothing definite can be said about it. W. C. Noble the famous portrait statue artist, who now has a studio in Cambridge, will prepare the figures...