Word: courtiers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...pretended to think, that the lighting never exactly reproduced the marvelous tint of blue for which the grotto of Capri is famed. Lights of every sort were tried. Finally enormous arc lights were installed, and in the confined space of the grotto workmen tending them were almost roasted. A courtier protested. "Stop!" commanded King Ludwig, "I don't wish to know how the light is made, I only care to see the effect. It is not right...
...fade, footsteps pass; Millet's "Angelus," the bent peasants in their luminous field; the perfumed floridity of Nicholas Poussin's "Orpheus and Eurydice," Jacques Louis David's capable "Portrait of Pius VII"; "Renaul and Armide" one of the classic posturings of François Boucher, the courtier who painted ceilings with the grace of miniatures; and "1814" by Ernest Meissonier, filled with the pomp of banners, stations, mustaches, and death...
...this another instance of the extreme democracy of the frontier spirit? Or is it a revulsion of feeling among European settlers against the observed Ethiopian craze for personal adornment? The urge for decoration moves both the European courtier and the dusky noble. The Capetown celebrity, who has seen the necks of native chiefs hung with alarm-clocks and frying-pans, may yearn with less avidity for the Order of the Garter or of the Bath. The gap between medals and tatooing is no greater than that between Picadilly and the jungle...
...Johnston Second Angel Miss Constance Templeton First Shepherd Whitney Cromwell '26 Second Shepherd O. L. Loring '26 Elyson Miss Mary Leonard Mahal Miss Frances Chase Jaspar H. S. Smith '25 Antechoir Murray Pease '26 Balthazar D. W. Keyes '26 Herod D. L. Dickson '27 Messenger Lendon Snedecker '25 First Courtier G. R. Russell '27 Second Courtier P. R. Hepburn '25 Clerks...
...Johnston Second Angel Miss Constance Templeton First Shepherd Whitney Cromwell '26 Second Shepherd O. L. Loring '26 Elyson Miss Mary Leonard Mahai Miss Frances Chase Jaspar H. S. Smith '25 Melchior Murray Pease '26 Balthazar H. W. Keyes '26 Herod D. L. Dickson '27 Messenger Lendon Snedeker '25 First Courtier H. S. Weber '25 Second Courtier P. R. Hepburn '25 Clerks G. A. Millikan '27, R. G. Rosegrant '26, Ross Wilkins...