Word: friend
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...feel with absolute certainty that Hamlet lived, and that he died. There is perhaps no other character in Shakespeare, with the exception of Sir John Falstaff, whom we can not picture as being even now alive. But the death of Hamlet we feel as we do that of a friend...
...Rome and Venice. On his return to London Romney rented a fine house in Cavendish Square. The Duke of Richmond came to sit for his portrait. The picture was a brilliant success and in twenty years Romney was the acknowleged rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds. In 1782 his friend Charles Greville brought Emma Hart, afterwards Lady Hamilton, to sit for her portrait. Of this famous woman Romney painted not less than twenty-three portraits in various poses. His picture of her as a spinner is his masterpiece. It is a miracle of simplicity, soft color, and bewitching grace...
Gainsborough, said Mr. Ward, was in many respects the equal and in some the superior of Sir Joshua Reynolds; but only as an artist can he be compared to his great contemporary. Sir Joshua was a gentle courtier, the friend of all the prominent men of his time, and as president of the Royal Academy held the highest position an artist could hold. Gainsborough, on the other hand, was quick-tempered, rather illiterate, and chose his friends among a Bohemian set of actors and musicians...
...Gainsborough left Bath and moved to London, a migration which was due to the well-meant but intolerable persecution of his friend Fickness. At London he was more successful than ever. The queen invited him to paint her portrait. He did it so well that he was asked to paint the portraits of all the royal family. In 1784 he sent a full length picture of the three princesses to the Royal Academy, which he requested to be hung on a line with the eye. This the officials refused to do, and the matter ended by his withdrawing the picture...
...your work, live your lives so that the people in every community where your lives are to be lived and your work is to be done; shall say of you - 'Look at that man: He is a faithful worker, unselfish neighbor, loyal friend; a patriotic citizen, a righteous man - and all this, not in spite of the fact, but all the more because of the fact, that he was the longest punter or the hardest tackler on the famous '94 team of the University of Pennsylvania...