Word: patricianism
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...under the guidance of Professor Pol de Mont, director of the Royal Museum at Antwerp. Among them are such masterpieces as Hubert van Eyck's "Madonna in a Church," Jan van Eyck's Triptych of the "Madonna with St. Michael and St. Katherine," Rogier van der Weyden's "young Patrician Lady," and Quenten Metsys's "Mary Magdalen...
That Carlyle ever came to be a disciple to Goethe has appeared strange to many for they seemed to the casual observer to be widely separated; Goethe was a patrician, the favorite of a count, whileCarlyle was more a plebeian. The most serious obstacle to Carlyle's worshipping Goethe, was found not in the writings of Goethe but in Goethe's life itself...
...said: In that period between the dynastic conquest and popular revolt in Germany, the lives of both Goethe and Schiller are principally laid, the one a patrician and of high rank, the other a plebian of poor parents. Goethe was born at Frankfort on the Main, August 28, 1749. His father was not very rich and had a meagre education which he gained mostly from travel; his mother was quite different, for she was a woman of broad intellect and a kind heart, and seemed to the young poet more like a companion than a mother. When only ten years...
Lady Agnes, the fory horse-power behind the throne; Royal Charlie's patrician mash. Pray for him, C. H. Minot...
...reveries, her people crowd our conveyances to Boston, her factories disgust us. Her mucker roams in freedom through our sacred yard, her maiden robs the freedom of the student's heart. The Port is of the nineteenth century, shoppy; we who feel - to use a vulgarism - the ancient and patrician oats of our two hundred and thirty-ninth year (Freshmen of the present year especially) will no longer bear the plebeian yoke...