Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...jingle of the Mother-Goose School." At the risk of being included among the disciples of "the Mother-Goose School," we confess to having been utterly puzzled by the metre of the poem in question. It is, as the author tells us, "suggested by Mrs. Browning's 'A Portrait,'" which is written in stanzas of three verses each, each line consisting of our trochees. As the stanzas in "A Counterfeit Presentment" are arranged in the same manner, and as those verses which we succeeded in scanning are also trochaic dimeters, we supposed, naturally enough, that the author had aimed...
...portrait of Captain Cook has been presented to the University Boat Club...
...School has recently received Probst's "Portrait Study," a painting sent by Austria to Philadelphia, where it obtained a prize; also, some autotypes of Michael Angelo's frescos in the Sistine Chapel, a copy of the "Wrestlers" from a Florence gallery, and a collection of casts from the principal statues and busts in the Vatican have been added to the school's collection. Two prizes of $50 each, and two of $100 each, are annually given for the best specimens of drawing and painting by the students...
...life of Marcus Aurelius and a short account of his philosophy is prefixed to the Meditations. A portrait from a bust in the British Museum forms the frontispiece, and a medallion on the cover is taken from a coin of the time of Aurelius...
...latest thing in puffs is printed by the "Cascadilla Art Gallery" in Ithaca. It is a letter from "a prominent lady of Hartford," asking for two dozen more copies of her last portrait, which makes her "look as she hopes to look in HEAVEN...