Word: portraits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Prof. John F. Weir, of Yale, has printed a portrait group of the "Theological Faculty of Yale College," upon which a New York critic delivers the sage observation that it "cannot be overpraised in its aims, but must be rather severely criticised in its results...
...children get into the bath-room before him in the morning, they invariably use his wash-rag, and the consequence is that Phillpot's heart leaps for joy whenever he visits strangers and has a wash-rag all to himself; and then Phillpot has been strongly impressed by the portrait of Mrs. Butterfield over the mantel-piece in the spare-room and had taken pains to speak of it in the hearing of Mrs. Butterfield, who had taken more than usual pains with her saleratus biscuits and coffee, and the Rev. Jenkyns Phillpot had been more than usually "thankful...
...portrait of Mrs. Butterfield and her younger brother, at the respective ages of ten and six, hangs over the mantel-piece. Mrs. Butterfield is represented in low neck and short sleeves, with one hand sliding from her brother's shoulder, and the other, abnormally developed, hanging almost to the hem of her skirt. Both figures look unsteady and unhappy, as though they had been trying to see which could hold its breath longest and were both about ready to give...
...latest books, to abandon, for the future, discussions in politics and theology and devote himself to literature. There is an interesting and appreciative, if not a brilliant, sketch of Mr. Arnold, in the April Century, by Andrew Lang, and the number has, as a frontispiece, an admirable portrait of Mr. Arnold, drawn after the painting by C. F. Watts. The following sentences occur in the article: "But the Greek drama was, as Mr. Arnold recognizes in his admirable preface to "Merope," the child of peculiar social and theatrical conditions. We cannot, even at Harvard or Balliol, hope to bring back...
...again, if, as Epicurus says : The origin and root of all good is in the pleasure of eating, we may not only get a natural portrait but a portrait of man at his best, i. e., when happiest...