Word: poses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...this a creditable part for this nation to play? The mission of this country if it has one is not to pose...
...Anthony Pose, Foxcroft Club; after Tree exercises...
...character of a lordly lover. She disguises herself as a peddler boy, then as Dorcas, a village beauty and wife of an innkeeper, and finally as the daughter of an English Lord. In all these three characters Miss Hall appears to great advantage. Having the physique and pose which will set off any costume, there is peculiar interest attached to her appearance in her different disguises...
...draughts man than a painter, he helped in the formation of Raphael's style. Perigino, however, was the real forerunner of Raphael. His subjects are said to have bodies belonging to the Renaissance, but souls of the middle ages. His paintings are known for their grace of pose and the fervor of faith which they express. But even as early as Perigino the relgious inspiration was passing away, he painted faces just as he saw them in life, not as religious fervor would imagine them...
Society now assumes that if a man is to pose as a preacher in abstinence he at least must be an abstainer himself. Sixty years ago it was the custom to drink free y at meeting of nearly every sort and it was no disgrace for a young man to be seen drunk, yet how different it is at the present time. A man is ashamed of himself if found intoxicated...