Word: rosetti
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...corrections of Thackeray's are also on display one of a manuscript of his lecture on George II, the other of the Roundabout Papers. Other proofs corrected personally by the author include "The Surgeon's Daughter." by Scott, "The Amazing Marriage," by Meredith, "Ballads," by Rosetti, and a proof of "Bells and Pomegranates," by Browning, on which in addition to the usual annotations, he drew pictures in the margin illustrating his points...
...fought for Britain as a second lieutenant. Grandson of Painter Ford Madox Brown, "Fordie" was raised "to be a genius" by his philosopherfather, Dr. Franz Hueffer (long music critic of the London Times), by his grandfather and Aunt Lucy (sister-in-law of Poet Rosetti). Exposed from childhood to Fabianism, anarchism, aestheticism, etc., etc., he affects Toryism to annoy his relatives but looks "red" to the bourgeoisie. A Catholic, he sustains his family's reputation for heterodoxy by believing the Pope fallible, divorce moral. His friend, Edward Garnett, once came where Ford, in William Morris garb, drank country mead from...
...Fogg Museum has received as a loan from the daughters of the late Professor Charles Eliot Norton four paintings which are now on exhibition there. A water-color, entitled "Before the Battle," by Dante Gabriel Rosetti, is a brilliant and beautiful piece of color, and very interesting example of his art. There are also a "Madonna and Child," by Sano di Pietro, a "Venetian Scene," by Guardi, and "Risen Christ," by William Blake...
...hesitate, even after a considerate reading, to pronounce with much precision. But the purport is clear enough, the mood is undeniably poetic, and it touches the imagination. Like much modern poetry it has the virtue of bringing agreeable to mind its literary ancestors, in this case the sonnets of Rosetti. It is to be regretted, however, that besides Rosetti's habit of luxurious concrete visualization. Mr. Wheelock has not more of his music and subtle artistry...
...poet, George Herbert has no great force of continuance, but his writings are sincere, passionate, and intellectually interesting. In these three qualities, Cardinal Newman, Christina Rosetti, and Rudyard Kipling in his religious verse, come nearest to him. They all have the same sort of devotion, although to a less degree...