Word: rossetti
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Angel vanished into the breath of a little spring wind, that dawn at Nazareth.-(St. Luke I, 26:38; and the famed painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti...
...York State. * Each characteristic line, loop, arch, whorl of a set of fingerprints is numbered. The set is classified, can then be decoded for identification. †Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Browning, George Meredith, Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Ruskin, Kipling, Conrad, Hugh Waipole, Thomas Hardy, Walter de la Mare, Rupert Brooke, Henry James...
...says William Michael Rossetti, "Masaccio was living in Florence with his mother, then for the second time a widow, and with his younger brother, a painter of no distinction; he possessed nothing but debts. Before the end of the next year, he disappeared from Florence, going, as it would appear, to Rome, to evade the importunities of creditors. Immediately afterwards, in 1429, when his age was 27 or 28, he was reported dead...
...penurious naturalist, had been "privately educated in Devonshire", had slaved over solemn religious tomes in his invalid mother's library, tutoring himself afterwards by. night when he was a young curator at the British Museum, until his scholarship and verses won him the friendship of Poets Swinburne and Rossetti, the comradeship of Robert Louis Stevenson, the hand of Painter Alma-Tadema's sister-in-law. Preposterous ignorance. And the old gentleman, who 30 years ago wrote sadly of his desuetude, continued: "He (the modern young man) is always playing games or motoring or dancing and gives no time...
...years, the stripling Hamlet has followed Rossetti's advice to study painting. Among his comrades at the Royal Academy is a shy, ruddy-faced youth in rough homespun and thick boots. This man's eyes can "snap and sparkle . . . beam with sympathy." His laugh is infectious. He has just written a book and asks the stripling (Johnston Forbes-Robertson) to take it to his journalist-father for criticism. The book is Erewhon; the shy man, Samuel Butler...