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...sides of it, but should be placed nearer the side of the lot, with the larger part on one side of the house. This will give much better light and will add materially to the artistic effect. The result produced by a neglect of this rule may be seen in every town, in the houses belonging to people of moderate means, who are unable to employ good architects...
...nature abhors a vacuum, but she has, if possible, a still greater abhorrence of the straight line, and the picturesque lies really in the breaking of the straight line. In fact, nature is never picturesque unless she has been used and discarded by man,- she may be sublime as seen in primeval forests, but she lacks just that subtle charm which gives this quality...
...landscape painting one thing is to be remembered, nature never makes any errors; and if a painter follows her closely and truly, without trying to produce her effects by tricks, the beauty and truth of his picture will be seen and appreciated by every...
...matter of inviting Mr. Henry Irving to speak before the students some time during his stay in Boston. The suggestion was then made that the invitation should come from the students, preferably from some club. As the outcome of this communication, the officers of the New Harvard Union have seen Mr. Irving and have received his promise that he will address the students some forenoon or afternoon between the twelfth and fifteenth of March, during which period he will be again in Boston...
...crimes which his characters do not commit might be regarded as not worth committing; but the play, for all its hideousness, is redeemed by the imagination and poetry it contains, Webster does not excel in his plots and characters, but his dramatic situations are very effective, and once seen are not soon to be forgotten...