Word: spinner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...twenty years Romney was the acknowleged rival of Sir Joshua Reynolds. In 1782 his friend Charles Greville brought Emma Hart, afterwards Lady Hamilton, to sit for her portrait. Of this famous woman Romney painted not less than twenty-three portraits in various poses. His picture of her as a spinner is his masterpiece. It is a miracle of simplicity, soft color, and bewitching grace...
...wind that does not send a thrill to the brain along some one of these subtile intellectual fibres stretched seemingly at random in every direction, yet bound one to the other by flying buttresses of almost invisible association, and coming together in the middle point where sits the alert spinner himself...
Hollis Street-The Kendals in It was a Dream. The Money Spinner...
...everything which they undertake, the Iron Master not excepted. The play will be repeated tomorrow and Saturday evenings and Wednesday afternoon. Wednesday evening and Saturday afternoon The Queen's Shilling will be given, and Thursday and Friday evenings the double bill of It Was a Dream and The Money Spinner...