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When he had to design a house, as a rule he would draw first the hall and the drawing-room; as in olden days schoolgirls could only begin to dance by the fireplace, so his artistic ideas could only evolve from the hall and drawing-room.
He brought to his work the artistic qualities of both the Slav and the Jew, and in his 'Jekl: A Story of the Ghetto', he gave proof of talent which his more recent book of sketches 'The Imported Bride groom' confirms. He sees his people humorously, and he is as unsparing of their sordidness as he is compassionate of their hard circumstance and the somewhat frowsy pathos of their lives.
It follows not infrequently that the marks of cheapness or commonness are accepted as definitive marks of artistic unfitness, and a code or schedule of aesthetic proprieties on the one hand, and of aesthetic abominations on the other, is constructed on this basis for guidance in questions of taste.
But Shakespeare arrived at a mastery in this respect which sets him above all other poets. He is not only superior in degree, but he is also different in kind. In that less purely artistic sphere of style which concerns the matter rather than the form his charm is often unspeakable.
But I don't see why you need to come to a hotel when you have your apartment on Riverside and such an apartment! a veritable palace, filled with everything one's artistic taste cares for and furnished and decorated to suit yourself." "That's just why," answered his companion dryly.
Sharp says, "is not one of weighty message, but of artistic presentation." There seems to be no true contrast here. "The primary concern of the artist must be with his vehicle of expression" no not the primary concern. Exactly "thought" it may be. Now part of this same "thought" in Browning is the message. And therefore it is part of his "primary concern". "It is with presentment," says Mr.
The lights in such cases are arranged in the most artistic manner, and every thing is made to look as "interesting" as possible. A certain fashionable sexton always refuses to allow the female members of the family to follow their dead to the grave.
But, with his loafer's love for the more artistic and less strenuous way, he chose diplomacy first, the high card in the game the assumed attitude of success already attained. "You have a dollar," he said, loftily, but significantly in the tone that goes with the lighting of a cigar when the properties are at hand. "I have," said Mrs.
And he was conscious, with vexation, that he had undeniably flushed. "I mean, then, I am a woman, and I understand. Everything is as near what it should be as is possible while Patricia is seeing so much of we will call it the artistic temperament." Mrs. Pendomer shrugged. "But if I went on in that line you would believe I was jealous.
Motionless he sat there glaring, as it seemed to us, at some figure facing him. Instinctively we followed the direction of his gaze, but naught was visible to us save the artistic pattern upon the pink-tinted wall-paper opposite the foot of the bed. His lips were slightly parted, now. We saw them move as though he spoke rapidly, but no words came. And then, all at once, he smiled.
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