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The Court, still mindful of the sweetness, grace, and charm of Henrietta of England, could not contemplate without horror and disgust the fearful caricature I have just described. Young pregnant women after the Queen's unfortunate experience were afraid to look at the Princess Palatine, and wished to be confined before they reappeared at Court.
A man was blundering down the hillside toward them, an easel on his shoulder. As he came closer his face seemed strangely familiar to the young man. Where had he seen it? Then he recollected in a flash. It was the face Albert had drawn in caricature on the stable-door the face of Ally Sloper.
These are accomplished painters of established reputation, and they of course avoided the old system of caricature, the old forced humour. But we doubt whether their designs are so intimately associated with the persons in the stories as are the designs of Mr. Browne. We never can have any Mr. Micawber but Phiz's indescribably jaunty Micawber. His Mr.
It is a lesson to fill out the skin, even with bran or straw, if there be nothing better anything, in fact, is preferable to allowing the shrinkage which ends in this wretched caricature. During my stay at Glass Town I was fortunate enough to make the acquaintance of the Rev. Messrs. Walker and Preston, of the Baraka Mission.
how creation took place without a conscious Creator. All their fancied solutions of this hopeless puzzle have one feature in common a family likeness which the wickedest wit finds it difficult to caricature.
For a moment it seemed to her as if she watched herself in caricature, distorted perhaps by a mirror with a slight flaw in it. "My husband was obliged to dine out to-night; unfortunately. I hope he'll be here in a moment, but he may be kept, as there are to be some dreadful speeches afterwards.
'Well, said he, 'now that the House of Commons has become a bear-garden, and t'other House a waxwork show, and the intellect and culture of the country are leaving politics to dummies and cads, how can the artistic mind condescend to caricature the political world a world that has not only ceased to be intelligent, but has even ceased to be funny?
The visitor had swaggered up the Rue Valette, conscious that some turned to look at him as a man to be feared and respected, yet his manner changed as he passed through the alley, the swagger lessened with each step he mounted, and when Latour opened the door to him, the visitor was full of respect, almost cringing respect. Here was a strange caricature of equality!
Next day the incident was exposed in print, and they began getting up a collective protest against Varvara Petrovna's disgraceful conduct in not having immediately turned the general out. In an illustrated paper there appeared a malignant caricature in which Varvara Petrovna, Stepan Trofimovitch, and General Drozdov were depicted as three reactionary friends.
Therese raised her hands to her own head. "True, the very same towering absurdity. I never will wear it again, mother." "It is very fashionable, and you will become accustomed to it." "No, I shall never be reconciled to such a caricature. Now that I can choose for myself, I shall attend less to fashion than to fitness in my dress. But I have seen mankind let me see nature and heaven.
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