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His pupils spread his praise, and so many new ones came that he took the old quarters of Swanenburch. In Sixteen Hundred Thirty-one, there came to him a young man who was to build a deathless name for himself Gerard Dou. Then to complete the circle came Joris van Vliet, whose reputation as an engraver must ever take a first rank.
I mad the best retraite the confusion of our people would suffer, and I am now laying with my Lord Rosse. The toun of Streven drew up as we was making our retrait, and thoght of a pass to cut us off, but we took courage and fell to them, made them run, leaving a dousain on the place. What these rogues will dou yet I know not, but the contry was flocking to them from all hands.
Bon dou, but I'm glad to see you home again!" "I'd like a few to trim Robin up with." "I'll see to it. It's good to see you back, Phil. Your mother didn't say much, but she was sore at heart, I know, though she did put a bold face on it." "I know.... You won't mind my running away now, Uncle George? You see " "Aw, I know! Gallop away back, my boy.
It is a triptych, an Adoration, in which the three kings, the Queen of Sheba before Solomon, and Herod participate. A brilliantly tinted work this, which once hung in the Escorial, and, mirabile dictu, attributed to Lucas van Leyden. No need to speak of the later Dutch and Flemish school, Teniers, Ostade, Dou, Pourbus, and the minor masters.
Bimi come to der house, but dere was no light in his eye. It was all put away, cunning so cunning und he fetch der girl her slippers, und Bertran turn to me und say, "Dost dou know him in nine months more dan I haf known him in twelve years? Shall a child stab his fader? I haf fed him, und he was my child. Do not speak this nonsense to my wife or to me any more."
"Of what does that remind you, Been?" "I know," said the poor girl; "I remember what I learnt at school;" and then in her broken English, she repeated the words: "As a hen gaderet her chickens under her wings, so would I have gaderd de, but dou wouldest not." At this moment, Been's husband came in.
He vas doubled into big knots, und den undoubled, und den redoubled mooch worse dan pefore, und he frothed. I vas mit him, saying, "Reingelder, dost dou know me?" but he himself, der inward gonsciousness part, was peyond knowledge, und so I know he vas not in bain. Den he wrop himself oop in von dremendous knot und den he died all alone mit me in Uraguay.
So under their hands the light presents a thousand fancies, contrasts, enigmas, and effects of shine and shade as unexpected as they are curious. Prominent in this field, among many others, were Gherard Dou, the painter of the famous picture of the four candles, and Rembrandt, the great wonder-working superhuman enlightener.
"And what kind of things do they say, Aunt Jeanne?" "Oh, all kinds of things. He's making a fine streak of fat " "So much the better for him." "Maybe! But, mon dou, when a man gets along too quickly, the others will talk, you know. They say he has the devil's own luck in all he undertakes. He has three of the fastest chasse-marées in the Islands, and they say he's never lost a cargo yet.
"Nay, nefer shague your gory locks at me, Dou canst not say I did it." I heard Pinto say those very words, and sitting on the porcelain stool I saw, dimly at first, then with an awful distinctness a ghost an EIDOLON a form A HEADLESS MAN seated with his head in his lap, which wore an expression of piteous surprise. At this minute, Mr.
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