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Judging from those models of literary elegance and Christian charity, the San Francisco weekly society sheets with which I whiled away that infernal train journey you have been fêted like visiting royalty, photographed by the foremost in his art which would appear to be the equivalent of painted for the Academy and your family history seems to have been written up from old files, with even more picturesqueness than accuracy "
'Just so just so, Sir John, said Bagwax, feeling that every word spoken to the lawyer renewed his own hopes of going out to Sydney, but feeling also that Sir John would be wrong, very wrong, if he subjected his client to so unnecessarily prolonged a detention in the Cambridge county prison. 'They do keep a book which would be quite conclusive. I could have the pages photographed.
They photographed the author sitting in his garden; they photographed him in his park, mounted on his mare, Speedwell; and they photographed him in his motor-car. Then they came in and looked at the library and photographed that, with Mr. Waddington sitting in it at his writing-table. "I suppose, sir," Mr. Pyecraft said, "you'd wish it taken from one end to show the proportions?"
Patty did not seem to care much to converse, or even to dance, but wandered around in a blissful state, enjoying the picturesque scene. "Probably I shall never see anything like this again," she thought to herself, "and I just want to gaze at it until it is photographed on my mind forever. Oh, won't it be fun to tell Nan and papa about it!" Just then she saw Henri Labesse approaching her.
It was the picture of a vapid youth, fair-haired, with thin moustache elaborately trained, and thinner whiskers a fribble that gave half its little mind to its collar, and the other half to its boots. Such images are photographed in a flash of lightning on the sensitive brain of youth, and are naturally more often false guesses than true ones.
Hammond has been a traveller, like his lordship, I made sure he'd have been photographed in knickerbockers and every other kind of attitude. Mary had not refrained from asking for her lover's portrait; and he had told her that he had carefully abstained from having his countenance reproduced in any manner since his fifteenth year, when he had been photographed at his mother's desire.
The couple photographed were human beings, but intellectually they were no more than animals with a slight edge in vocabulary. It made James Holden sick at heart to read the article and to realize that such filth and ignorance could still go on.
He must understand that the photoplay is not a photographed drama, but that it is controlled by psychological conditions of its own.
It is said that, as a contrast between the old world and the new, few scenes in England have been more often photographed than this. Passing the blacksmith's forge, and mounting under the shade of trees, the road leads to a lodge, the grounds of Cockington Court, and the church which very nearly touches it.
In 1875 the writer saw and photographed, on that part of the wall of Peking used by the Mandarins as an observatory, the six instruments handsomely designed by Father Verbiest, copied from the instruments of Tycho Brahe, and embellished with Chinese dragons and emblems cast on the supports.
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