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Portrayed on canvas, the picture would have looked unnatural, so brilliant were the hues thrown by the rising sun over the land-, or rather snow-scape.
And I, a mother am I to stand by and do nothing?" The picture of her son marching at the head of the crowd with the banner in his hands flashed before her mind. "Why should I lie idle when my son gives up his life for the sake of truth? I know now I know that he is working for the truth. It's the fifth year now that I live beside the woodpile. My heart has melted and begun to burn.
"Young man," said Porbus, observing that he was speechless, with his eyes fixed on a picture, "do not look at that too long, or you will fall into despair." It was the Adam of Mabuse, painted by that wayward genius to enable him to get out of the prison where his creditors had kept him so long.
"Then you must earn my friendship by doing what I ask of you. That picture must not be painted. You must tell Conway Dalrymple as his friend that he must cease to carry on such an intrigue in another man's house." "You would hardly call painting a picture an intrigue; would you?" "Certainly I would when it's kept a secret from the husband by the wife, and from the mother by the daughter.
“No, my dear, it is not a reproach; it is merely a picture of the world. You have the soul of a princess; you know nothing about rats.
But the Dean's laughable history of the pompous antics of the Lilliputians is a picture which describes the constitution of our present administration who are managing the critical affairs of the nation so ill that disaster is inevitable in many forms, seen and unseen.
He looked at me almost anxiously, as if something depended on my answer. "Bore me? Oh, no: I shall love to go there," I assured him. "Why? What do you know of Carlyle?" "Not much," I had to confess, "But there were three books of his my father had, which I've read. And there's a picture of him still in the library." "Which books? What picture?"
The missionaries, who had brought a highly-colored picture of the Last Judgment, called the Indians to council and displayed it before them; while Allouez, who spoke Algonquin, harangued them on hell, demons, and eternal flames. They listened with open ears, beset him night and day with questions, and invited him and his companion to unceasing feasts.
On the crowded wall, forming the background against which is seen the model's charming profile, is a picture which obviously is a copy of the painting of La Fuite en Egypte by Breughel.
When her father came to send her to her rest and asked whether, as a motherless child, she intended to trust his love and care or to choose another mother who was not of this world, she answered quietly with a loving glance at the picture of St. Clare, "As you wish, and she commands."
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