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Honoria's hospitality, Blount fell to contrasting the strong, large-featured face of the Mission Hills ranchman with that of Reynolds, the opposition candidate. Though he was himself on the corporation campaigning staff, Blount could not help admitting that the comparison was not favorable to Reynolds.
Reynolds, who visited him in Paris, noted the change, and describes how he found the artist at work on a large picture without studies or models of any kind, and on expressing his surprise, was told by Boucher that he did in earlier days use them, but had dispensed with them for many years.
Augustine Birrell's Obiter Dicta . This essay would have pleased Thackeray. One of the finest epitaphs in literature is that pronounced over the supposedly dead body of Falstaff by Prince Hal "I could have better spared a better man." Northcote was an artist and writer, who had been an assistant in the studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Circumstances which led to the Establishment of the Royal Academy. First Exhibition of the Works of British Artists. The Departure of Regulus finished, and taken to Buckingham House. Anecdote of Kirby. The Formation of the Royal Academy. Anecdote of Reynolds. The Academy instituted. The King, at the period when he was pleased to take Mr.
He had a small nugget, which he had carried as a good-luck pocket-piece for many months; this he sold, and at last his revolvers went, and then he seemed helpless. No word from Reynolds came, and the worst of it was, if the money did come it would not now be enough to carry him back.
Petito had conceived that her DIPLOMACY might be turned to account; that in her character of an ambassadress, as Lady Dashfort's double, by the aid of Iceland moss in chocolate, flattery properly administered; that, by bearing with all her DEAR Mr. Reynolds's ODDNESSES and ROUGHNESES, she might in time that is to say, before he made a new will become his dear Mrs. Reynolds! Mrs.
"I don't think you need to have me tell you," he said, with a sneer. "I don't think Mr. Reynolds is very prudent to employ a boy convicted of dishonesty." "Do you believe me guilty, Mr. Ford?" asked our hero, calmly. "The evidence against you is overwhelming. My mother ought to have you arrested." "The person who stole the bonds may be arrested."
Reynolds repeated, as he stopped and looked far away upon some towering mountain peaks which just then were visible through an opening among the trees. "Take the steam-engine for example. Repress the power, and what do you get? Destruction. But give that power expression, and how beneficial it becomes. So it is with man. There is a mighty power within him.
But by a lucky chance he came across an old Injun, who had once been a great medicine-man, an' was a mighty good hand at makin' disguises. So he fixed up Redmond in sich a way that no one could tell but what he was a real old sourdough prospector who had spent most of his life lookin' fer gold." A half suppressed exclamation from Reynolds caused Samson to turn quickly in his direction.
I also put my hair up under my stovepipe hat and galloped past the command, to all appearances fresh from a New York ballroom. "Look at the dude! Look at the dude!" they shouted as I rode among them. Paying no attention to them, I galloped up and overtook General Reynolds. Saluting him, I said: "General, I have come to report for duty."
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