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Or it may be that instead of the bottle we have a little tin box, wedded to its cover, how often have we not exclaimed between clenched teeth, 'What man hath joined together man can pull asunder! and containing a kind of black mud, which we apply with an unfortunate rag or with a brush appropriately called the 'dauber. Having daubed, we polish, breathing our precious breath on the luminous surface for even greater luminosity.
On the other hand, compared with the marvel of achievement, the faultiness of method in each case sinks into a matter almost of indifference. Mr. Masefield gives us in Dauber a book of revelation.
You could have tea there, of course, and you were sure to meet people you knew and liked, but it was quite as much of a work-shop as any you could mention. He was not a dabbler in art, not a mere dauber of pigments: he was an ARTIST. People argued that because he was a thoroughbred and doomed to be rich, his conscious egotism would show itself at once in the demand for ridiculously high prices.
Unless the landscape painter is every bit as much a poet as the portrait painter, he will never be anything but a dauber." "Heaven help us!" cried the goldsmith. "So you, dear Edmund Lehsen, are going to " "You know me, then, sir, do you?" the painter cried. "Why shouldn't I?" said Leonhard.
Barnes, will ye, and fetch me from Mr. De Soto's room when you've finished. I leave you to Dabson's tender mercies. The saints preserve us! Look at the man's boots! Dabson, get out your brush and dauber first of all. He's been floundering in a bog." The jovial Irishman retired, leaving Barnes to be "done" by the silent, swift-moving valet.
And there, naturally, the question touched him personally. "I do not understand," said he, "how others toil and work with difficulty: a man who labours for months over a picture is a dauber, and no artist in my opinion; I don't believe he has any talent: genius works boldly, rapidly.
These varied experiences contributed color and vividness to his narrative verse. He has written several long narrative poems on unromantic subjects. Dauber contains some of his best lines and its story is the most poetic. This poem follows the fortunes of a poor youth who, wishing to be a painter of ships, went to sea to study his mode at first hand.
He pretended to be moved by a spirit of contradiction, asking each for proofs of his assertions, and their jests began again. "But, my dear boy, have you seen the Baroness' shawl?" asked Souchet. "Have you ever followed the girl when she patters off to church in the morning?" said Joseph Bridau, a young dauber in Gros' studio.
John Masefield new wine in old bottles back to Chaucer the self-conscious adventurer early education and experiences Dauber Mr. Masefleld's remarks on Wordsworth Wordsworth's famous Preface and its application to the poetry of Mr.
Tell me, child; am I plain, am I dowdy?" "You are magnificent," said Jane, squeezing her hand. "Carolus-Duran is only a dauber and a half-blind one at that!" Jane, after the first half-hour, had become quite habituated to her new and unaccustomed environment. Her attitude was neither too self-conscious nor too relaxed; and she never lost sight of the fact that she was thirty-three.
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