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She now takes her muff, which, to the uninitiated eye, has nothing to distinguish it, outwardly, from thousands of other muffs, but which is a master-piece of ingenious contrivance. It is covered with any kind of fur, just as honest muffs are, with the significant exception that, instead of being padded with cotton, the fur rests upon a framework of wire.
These are astonishing compositions for their vast extent, the number and beauty of the figures and portraits, and the variety and truth of the colouring. Nothing in painting can be richer. N deg. 4. N deg. This capital picture is not in the catalogue. N deg. 32. This master-piece is worthy of TITIAN. Petronilla. This large picture was executed for St.
"Indeed!" said the knight, keeping down his wrath with difficulty. "I should like to be acquainted with this master-piece of poetry! May we ask the name of this distinguished person?" "It must be Vicars, or Withers, at least," said the feigned page. "No, sir," replied Everard, "nor Drummond of Hawthornden, nor Lord Stirling neither.
"This is a very precious gem," he said. "The medallion is gold, and the work on the miniature is exquisite. It is a master-piece the colour equals the design. The mouth is marvellously rendered. Mengs or Liotard could not have done better. At what do you value this work of art?" "You are more of a connoisseur than I. I will leave it to your own valuation."
Perhaps we shall meet some children on the journey; and it'll be so nice for you to pop this out of your pocket, and give it to them to blow." "So it will, Mercy, I declare. That 'ud be real nice. You're a master-piece for thinkin' o' things." And, easily diverted as a child, the old woman dropped the whistle into her deep pocket, and, forgetting all her tears, returned to her packing.
Grotius's conjectures were but too true: and all that he and his friends could do to procure his return was absolutely fruitless. IX. He was now at the height of his glory by the prodigious success of his admirable book Of the rights of war and peace, which a celebrated writer justly styles a master-piece. He began it in 1623 at Balagni, and in 1625 it was published at Paris.
Granted that, if there is, he must be above his highest creature, but is there such a being? "The ground", says the Rev. Charles Voysey, "on which our belief in God rests is man. Man, parent of Bibles and Churches, inspirer of all good thoughts and good deeds. Man, the master-piece of God's thought on earth. Man, the text-book of all spiritual knowledge.
This master-piece was still to be solidly applied on a new ground: for that, it was necessary to paste paper over it again, detach it from the temporary gauze which had been put on the impression, add a new coat of oxyde of lead and oil, apply to it a gauze rendered very supple, and on the latter, in like manner done over with a preparation of lead, a raw cloth, woven all in one piece, and impregnated, on its exterior surface, with a resinous substance, which was to confine it to a similar canvass fixed on the stretching-frame.
His figure of Alexander, in the character of young Ammon, is described as his master-piece. Such was the expression with which the hand grasped the thunder-bolt, that it seemed actually to start from the pannel. The expression and force of character given to the whole, was equally marvellous.
Though not members, it may be, of our peculiar family, yet the poorest, the humblest, the most wretched, is a human being "the master-piece of His handiwork" and, as such, demands our aid and comfort as far as practicable. Life has been compared to a river. Aye, and beneath its murky waters lurk countless reefs and shoals.
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