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Where had been seen such Pheasants as these, the fragile, the exquisite, the rarely perfect? Even the Australian Pheasant, rarest of all, lay here before him, with its marvellous pencillings of rose and carmine and gray. Mr.
Emily! how good, how noble, how beautiful, how perfect she is!" Thackeray's satire is all the more powerful in that it is directed against foibles more than against vices. Many a reader who will reject Swift's portrait of man as a libel, cannot but feel a twinge at Thackeray's delicate pencillings.
At that time these younger men were in Europe; and we took wonderfully to them, and particularly to Willis's 'First Impressions, and 'Pencillings by the Way. To me they were authentic, and opened the inside of English literary society and life, and I came to like him.
On the burned façades of houses, trellised fruit-trees clung, some dead mere black pencillings sketched on brick or plaster but now and then one was living still, like a beautiful young Mazeppa, bound to a dead steed. So we arrived at Noyon, less than two hours by car from Compiègne. The nearness of it to the heart of France struck me suddenly.
From a distance the flowers on a hill slope will pour down to the sea in such a torrent of hues that you might think the arch of the rainbow you saw there had collapsed in the sun and was now rills and cascades. The grove of palms holding their plumes above a white village might be delicate pencillings on the yellow sheet of desert. The heat is a balm.
"A Faëry Surprise-Party" is as delicate as are Jack Frost's pencillings, through which all the events of the story curiously move. "New-Year's Day in the Garden" has equal delicacy, and even greater beauty. In all the stories there is a humanizing of all elements introduced, even the most material. We are assured that the author's efforts will meet with success.
He had learned to give which may be made an exquisite art little things that forbade refusal, but which were invested with cumulative values. Thus he brought many of his rare books of the world to the studio. In them she came upon his marginal milestones, and girdled them with her own pencillings. So their inner silences were broken, and they entered the concourse of the elect together.
Yellow is the ground all through in Cattleya aurea sepals, petals, and lip; unbroken in the two former, in the latter superbly streaked with crimson. But Cattleya Dowiana shows crimson pencillings on its sepals, while the ground colour of the lip is crimson, broadly lined and reticulated with gold. Imagine four of these noble flowers on one stalk, each half a foot across!
The sun came twinkling through a rustic frame-work of ivy which it had been the pride of her heart to arrange the week before. All the old family pictures and heirlooms, and sketches and pencillings, were arranged in the most charming way, so that her rooms seemed a reproduction of the old home. "Hang it all!" said John, with a great flounce as he turned over on the sofa.
His writings the very slip-slop of “commerage,” the tittle-tattle of a Sunday paper, dressed up in the cant of Kentucky; the very titles, the contemptible affectation of unredeemed twaddle, ‘Pencillings by the Way!’ ‘Letters from under a Bridge!’ Good lack! how the latter name is suggestive of eaves-dropping and listening; and how involuntarily we call to mind those chance expressions of his partners in the dance, or his companions at the table, faithfully recorded for the edification of the free-born Americans, who, while they ridicule our institutions, endeavour to pantomime our manners.
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