United States or Kuwait ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
But the band is striking up; we must adjourn to the marquee. Belvoir, escaped from Mr. "I hope," said George to Cecilia, as they walked towards the marquee, "that Mr. Steen is not an average specimen of the electors I shall have to canvass. Whether he has been brought up to honour his own father and mother I can't pretend to say, but he seems bent upon teaching me not to honour mine.
"Please your honor," observed Steen, "I have a charge to make against George Johnston." "A charge, Steen what is it? You are a staunch, steady fellow, I know; what is this charge?" "Why, sir, we met a suspicious character on the old bridle road beyond Reilly's, and he refused to take him prisoner."
I don't understand how young married couples get along at all." "If you did," says I, "you'd have a steady job explainin' the miracle to about 'steen different Congressional committees. How about Edith? Is she a help or otherwise?" "She's a good sport, Edith is," says Hartley. "She keeps me bucked up a lot. It was her decision that I just passed on to Mr. Piddie.
Family pets play an important part in all these scenes of domestic life; apparently Jan Steen even more than other Dutch painters was interested in the idiosyncrasies of the animals about him and was amused by incidents including them.
We're gettin' along fine, Vee and me; that is, so far as we've gone. Course there's 'steen diff'rent varieties of Vee; but I'm strong for all of 'em. So there's no room for tragedy there. But when it comes to this case of Mr. Robert and a certain party!
He together with Metsu and Terburg, two artists eminent for finish and coloring, belonged to that group of painters of home-life who chose their subjects from the higher classes of society. One of these canvases portrays the artist with his wife. Among other paintings, Steen is represented by his favorite subject, a doctor feeling the pulse of a lovesick girl in the presence of her duenna.
Sparing the feelings of the accompanying storm priests about the offensiveness of the spacer Captain Jellico and Steen Wilcox went out to receive them in the open. Dane watched from the hatch, aware that in his present pariah-hood it would not be wise to venture closer. The Terran Traders were protesting some course of action that the Salariki were firmly insistent upon.
"It's a pity we didn't know of this trail before," said Whopper. "It might have saved us from going about 'steen miles out of our way." "Well, you'll know it after this," said Jed Sanborn, with a quiet smile. "Can't learn everything in a day, ye know. The woods is like book larnin' -ye have got to learn a page at a time."
Jan Steen drew his bow across his violin with a long, sweet note, and out on the floor glided Miranda, holding the hand of a tall, athletic-looking young negro, whose motions were grace itself. They began at the top of the room, holding the scarfs aloft, and slowly made their way down until they were in the centre, when the full light gleamed strongly upon their raised arms, their heads well up.
He at first studied under the famous landscape painter Van Goyen, but genius worked in him more powerfully than study; he divined the rules of his art, and if it sometimes seems that he has painted too black, as some of his critics have said, it was the fault of an extra bottle of wine at dinner. Steen is not the only Dutch painter who, whether deservedly or not, won a reputation for drunkenness.
Word Of The Day