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Updated: June 16, 2025
When we recall the manner in which "The Angelus" was paraded through the country a few years ago, and the genuine sentiment of the simple scene where Millet had endeavored to express "the things that lie flat, like a plain; and the things that stand up," like his peasants was travestied by gushing sentimentalists, it is pleasant to think of the wholesome common sense of the great painter.
Presently, when the shadows were thickening into gloom and the angelus bells were ringing in the church, I heard, a long way off, the rattle of the rifles as the soldiers fired goodnight volleys over the graves of their dead comrades.
The day's work is drawing to a close. The peasant man and woman have been digging potatoes the man uncovering them, while his wife has been putting them in the basket. As the Angelus floats across the fields, the two pause and bow their heads in prayer. The man has dropped his fork and uncovered his head, and his wife has clasped her hands devoutly before her.
Christopher, and going out night and day, to the sound of the Angelus, seeking the lost and weary. This is really what Findelkind of Arlberg did five centuries ago, and did so well that his fraternity of St.
On the wall, at a point marked by a shallow angle, there was a cracked stone bench, offering seawardly a view of the Isles of the Princes, and the Asian domain beyond Broussa to the Olympian heights; westwardly, the Bucoleon and its terraced gardens were near by, and above them in the distance the Tower of Isaac Angelus arose over Blacherne, like a sentinel on guard against the opposing summits of Galata and Pera.
The lady slowly waved her hand in the direction of the children, whose young voices still rang clear as cloister bells tolling out the Angelus, and whose white dresses waved in the light wind as they danced back and forth with a slow and graceful motion. "You hear, Earl William," she said, in a low, thrilling voice, speaking with a foreign accent, "you hear?
How often we admired the lovely Dicksonia ferns with their lanceolate green fronds pointing in all directions; how many times we heard the melody of the wood- thrush as evening drew on and the shadowy ravines seemed hushed and serene as his "angelus" sounded in these vast mountain solitudes.
The secretary, as he passed Miss Keene, managed to add to his formal salutation the whispered words, "When the Angelus rings I will await you before the grating of his prison." Padre Esteban was too preoccupied to observe this incident. As soon as he quitted the Presidio, he hastened to the Mission with a disquieting fear that his strange guest might have vanished.
But it was only half-past twelve o'clock, and it was simply Sister Hyacinthe who had roused him, by making her patients and pilgrims say the Angelus, the three "Aves" thrice repeated. Then the voices burst forth, and the sound of a fresh canticle arose, and continued like a lamentation.
And the man who was sketching and said he had a very good eye for colour in the light, but would I be good enough to tell him what colour was best for the shadows. "An amateur," he said, "might do very decent things in water-colour, but oils require genius." So I said: "What is genius?" "Millet's picture of the Angelus sold for 700,000 francs. Now that," he said, "is genius."
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