The book De l'Esprit is wanting in depth, and too anecdotic in style for a serious work of philosophy, though this very characteristic makes it all the more amusing reading.
The success of the plays also brought about an incident famous in French literary history of the anecdotic kind.
He is valuable to us as, without exception, the most vivid and graphic painter of contemporary history of the anecdotic kind in French or any other language.
These men, such as Saint Ibal, Bardouville, Desbarreaux, and others, figure largely in the anecdotic history of the time.
Every figure was painted after nature with blunt and rigorous sincerity, and no anecdotic incident was devised in it.
And a group of realists came forward as they had done in France, and began to seek truth with scientific rigour and an avoidance of any kind of anecdotic by-play.
A Rembrandtesque feeling for space, the great line, the simplification, the intellectual restraint from anecdotic triviality of form, are the things which constitute his style.
Their pictures from modern life opposed to the anecdotic pictures of the elder genre painters.
Its innocent childishness and conventional optimism had led to a tedious anecdotic painting.
Even Defregger had observed peasant life altogether from a narrative and anecdotic point of view.
The philistinism of the pictures of those days has been finally stripped away, and the humorously anecdotic genre entirely overcome.
In the Renaissance painters, on the other hand, with their descriptive pre-occupations, their literary and anecdotic interests, he could see nothing but vulgarity and muddle.
It is years since I met anyone, careful of his reputation, so bold as to deny that the literary and anecdotic content of a work of visual art, however charming and lively it might be, was mere surplusage.
Memories of our Great Towns; with Anecdotic Gleanings concerning their Worthies and their Oddities.
Who, mad'ning with an anecdotic itch, Hath said that Johnson called his mother, witch?
In both of their 'Lives' the trifling weaknesses of the great Lexicographer are made ridiculous, under the misguiding impulse of the 'anecdotic itch.
Even anecdotic etymologies accepted by the most cautious modern authorities do not always inspire complete confidence.
It is suggestive of so many pleasant little platitudes about "long ago," with anecdotic memories of poor dear Dick or Harry, that it rarely fails to interest and amuse.
Perhaps the best work in English is Pougin's Anecdotic History of Verdi; his Life and Works, which has been excellently translated from the French by James E.
Biographical and anecdoticdetail has, I believe, much less to do with the real appreciation of the literary value of an author than is generally thought.
At the same time biographical and anecdotic details please most people, and if they are not allowed to shoulder out criticism altogether, there can be no harm in them.
The non-anecdotic part may be despatched in a few sentences.
The anecdotic history, more or less authentic, of the Ettrick Shepherd would fill volumes, and I must try to give some of the cream of it presently.
But as a novelist he does not seem to me to be of much importance, nor even as a tale-teller, except of the anecdotic kind.
But his pictures are sympathetic in spite of this one-sided optimism, since the sentiment is not too affected nor the anecdotic points too heavily underlined.
Painter to his finger tips, like Delacroix, Roqueplan, and Isabey, he stood in need of no anecdoticsubstratum as an adjunct.
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