We can trace by successive steps the swift development of Egyptian art from the rude archaism of the Ist Dynasty to its final consummation under the Vth, when the conventions became fixed.
There is no more of the archaism and absence of conventionality, which marks the art of the earliest dynasties.
Even purists, like his friend Boileau, admitted a certain archaism in lighter poetry, and La Fontaine would in all probability have troubled himself very little if they had not.
A slight touch ofarchaism (it is very slight) which is to be discovered in his work assists its effect not a little.
However it may be, most of them seem to dislike to allow any relic of archaism to antedate the supposed antiquity of the Jewish records.
This latter Morris tried to accomplish by increasing the archaism of his style by every means in his power.
The archaism of the English would represent the archaism of the Greek.
The effort has been made to give a decided flavor of archaism to the translation.
The hieratic archaism of his early work misled many people, for whom pre-Raphaelitism means presupposition.
With them he began a new period, throwing over the deliberate archaism and mediaevalism, of which he began to tire.
Yet it was exactly this uncompromising archaism which was of importance for his time, and amongst his contemporaries it gives him significance as a reformer.
The picture "Jupiter and Thetis," of 1811, is put together after a design on a Greek vase, and represents in its studied archaism the AEginetan period of his art.
These quotations have no very unfamiliar sound, nor much flavour of archaism about them.
Gray uses the archaism picked for peaked, and the word smudge (as our backwoodsmen do) for a smothered fire.
This is rather elaborate and removed from vulgar use by a sort of archaism in phrase and a pointed turn in the dialogue, adapted to theatrical utterance, but wanting the ease of ordinary speech.
An archaism for a channel of the sea, and not a mispronunciation of race (which see).
They show no more archaism than the statues of Meidoum.
We find none of the marks of inexperience and archaism which are so conspicuous in the statues of Sepa and Nesa.
It is of moment to know with some precision what is the degree of archaism conventionally required in speaking on any given topic.
On this head of purity of speech, as at other points where a conventional usage rests on the canons of archaism and waste, the spokesmen for the usage instinctively take an apologetic attitude.
Gaudenzio Ferrari's work in sculpture is little else than a succession of tours de force, and in other parts of the work we are now considering, there is a certain archaism which suggests growing rather than matured power.
Here the archaism (that is, the nearer approach to the older form) is with the standard idiom.
The treatment of the column-handled type is interesting as a survival of archaism both in design and arrangement, with the bordered panels and occasional B.
Hartwig points out that he continues the development of a refined archaism from Amasis (p.
It is probable that the archaism of language alone will always prevent a poet like Dunbar from being popular in the ordinary acceptation of the word.
But this is characterized by archaism and lack of creative power.
Rhetorical studies are the sole form of higher education, and are in part responsible for the archaism and artificiality of contemporary literature, owing to the emphasis which they laid upon literary form to the neglect of substance.
With Hadrian begins the period of archaism in Roman literature, that is, an artificial return to the Latin of Cato, Ennius and Plautus, an unmistakable symptom of intellectual sterility.
Shakespeare's greatness is recognized as preeminent in the presentation of character and passion; his faults in coherence and unity of structure and his archaism in manners and proprieties are admitted.
From the Psalter has disappeared in the American Book "Thou tellest my Sittings," although why this particular archaism should have been selected for banishment and a hundred others spared, it is not easy to understand.
I confess that since the discovery of the new side I am less inclined to regard the form flodu as anarchaism than as a mere blunder.
I suggested that it should be regarded as an archaism and at the same time pointed out that -u is lost in another word (unneg) in the same inscription.
The remark applies first and foremost, of course, to the Calender, and opens up the whole question of archaism and provincialism in literature.
