There is no stranger poem in the English language in its combination of excellences and faults, splendid audacities and execrable extravagances.
It was vaguely felt, in the Van Sideren circle, that all the audacities were artistic, and that a teacher who pronounced marriage immoral was somehow as distinguished as a painter who depicted purple grass and a green sky.
Her worst audacitiesdid not seem to surprise him: he had thought out all that she had felt, and they had reached the same conclusion.
It was like strong drink, firing him to audacitiesof feeling,--a drug that laid hold of his imagination and went cloud-soaring through the sky.
His audacities of phrase struck him as grotesque, his felicities of expression were monstrosities, and everything was absurd, unreal, and impossible.
That fine flower of eighteenth century lawlessness, the gentleman of the road, carried hisaudacities into the heart of the Town itself.
Wenona appreciated that it was the fashion in these degenerate days, the mark of the "upper class," to indulge in audacities of every kind.
The audacities of Impressionism are excluded, because painting which starts from a masterly seizure of total effect would seem too sketchy to English taste, which has been formed by Ruskin.
He was, like Ribot in France, although with less artistic power, a good representative of that "school of cellar skylights" which imitated in a sound manner the tone of the old Spanish masters.
This was the point of departure for Manet's further development.
It is just possible that this epoch of his audacities began in a reaction; that after too much self-distrust, he went briefly to the other extreme, indulging in too much self-confidence.
They failed to perceive that he owed his grandeur to his personality, and that the audacities which fascinated them became mere whimsical extravagances when severed from his terribilità and sombre simplicity of impassioned thought.
Like his sister, he had all sorts of bright impulses and audacitiesflashing and darting about him.
Pinchas was dithyrambic, sublime, with audacities which only genius can venture on.
Even the subtler Fitzgerald, who has so admirably rendered some of the audacities which Cowell thought "better left in the original Persian," has the air of apologizing for them when he partly concurs in the same estimate.
Their casual audacities of expression or speculation are in effect wellnigh identical.
What was written for children can hardly offend men; and the obscurities and audacities of the prophet would here have been clearly out of place.
It was as though, indeed, now that these audacities had served their purpose, some stronger and perhaps inherited instincts emerged in her, obscuring the earlier self.
Since her engagement she had dropped a good many of the small audacities of the social sort she had so freely allowed herself before it.
Lady Tressady threw in affected comments from time to time, trying hard to hold her own in the conversation by a liberal use of fan and Christian names, and little personal audacities applied to each speaker in turn.
It holds him to the people, supplies a foundation for his edifice, and in furnishing so much work done to his hand, leaves him at leisure and in full strength for the audacities of his imagination.
Indeed, those who wished him ill had from time to time hoped to see him tumble down, through miscalculation in some of his audacities with women.
So with the prudence of the sagacious man's audacities he contented himself with a share of this first venture that would simply make a comfortable foundation for the fortune he purposed to build.
They failed to perceive that he owed his grandeur to his personality; and that the audacities which fascinated them, became mere whimsical extravagances when severed from his terribilità and sombre simplicity of impassioned thought.
But they always extricated themselves: they countered all his audacities with even bolder ventures.
But nothing in his new audacitieswas left to the hazardous mercies of his instinct.
He was talking for my benefit, egged on to further audacities by a group of comrades who roared with laughter and said: "Go it, Bill!
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