Or indeed we may say again, it is in what I called Portrait-painting, delineating of men and things, especially of men, that Shakespeare is great.
The artist has overdrawn his subjects in delineating heaps of richly wrought and chased vessels as brought by the hounded victims to appease their tormentors.
To reproduce any thing that was transient and is gone, not by repetition as in a strain of music, but by delineating the emotions it caused, is an achievement of high art.
As Hogarth was invariably faithful in delineating what he saw, I dare believe the characters are represented as they were.
In this, having quitted his own country, he seems to think himself out of the reach of the critics, and indelineating a Frenchman, at liberty to depart from nature, and sport in the fairy regions of caricature.
His pen was most at home in describing smugglers, gipsies, and humble villagers, and in delineating poverty and wretchedness; and thus opening to the rich and titled, doors through which they might exercise their philanthropy and munificence.
On his return, he published his travels, and a Poetical Epistle from Italy, which are interesting as delineating continental scenes and manners in that day.
In 1835 he published a drama called Paracelsus, founded upon the history of that celebrated alchemist and physician, and delineating the conditions of philosophy in the fifteenth century.
The art or science of projecting or delineating shadows as they fall in nature.
The art ofdelineating the forms of solid bodies on a plane; a branch of solid geometry which shows the construction of all solids which are regularly defined.
He was the son of a shepherd named Bondone, and while watching his father's flocks in the field, he showed a natural genius for art by constantly delineating the objects around him.
The conception of covering executed by delineating the object covered beneath the middle point of an arch or curve, appears also clearly in the Egyptian characters for night, Fig.
These technical expedients are many; but they may all be grouped as phases of one or the other of two contrasted methods of delineating character, which may be called, for convenience, direct and indirect.
But at this point Poe was obliged to choose between the direct and the indirect means of delineating character.
Before we proceed to study the technical methods of delineating characters, we must ask ourselves what constitutes a character worth delineating.
But in fiction, as in life, actions speak louder than words: and the most convincing way of delineating character indirectly is by exhibiting a person in the performance of a characteristic action.
There are several distinct ways of delineating character directly, and also several distinct means of indirect delineation.
In delineating male character I labour under disadvantages: intuition and theory will not always adequately supply the place of observation and experience.
She does her business ofdelineating the surface of the lives of genteel English people curiously well.
Boccaccio bound up in one volume a hundred tales, delineating society in all its aspects.
Plutarch's narrative is of no value as a campaign, and his apology must be that he was not writing a campaign, but delineating a man's character.
The fact is admitted; but, for so delineating him, the author is entitled to our praise, rather than our censure.
As a painter of life it is not by striking effects, but by his truth in detail, and his power of delineating the finer distinctions in varying specimens of the same type, that he gains a hold over the reader.
He has shown the finest sense in discerning, and the finest power in delineating the charm of youthful passion, when first awakening into life, or first unfolding into true affection.
The convention, in delineating the boundary between the federal and State jurisdictions, must have experienced the full effect of them all.
Sheffield Assay Office in accordance with the Act of 1784.
The Master Cutlers of Sheffield cannot have been aware of these happenings.
But the teapot and the coffee pot did not go unrecognized by the Sheffield artisans.
Sheffield, quick to seize an idea of marketable value, stamped the little medallion of Shakespeare on her knife handle with an eye to fashionable demands of the day.
The latter mark is stamped on a candlestick made about 1797.
Restlessness of invention seized the Sheffield and other platers.
The Boulsover process consisted in cutting off from a solid bar of copper a rectangular piece some three inches wide, twelve inches long, and about one inch in thickness.
The invention of transfer printing upon china is claimed by Worcester, by Liverpool and by Battersea, and all three employed designs which were not original.
The principal scenes in the novel proved most attractive to him, and he fairly revelled in delineating the tragic episodes associated with the career of Fagin and Sikes.
Let us slightly analyze the supposed proceedings of the pupil in delineating this.
The ellipse a b must next be attempted; this is a form eminently useful in delineating a multiplicity of forms met with in practice.
The fact is admitted; but, for so delineating him, the author is entitled to our praise rather than our censure.
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