For his delineations of the sailor of Nelson's day we owe much to a capital but neglected novelist M.
The greatest painters, who followed ideal beauty into heaven itself, and thence brought back to earth the true portrait of the Madonna, never in their delineations even approached that wildly beautiful reality which I saw before me.
His work being that of the artist, he claims the privilege of the sculptor and the painter in delineations of the beautiful.
It is in his delineations of society that Juvenal is at his greatest.
Things directly foreign were mixed up with them, and, what was most serious, delineations of the hopes of the future could easily lead to the undervaluing of the most important gifts and duties of the Gospel.
If one had once given the impression that he had the Spirit, he could win belief for the strangest things, and could allow himself all things possible (see the delineations of Celsus in Orig.
The most fearful delineations of the torments of Hell formed the reverse side to this.
We now know through the Apocalypse of Peter, how old these delineations are.
In its volumes may be found sprightly delineationsof home scenes and characters, highly wrought imaginative pieces, tales of genuine pathos and humor, and pleasing fairy stories and fables.
The range of these delineations extends from Nova Scotia on the northeast to the spurs of the Rocky Mountains on the west and the Gulf of Mexico on the south.
His instant and tremendous concentration of passion in his delineations overwhelmed his audience and wrought it into such enthusiasm that it partook of the fever of inspiration surging through his own veins.
Early in the eighteenth century, even the best cartographers ran wild in their delineations of the Pacific coast.
Apart from the innate beauty and charming tone of his narratives, the delineations of Island life and scenery, from, my own personal observation, are most correctly and faithfully drawn.
The love of beauty, however, and not of truth, is the moving principle of his mind; and he is guided in his fantastic delineations by no rule but the impulse of an inexhaustible imagination.
The world of spirits lay open to him, like the world of real men and women; and there is the same truth in hisdelineations of the one as of the other.
He afterwards settled in his native city, and gained pre-eminence in his skilful and faithful delineations in oil and water colours.
As an artist he stood unrivalled in his minute and accurate delineations of fish, fruit, and flowers.
And therefore there is a truth in Crabbe's delineations which is quite independent of his more or less rigid administration of poetical justice.
There appeared those admirable delineations of country scenery and country thoughts which Sainte-Beuve detaches so lovingly from the mass of serious speculation in which they are embedded.
In some localities excavations are substituted for these raised figures; that is to say, that the delineations of the animals are sunk instead of being in relief-a strange variety in these strange works.
There are, on the other hand, a good many rough delineations of fish, principally on the so-called wands of authority, on which numbers may often be noticed following one another in a series.
Nevertheless there are very finedelineations in the story.
The great imaginative poets, in their delineations of man and nature, do not idealise; they see: or they see before they idealise.
Of all these were preserveddelineations in the temple of Belus at Babylon.
All thesedelineations were what the painters call half-lengths; her whole figure was never engraved, except for this work.
Hogarth's leading object in them all seems to be a ridicule of those who gave these barbarous delineations a preference to his own paintings.
Grotesque delineations have more influence upon the populace than the philosopher is apt to imagine.
He shows also, in his delineationsof character, high appreciation of practical wisdom, and of its most powerful instrument in a free State, the persuasive power of oratory.
The frost played curious tricks of artistic skill, and its delineations were sometimes marvels of beauty.
It failed, and perhaps justly; yet it contains one of the nicest delineations of character in Mr. Cooper's works.
Whoever passes through the details of this singular exposition, supposing it to contain correct delineations of fact, will be satisfied of the justness of this remark.
The great idealdelineations of poets have been only capable of being produced by the elite of the human race.
I need not say that I allude to the Apocryphal Gospels, the delineations of Jesus which they contain, and above all to their miraculous narratives.
Happily antiquity has preserved to us several delineations of a mythical Jesus on which the inventors have stamped the most unmistakable impress of their own credulity and superstition.
He particularly excelled in expressing the delineations of female and infantine beauty; his pieces are dispersed in the cabinets of Europe, and highly esteemed.
It contains a large mass of valuable information, and many spirited delineations of colonial scenery and manners.
Vasey in his 'Delineations of the Ox-tribe' has given a figure of this skull; and I sent a photograph of it to Prof.
Leguat's Voyage quoted by Vasey in his 'Delineations of the Ox-tribe' page 132.
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