Apart from her beauty he had never known a woman who so conformed to his ideals of the appropriate, despite the grotesque folly of her blighted romance.
Baynell, taken wholly by surprise, felt his senses reel when, like thegrotesque inconsequence of a dream, a man in the uniform of a Confederate officer in the quiet, peaceful house confronted him at the head of the flight.
The grotesque groups flanking the main doorways on three sides of the quadrangle and the central doorway on the terrace appear also to have been designed by Cipriani.
The neck was provided with a fretted finger-board; the head was curved and surmounted by a grotesque head of a woman or of an animal.
To and fro, and up and down beneath their scraggy gum-tree, the two great cranes footed it in a sort of grotesque minuet.
To an observer who had known of this, there would have been something at once rather pathetic and a good deal grotesque about Finn's present kittenish play with Jess.
A few of the comic and grotesque costumes should be intermingled, and all the figures wear masks of various patterns.
They trailed the dresses over the stubble in mock dignity; they improvised a dance, and went through all the grotesque changes they could invent.
Indeed Dickens has been rightly designated a grotesque novelist--the greatest of all grotesque novelists.
Johnson's personality, too, cannot be fairly judged by its more grotesque expression.
Yet in spite of everything grotesque and inconsistent, the plays no doubt largely fulfilled their religious purpose and exercised on the whole an elevating influence.
The hero is not born until the third volume, the story mostly relates to other people and things, pages are left blank to be filled out by the reader--no grotesque device or sudden trick can be too fantastic for Sterne.
Footnote 2221: The grotesque is often that of a farce.
The thing was grotesque in its tremendous and fantastic absurdity; Ayesha's ambitions were such as no imperial-minded madman could conceive.
Were I an artist who wished to portray a wise and benevolent, but rather grotesque spirit, I should take that countenance as a model.
This white dress I thought became him very well, also about it there was nothinggrotesque or even remarkable.
L'lllustre Gaudissart, for instance, is full of the most grotesque mistakes, mistakes that would disgrace a schoolboy.
He then crept to the edge, and, overlooking the preacher, imitated his gestures in so grotesque a manner, that the whole congregation were convulsed with laughter.
From the side of this bed something leaped with great agility, that made a most grotesque appearance, and was not caught without much difficulty.
The next moment Allan's inveterate recklessness seized on the grotesque side of the situation by main force.
Here again, in this, as in all other human instances, the widely discordant elements of the grotesque and the terrible were forced together by that subtle law of contrast which is one of the laws of mortal life.
They certainly resemble the English plays in the manner in which one actor calls in another by name; while the grotesque figures introduced have some likeness to the "fool" of the morris.
It may tax the imagination to find the resemblance to an Elephant's Head in the stalactite so called; but once found the grotesque likeness is vivid.
Would any decent man, Mr. Baxter, mock at the pathos and effort of that, even if it were some grotesque thing, like a flannel shirt on the end of an oar?
Every actual experience of his life seems to have been taken up into a realm of dream, and there distorted till the reader sees not the real figures, but the enormous, grotesque shadows of them, executing wild dances on a screen.
His plays are slovenly and careless in construction, and he puts classical allusions into the mouths of milkmaids and serving boys, with the grotesque pedantry and want of keeping common among the playwrights of the early stage.
Footnote 3: The comic or grotesque character of the Italian ballet, from which the English "Punch" takes his origin.
The grotesque heads on the arches in the nave are said to represent the various mummeries of the Anglo-Saxon gleemen.
A triangular base supports the stem, and the whole is enriched with forty-two monsters in various grotesque attitudes, wrestling and struggling with nine human beings.
Not content with thus treading upon them at every step he took, he added insult to injury by making them grotesque (Fig.
They are in the shape of grotesque busts, resting upon the lower slab and supporting the upper one with their heads.
Among them, as among the Greeks, the grotesque was only allowed to appear where the forms were both very much smaller than life and considerably generalized.
Grotesque figure forming the handle of a small 63 vase 57.
Grotesque figure forming the handle of a small 63 vase 56.
Grotesque figure forming the handle of a small 63 vase 55.
The bow and stern are decorated with grotesque figures of men and animals, sometimes five feet in height.
They became fond of arraying themselves in any article of civilized dress which they could procure, and often made a most grotesque appearance.
When on warlike expeditions, they painted their faces and bodies in the most hideous and grotesque manner, according to the universal practice of American savages.
In the corridor leading to F station their way was blocked by the crowd, many of them still wearing the grotesque costumes of the masquerade dance, now pale and tawdry in the bright lights.
Hunched over the little tables, clinking glasses, grotesque silhouettes of Martians, Venusians, and Apollonians whispered intimately.
After expecting to see one of the grotesque figures so often set before us by German novelists and writers of libretti, he beheld a simple, unpretentious man, whose manners and demeanor were in nothing strange and did not lack dignity.
Hardly had he mentioned the woman he was seeking when Signor Giardini, with a grotesque shrug, looked knowingly at his customer, a bland smile on his lips.
It is difficult to give any idea of the grotesque performance.
It is singularly characteristic of this age that the poems which rise to the surface should be examples of ornate art, andgrotesque art, not of pure art.
We quote them to illustrate, not the success of grotesque art, but the nature of grotesque art.
The idea of a court and the idea of a heaven are so radically different, that a distinct combination of them is always grotesque and often ludicrous.
It is very natural that a poet whose wishes incline, or whose genius conducts him to a grotesque art, should be attracted towards mediaeval subjects.
Again, Mr. Browning evidently loves what we may call the realism, the grotesque realism, of orthodox christianity.
There is no age whose legends are so full of grotesque subjects, and no age where real life was so fit to suggest them.
If we wanted to illustrate the nature of grotesque art by an exaggerated instance we should have selected a poem which the chance of late publication brings us in this new volume.
It is too grotesque to furnish much of an idea of the use of paint on such statues as the great masters later produced.
From the grotesque death masks of thin gold leaf to the heavily embossed Vaphio cups, everything bears testimony to the high perfection of the goldsmith’s art in the pre-Homeric age.
