So lifelike are they that in them he has made the England of the fourteenth century live again.
Along with all this complexity of interest there is still room for a lifelike portrayal of Balaustion herself, one of the loveliest conceptions of womanhood in literature.
She is certainly a more lifelike child speaking Browningese, as she has often been criticised for doing, than she would be if upon this occasion she spoke in a Tennysonian manner.
All along the way the people came forth in multitudes to see the great Champion on his last journey; and much they marveled at his lifelike appearance, and greatly they mourned for him.
I can recall no more touching and lifelike scene than that first love-making of theirs, one rainy afternoon, in the kitchen where Nelly Dean is ironing the linen.
The only lifelike heroes and heroines are those of Ariosto.
The descriptions of scenery and places, and especially of the changes of calm and tempest, are lifelike and vivid.
Here the Rye-House Plot serves as the groundwork for a romantic love episode, whose true characters are lifelike beings, not dry sticks as in many historical tales.
In command and in expression of passion and of pathos, of noble and of evil nature, it equals any other work of this great dramatic poet; in the lifelike fusion of high comedy with deep tragedy it excels them all.
Miss Preston writes an admirable prose style, and the minor characters in the book are wonderfully lifelike and true.
To me, however, the chief interest of the book lies in the little lifelike sketches of Irish character with which it abounds.
Lady Munster writes a very clever, bright style, and has a wonderful faculty of drawing in a few sentences the most lifelike portraits of social types and social exceptions.
The white tiger now went through a series of actions, so lifelike that I could not but believe it was real, and that I had been deceived in thinking I had killed it.
By the by, there is a conceit struggling blindly in my mind about Petrarch and Laura, suggested by those two lifelike portraits, which have been sleeping cheek to cheek through all these centuries.
These old Roman busts, of which there are so many in the Vatican, have often a most lifelike aspect, a striking individuality.
Also the bronze gate of a baptistery in Florence, carved all over with relieves of Scripture subjects, executed in the mostlifelike and expressive manner.
With the most lifelike reproduction, there is no illusion.
There are likewise certain very lifelike shepherds, and a landscape which was held something very beautiful in his time.
Gregory (whose head is a portrait of Pope Clement VII) is eating with his twelve poor men, executed the whole service of the table, all very lifelike and most natural.
Joseph, in whose countenance there is a smile so animated and so lifelike that it is a marvel; and very beautiful, likewise, is a little boy painted to represent S.
Out of the water sprang the old root, seeming to writhe and squirm in a most lifelike manner.
It need hardly surprise us if out of such indistinct and heterogeneous materials Virgil failed to shape a thoroughly consistent and lifelike representation of human action and character.
In his conception of these real dangers of the sea, which have to be met in the most advanced as well as the most primitive times, Virgil's inferiority to Homer, both in general effect and in lifelike detail, is very marked.
So lifelike is the scene, so full of colour and movement, that Steenie's descendants might well believe that their gudesire, like Dante, had seen Hell.
Women, or Pour et Contre, with its lifelike sketches of Puritanical society and clever characterisation, appeared in 1818, and was favourably reviewed by Scott.
A few steps farther the ladies scream, and the gentlemen make ready to protect them against a young shark of the dogfish kind rolling with a lifelike motion in the tide that has thrown him up.
Komensky here gives a very lifelike description of the brutal ways of the soldiery at the time of the Thirty Years' War.
Novelists are at present very numerous in Bohemia and, as already mentioned, the extension of the national language enables the authors of the present day to write in a fashion more lifelike than was that of their predecessors.
The giving of lifelikeexpression to a painting is not so simple a matter as it might appear to be.
And those that are good in design and arrangement will stand this without loss of distinction, but those in which everything has been sacrificed to this striking lifelike quality will suffer considerably.
And it is not inconceivable that a single portrait might contain all and be a striking lifelike presentment, a faithful catalogue of all the features, a symbol of the person and a symphony of form and colour.
Pictures of future wealth and enjoyment rose in such lifelike colors before his eyes, that he was ready to hazard everything to reach them.
We are not able to detect from what old letter-writer or story-teller the impulse was derived to which we owe suchlifelike pictures.
In the fourth Gospel there are many more lifelike details than in the second; but that is not allowed to count.
It is a poor support to a pretence of finding a lifelike narrative.
These he fashioned carefully in front, and produced statues, which, viewed in front, are lifelike and fairly satisfactory.
In these rather more freedom was allowed to the caprice of the individual artist, and they were frequently enlivened with very charming and lifelike flowers, birds, squirrels, and other small animals.
To obtain a lifelike result, his pace should be slowed down 75 per cent.
Yet there is an ingenious way of obtaining the equivalent of a speed of eight pictures per second, and this without either disturbing the apparently lifelike movement or producing any flicker.
Bonaparte and his followers were also mounted, and some skirmishes took place of so lifelike a character as to evoke universal plaudits.
The sculpture was pronounced to be a lifelike image, reflecting great credit on the artist, Mr. Tipping, R.
A shout of laughter followed, for four large gray rats appeared, rather shaky as to their legs, and queer as to their tails, but quite fine about the head, where black beads shone in the most lifelike manner.
I think the best representation of the poet would be a coloured bust, like that of the young Rajah of Koolapoor at Florence, which is a lovely and lifelike work of art.
