One pauses, horrified to find oneself ticking off thesemasterpieces on one's fingers, as though they were so many books by Mrs Humphry Ward or buns by Lyons.
In proof of this we have only to refer to the masterpieces of fiction which the world cherishes and loves to recur to.
Few masterpieces of any age in any language can stand beside this tragic poem--it has hardly the structure of a play--for the qualities of terror and splendor, for intensity of purpose and sublimity of note.
We see the hand which has written so many ill-understood and insufficiently appreciatedmasterpieces binding up branches or lopping off stray tendrils, while the sunlight sparkles on the plain gold signet ring with its initials, W.
But most diverting of all are these two little cherubs who ran away and got married, and now want the world to support them while they write masterpieces of literature!
What did it mean to them if he had written masterpieces of literature--what would it avail with them that he was the bearer of a new religion!
The book is indeed an original creation, and one of the fewmasterpieces of humor.
This great genius belongs so absolutely to Venice, where he lived and worked and where all his masterpieces are to be found, that he cannot be included in the Veronese school of painting.
Two rose windows in the transepts and the carved wooden screens of the side chapels aremasterpieces of 16th-century workmanship.
English public galleries ignore Everdingen; but one of his best-known masterpieces is the Norwegian glen belonging to Lord Listowel.
He was now able to give much time to composition, and began to write those masterpieces for the organ which have placed his name on the highest pinnacle in the temple of music.
It was best for the great genius to devote himself wholly to his divine art, and to create those masterpieces which will always endure.
In 1879 appeared the great Violin Concerto, now acclaimed as one of the few masterpiecesfor that instrument.
For himself the prospects were equally tempting--a honey-moon in Europe, in the cities of romantic dream, amid the masterpieces of Art.
Not only did the constant hearing of the noble masterpieces of their time tend to cultivate their taste, but they began to practise music themselves.
The friends and associates of Count Vernio were all enthusiastic students of Greek literature; and to them the masterpieces of AEschylus and Euripides had come as revelations.
Just when they began to do that it is not possible to say, because the early compositions have not been preserved as the great masterpieces of church counterpoint have.
The great masterpieces of painting and sculpture have as much of beauty and inspiration in them as the great masterpieces of literature.
Garnett's name is a warrant for his acquaintance not only with the masterpieces but with much besides, and with more than all that need be named in the kind of survey he undertakes.
If so, it is one of the masterpieces that has long ceased to be read.
Several of his 25 novels, like The Caxtons, My Novel, Harold, and Kenelm Chillingly, are masterpieces of their kind.
Author Dissertations on the Epistles of Phalaris, works provoked by his famous controversy with Boyle, and which rank as masterpieces of argument.
But we may truly assert that he has enriched our literature with some classical masterpieces in the comedy of contemporary manners.
Two only had survived the test of time as the pre-eminent masterpieces of their class; those of Beethoven and Mendelssohn.
Standing about midway, as to date of publication, between his two great series of masterpieces for pianoforte and strings, if it is to be classed amongst either, it must indubitably be reckoned with that of the sixties.
It is, indeed, one of the masterpieces of Brahms' later concise style.
If there are to be masterpieces at all, they will be of to-morrow, not to-day.
The Lady of Lyons and Richelieu still rank in many theatrical circles with Hamlet as masterpieces of the "legitimate," and Money is still bracketed with The School for Scandal.
When the old man, confined by paralysis to his armchair, was cut off from the world by the loss of several of his senses, he would be seen acting to himself (barely so much as moving his lips the while) the masterpieces he had loved.
Free our hands; give us permission to produce masterpieces, and the masterpieces will not be delayed.
He wrote, in my judgment, two masterpieces in his life, and each of them is essentially a short story, though the one happened to be published as a volume.
I am told that some of them are masterpieces and the rest pot-boilers, but that no one is agreed which is which.
Even our present civilization delights in the masterpieces of the classical poets, historians, orators, and essayists, and seeks to rival them.
The masterpieces of the old artists brought enormous sums, as the works of the old masters do now; and they were brought to Rome by the conquerors, as the masterpieces of Italy and Spain and Flanders were brought to Paris by Napoleon.
Thus the Romans, as well as Greeks, produced works in all departments of literature that will bear comparison with the masterpieces of modern times.
Even the great masterpieces of Sophocles and Euripides now extant were regarded by their contemporaries as inferior to many other Greek tragedies utterly unknown to us.
The study of the monologue when rightly pursued will aid in studying literature as the mirror of life and prevent the student from developing contempt for the literary masterpieces which he is made to analyze.
They are masterpieces in their kind, and the very numerous editions of them prove their popularity.
But its vigour and freshness are considerable, and in many passages we recognize familiar situations and favourite figures in later masterpieces of the English historical drama.
Ariosto's models were the masterpieces of the palliata, and his morals those of his age, which emulated those of the worst days of ancient Rome or Byzantium in looseness, and surpassed them in effrontery.
Faber and Alcala Galiano to uphold the principles of classicism; and with the aid of the eminent actor Maiquez the old romantic masterpieces were easily reinstated in the public favour, which as a matter of fact they had never forfeited.
The sculptures on the tombs and the stained glass of the chapel windows are masterpieces of modern art.
His early masterpieces were dramatic only in form.
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