He was, moreover, scarcely less distinguished for his noble character than for his high rank.
This last is an avowed act of worship by the artist of the naked human body, and as such, in its noble frankness, free from all offence, except to those whose scruples in matters of art we are not here called upon to consider.
The noble figure of St. Mark must be of Titian's designing, but is certainly not of his painting, while the corresponding figure on the other side is neither the one nor the other.
To the same period belongs, no doubt, the noble full-length of Charles in gala court costume which now hangs in the Sala de la Reina Isabel in the Prado Gallery, as a pendant to Titian's portrait of Philip II.
It may be, as Vasari surmises, that this attitude was taken up by the duke in order not to do wrong to the "many noble craftsmen" then practising in his city and dominion.
He is spared the knowledge of the great calamity of 1577, the destruction by fire of the Sala del Gran Consiglio, and with it, of the Battle of Cadore, and most of the noble work done officially for the Doges and the Signoria.
The Uffizi portrait emergesnoble still, in its semi-ruined state, from a haze of restoration and injury, which has not succeeded in destroying the exceptional fineness and sensitiveness of the modelling.
To the right, a rival even of Love in the affections of our enigmatical personage, a noble hound rubs himself affectionately against the stalwart legs of his master.
The portrait is evidently not that of a painter by himself, nor does it represent Titian at any age; but it finely suggests, even in black and white, a noble original by the master.
The stones of its noble double tier of circular arches have been dropped into their places upon the wooden centres, and stand unmoved to this day, simply by the jamming of their own weight; a miracle of art.
Even as the animals had given their skins that her father might be warm, so she was ready to give her little light to make him happy and comfortable, even as Owaissa, her noble mother, had done.
The proceeds gave poor Villiers bread; but the noble works of Titian and Leonardo da Vinci, and others, were lost for ever to England.
There were other butterflies in that gay court; beaux without wit; remorseless rakes, incapable of one noble thought or high pursuit; and amongst the most foolish and fashionable of these was Henry Jermyn, Lord Dover.
Nor was this all: if a writer were sufficiently successful in his works to reflect honour on his patron, he was eagerly courted by others of the noble profession.
A Kit-kat is a supper for a lord,' says a comedy of 1700, and certes it afforded at this club evening nourishment for many a celebrated noble profligate of the day.
But if you'll learn a noble way To keep his empire from decay, And there for ever fix your throne, Be kind, but kind to me alone.
Noble indeed was the sentiment which inspired this great man to sacrifice himself on the altar of Hymen for the good of his creditors.
To this minister our noble duke wrote a hypocritical letter, which, as it shows how the man could write penitently, is worth transcribing.
And many a chief with Douglas stood: it was a noble line Set sail to fight the Infidel in holy Palestine.
Pass onward first, O noble heart, as in the days of yore!
That is very fine and noble of you, but it would be wrong, for it would not save your brother, and you would certainly be made a prisoner yourself.
The infantry rushed forward, fighting and dying nobly in a noble cause.
Her noble countenance was radiant as the morning; her soft voice, though low, so firm that she was heard to the farthest corner, and her little sermon as philosophical as it was devout.
He fought a stout and noble battle in Congress last session in favour of discussion of the slavery question, and in defence of the right of petition upon it; on behalf of women as well as of men.
Mr. Clay is a man of an irritable and impetuous nature, over which he has obtained a truly noble mastery.
The red cedars still overshadow it, and it is a noble resting-place.
And so it will always be when the mind is really pervaded by so noble a faith as Priestley's.
Few spectacles can be more noble than he is in that obscurity, discoursing of public men and affairs with a justice which no rivalship can impair, and a hopefulness which no personal disappointment can relax.
We think the whole thing is straight and noble at bottom, and it isn't.
It seemed to Sidonia that he had never listened to a voice more rich and passionate, to an elocution more complete; he gazed with admiration on her lightning glance and all the tumult of her noble brow.
The Hameer is a noble gentleman, every inch of him, and I am very glad my lord has got a companion of his own kidney.
The first beams of the sun, too, were rising from the mountains of Arabia and resting on the noble convent of the Nativity.
The noble Emir of the Lebanon has expressed himself with infinite exactitude,' said Keferinis.
The heroine is real, the sympathy is wild but at least genuine, the catastrophe is that of a ship at sea which sinks with a rich cargo in a noble venture.
In the meanwhile, I must replace this bandage, noble Besso.
The flowers of arnica, noble Emir, of which the Lady Eva spoke.
The noble Emir has expressed himself with inexpressible grace.
I could not refrain from seeing the sun set on Arabia,' he said; 'I had almost induced the noble Besso to be my companion.
Beneath these arcades runs a noble divan of green and silver silk, and the silken panels of the arabesque walls have been covered with subjects of human interest by the finest artists of Munich.
TO Lillian Massey Treble A woman with a heart of gold I heard her called before I knew How noble was that heart and true, How full of tenderness untold.
Middleton had been put into a chamber in the oldest part of the house, the furniture of which was of antique splendor, well befitting to have come down for ages, well befitting the hospitality shown to noble and even royal guests.
I should be sorry to think so," said Middleton; "they are at all events two noble breeds of men, and ought to appreciate one another.
When at last, the noble heart ceased to beat, the Rev.
That this noble and fashionable creature could descend to writing wrappers, and to waiting his turn with a bank-book in the long train of a sordid teller, passed all speculation and astonishment.
I never entered the noble rotunda of that vast collection without an emotion of littleness and awe.
Were these the noble savages whom, all his life, he had burned to see?
The recommendation was superfluous, for this was the very thing the noble animal seemed to intend doing.
I halted, filled with admiration for so noble an example of valor, and then rode rapidly towards him.
There stood the ancestral home of the Lees, whose deserted rooms seemed haunted with memories of a noble race.
If it be true that the mothers of men of mark are always women of strong and noble characters, then we are not surprised to find in the mother of Willard Glazier those sterling qualities which made her young life successful.
It is quite in keeping with everything about Kilpatrick that he should choose the cavalry as a vehicle for his high ambition and noble patriotism.
He performed his duty, was honorably discharged, and is a member in good standing of that noble organization of veterans, the 'Grand Army of the Republic.
Mr. Catlin would have admitted that this noble red man was alien to any of his tribes, and even Cooper's Leather-Stocking would have conceded that his was a new revelation of savage humanity.
We take great pleasure in speaking of Captain Glazier in the highest terms, not only on account of the self-devotion he has manifested in a noble cause, but of his indomitable perseverance and energy.
Bunker Hill came in for especial notice, where 'many brave and noble men gave up their lives.
In fact, he had discovered that every duty of life has its heroic side, and needs only the impulse of high and noble motives to be invested with dignity and interest.
Who could be the first and do the most, was the noble contention which everywhere prevailed.
No Englishman who loves what is noble in the English temper can tell without sorrow and shame the story of that time of guilt.
The measure was adopted by the Scotch Parliament, and the Treaty of Union became a legislative Act to which Anne in 1707 gave her assent in noble words.
The passions which stirred the men around him, whether noble or ignoble, were to Marlborough simply elements in an intellectual problem which had to be solved by patience.
As soon as the news of these preparations reached England noble after noblemade his way to the Hague.
Vague too and hollow as much of the "high talk" of the Patriots was, it showed that the age of political cynicism, of that unbelief in high sentiment and noble aspirations which had followed on the crash of Puritanism, was drawing to an end.
His noble figure, the hawk-like eye which flashed from the small thin face, his majestic voice, the fire and grandeur of his eloquence, gave him a sway over the House of Commons far greater than any other minister has possessed.
But wearisome as it all is, it succeeded in its end, and its end was a noble one.
It is the representative of nominal boroughs, of ruined and exterminated towns, of noble families, of wealthy individuals, of foreign potentates.
I will not be the Minister," he said withnoble self-command, "to enforce taxes at the expense of blood.
Mean natures always feel a sort of terror before great natures, and many a base thought has been unuttered, many a sneaking vote withheld, through the fear inspired by the rebuking presence of one noble man.
The great thing is to be a man, to have a high purpose, a noble aim, to be dead in earnest, to yearn for the good and the true.
The prison has roused the slumbering fire in many a noble mind.
But such touching loyalty moved even the iron heart of Dionysius; accordingly he ordered both to be spared, and asked to be allowed to make a third partner in such a noble friendship.
Yes, "just to see what it is like" has ruined many a noble life.
No doubt the noble characters of these two men, almost superhuman in their excellence, are the natural result of their early care and earnest striving towards perfection.
Leckey says that the first hospital ever established was opened by that noble Christian woman, Fabiola, in the fourth century.
Now a ball was to be given by the members of the Ladies' Hockey Club (or such of them as had not been maimed for life in the pursuit of this noble pastime) on the very night after the conversation about murder.
It was a noble act, rare enough in the Five Towns and in other parts of England.
There was something fine even in his cynicism, something almost noble in his scorn for conventional morality.
There was something noble in his face, there was a healthy anger in his words.
Even in his drunken sleep there was somethingnoble about him.
Indeed, when all the guests had left the house that night, Olive Castlemaine reflected what a fine man Radford Leicester would be if the sad, hopeless spirit were cast out of him, and he could be inspired by high and noble motives.
Would this dread tragedy have been averted, and would she have been able, as he had said, to have led him to a noble manhood?
When I came to know you, and to realise how noble and true you were, I scorned, I loathed myself.
Such is the justice of God--the crime enabled Victoria to bequeath to the admiration of posterity a noble example of patriotism and abnegation!
The woman, of noble Frankish extraction and Chrotechilde by name, has long been the confidante in all the Queen's crimes and debaucheries.
As a matter of precaution, the noble chamberlain was bound fast and handcuffed with the identical rope and manacles that, with a foresight for which old Ronan felt duly grateful, he had intended for Loysik.
I heard you ring, noble dame Chrotechilde, at your orders.
A noble and worthy priesthood, according to his first encyclical, was to be one of the means towards that restoring of all things in Christ "which was to heal the wounds of the world.
At the station a large crowd had gathered to receive him, priests, people, representatives of the noble families of the place, and of the divers associations of town and country.
At the prow of the launch stood Cardinal Sarto in all the splendour of scarlet robes, a noble manly figure, full of dignity and sweetness, blessing the crowd with the winning smile that was characteristic of him.
The seminary, founded in 1577 and greatly enlarged a century later, boasts a handsome church and a noble library rich in precious manuscripts.
Nor was it the Catholic press alone that paid tribute to the holy life and noble aims of the dead pope.
Opposite the bed, which was surrounded by four great candles, stood an altar, where from the small hours of the morning Mass succeeded Mass; two Noble Guard were on duty beside the dead pontiff.
His reform of church music was in the main a return to the pure and noble manner of the best masters of the sixteenth century .
Its noble verse summons all true maids and lovers to bear the dead company, in that burial procession which should have been her bridal triumph.
He had done it, as it were, without knowing--had painted something infinitely pathetic and noble without realising it in the doing.
It is also the most majestic in its appearance and attitudes, and the most noble in the expression of its eyes and, if the term may be permitted, of its countenance.
It was observed and reported upon by Brooke in Sardinia, and Kruper in Greece, which latter observes that it is "a noble falcon, and was in early ages used for falconry.
As Americans we owe a debt of gratitude to the noble discoverers and conquerors of this continent.
Mexicans are thus, as I have observed elsewhere, grafts rather of the wild Arab on the American Indian, than of the Spanish Don on the noble Aztec.
Thus is it that the brave soldier, performing his noble exploit on the field of battle, speaks palpably to the eye and ear of the greedy multitude.
When they reached the top of the hill, the noble harbor lay spread out beneath them, from the purple line of the great cities to the silver sheen of the sea inside the narrows.
