It was not until some months afterward that the journal I am about to quote fell into my hands; but I copy some of its fragments, to portray its writer's feelings.
However, though lacking in comprehensive views such as we have a right to expect from an author who attempts to portray the rise, growth, and full expansion of a literature, the work of M.
His Squire Western and Parson Adams are exquisite, his Allworthy is vapid: deny him strong pigments of individualism, and he is unable to portray strong character.
Of the thousands of paintings of scenes relating to the Crucifixion, where the Virgin is presumed to be in great agony at the foot of the Cross, very rarely has an artist attempted to portray this agony in realistic manner.
PAGE 79 A few distinguished poets have attempted to portray beauty of form by description of features, but they have all been signally unsuccessful.
For how tremendously much he must have experienced, how greatly he must have suffered to be able to portray drama, express profound emotion thus!
As in the other picture he had endeavored to express all the noblest possibilities of the young man's face, in this he labored to portray whatever potentiality of evil might be found there.
Not only do the propensities rouse desire, but they excite the basilar faculties, and portray their wants in the outlines of the face, mould the features to their expression, and flash their significance from the eye.
How shall our feeble pen portray these striking and long to be remembered scenes?
It might be objected that there is now no need to portray the profligacy of that court, which, by arousing the conscience of Northern Europe to a sense of intolerable shame, proved one of the main causes of the Reformation.
Action is analyzed as a branch of the fine arts; and the spirit of the age, of which the philosopher makes himself the hierophant, compels him to portray it as a sinister and evil art.
I shall quote brief extracts in his own words, which portray his system.
It would be impossible to follow and portraythe thousand changes that came over Nina’s spirit during her recovery.
It is impossible for language to portray an agony such as that by which all the faculties of her soul and body seemed absorbed and benumbed.
These are scenes in which he can portray the poet just as he finds him and in which his rivalry is legitimate and, indeed, may tend to make him surpass the poet.
One will portray all bears as very dangerous; another will speak and act as if he deemed them of no more consequence than so many rabbits.
They not only portray passion, which is interesting, but they betray it, which is odious.
The method is, to penetrate by sympathy rather than to portray by intelligence.
They rose at once into a bold dramatic conception of their race's covenant with Heaven: just such a conception as the playwright would seek out in order to portray with awful acceleration the ways of passion and fate.
Imagination is tasked to its utmost stretch to portray sentiments and passions in the way that makes the deepest impression.
It is not enough to portray the varying emotions which sway the mind at a particular moment; to produce a satisfactory whole they have to be fused together.
The second main part, which has to portray the development of dogma, comprehends three stages.
It did not really help the cause of Unionism to portray Fenians and Land Leaguers with baboon-like faces.
No manlier Churchman Trollope ever drew Than History willportray in gentle Tait.
He points to almost everything he mentions in his speech, and would portray every feeling and emotion by means of some bodily movement.
He can be converted into an artist and portray the life of a race by working from the soul outward, only through long, actual, and sympathetic associations with that race.
With what pathos does the prophet Ezekiel portray this pastoral scene when he speaks of the infinite compassion of the divine shepherd of Israel, who never slumbers nor sleeps!
Others portray the grief of the sorely anxious soul amid festivities, whose tumult is unable to drown the profound woe of the heart.
For those who boasted of being his friends, it seems an astonishing thing that they should make Hearn portray his vices, his moral nakedness, so publicly.
Besides, the myopes seek to portray sensations, while the hyperopes especially aim at analysis of the sentiments.
The end is everywhere to portray man in a state of innocence: which means a state of harmony and peace with himself and the external world.
When we express a species or kind by an individual, and portray a conception in a single case, we remove from fancy the chains which the understanding has placed upon her and give her the power to act as a creator.
