There is little scenery-painting, few wayside reflections, and no attempt at portraying the comic side of human nature, or even the ordinary gayety of domestic life.
Mr. Hawthorne had no idea of portraying me in Hilda.
The frequent question as to whether Hawthorne drew from his family or friends in portraying human nature shows an unfamiliarity with literary art.
Or, if he is portraying an astronomer, he introduces a quadrant, dials, compasses, and other instruments of the craft.
No sooner was Giovanni da Udine's invention known than it must have been adopted by Ferrarese artists, for here we find Mazzolino portraying it in the background of his picture.
Goya, who has been called the Hogarth of Spain, specially delighted in satirising the clergy, whose enchantments and incantations he parodied, and whom he was fond of portraying in the form of asses or apes.
He is not content with producing an obvious likeness in the flesh; he strives at portrayingor suggesting some spiritual idea in all his sitters.
It would be vain to attempt portraying Lord Randolph's amazement on receipt of this note; he was preparing to leave his apartment to dine with some friends when it reached him.
And this man, so talented in portrayingthe human face, was powerless on it to read the breaking heart!
The chief seats of all, however, the places on the dais and under the canopy, are reserved for the few who have excelled in the difficult art of portraying characters in which no single feature is extravagantly overcharged.
He conscientiously forbore to urge Northwick to return, but he could not help portraying the flattering possibilities of such a course.
Early figures portraying the teaching of anatomy (Plate XXVII and Figs.
The most important use of description in connection with narration is that of portraying character.
They are quite as necessary as long ones, and in some cases, such as the portraying of strong emotion, are more effective.
In portraying the contrasted passions of joy for Antonio's losses and grief for Jessica's elopement he poured forth all his fire.
He now, for the third time, finds in his Plutarch a subject which not only responds to the mood of the moment, but also gives him an opportunity for portraying a notable mother; and he is irresistibly drawn to give his material dramatic style.
And portraying herself in the narrative as Catherine Earnshaw, her hero became M.
Methods which were responsible for her first portraying herself as the elder Catherine of Wuthering Heights and then as the younger Catherine, in which work M.
So proud were the Constable and his wife (Madeleine de Savoie) of their five sons and seven daughters that we find four pairs of windows portraying them.
The object of your training in drawing should be to develop to the uttermost the observation of form and all that it signifies, and your powers of accurately portraying this on paper.
The recognized methods of describing characters in fiction may be used to advantage in portraying real persons.
Eight years ago the Henry Street Settlement started its scheme of festivals and pantomimes, portraying through the medium of color, song, and dance such vague ideas as "Impressions of Spring.
Ability to write well enough to make the average person see as clearly, feel as keenly, and understand as well as he does himself the persons and things that he is portraying and explaining, is obviously the sine qua non of success.
The poet has also shewn considerable address in portraying the character of Chrysis, who was supposed to be the sister of Glycerium, but had died previous to the commencement of the action.
We are naturally led to compare with Catullus, the efforts of his own countrymen, particularly those of Ovid and Virgil, in portraying the agonies of deserted nymphs and princesses.
As for her literary work proper, her desire to write was possibly encouraged, if not created, by her indulgence in the general fad of writing portraitures, in which she was especially successful in portraying Mme.
There was no pretension to truth in the portrayingof manners and customs.
He declared that Birkbeck and Fearon had deceived the people of England by portraying America as better than it was.
In December, 1824, the Illinois legislature sent a memorial to Congress portraying the evils of sparse settlement, and asking that land that had been offered for sale for five years or more might be sold at fifty cents per acre.
