A picture or representation of human figures, ought to be done in such a way as that the spectator may easily recognise, by means of their attitudes, the purpose in their minds.
When the smoke from dry wood is seen between the eye of the spectator and some dark space [or object], it will look blue.
The motion of a spectator who sees an object at rest often makes it seem as though the object at rest had acquired the motion of the moving body, while the moving person appears to be at rest.
This will make so little difference when the eye of the spectator moves, that it will be hardly appreciable, and it will look very good.
But this said invention requires the spectator to stand with his eye at a small hole and then, at that small hole, it will be very plain.
It was then that our machine was seen by every spectator within a circuit of nine miles, and it appeared to be right over the heads of all of them.
The young Montgolfier had arrived in Paris prior to the experiment of the 27th of August, and was present as a simplespectator on that occasion.
The Drama presents to the Eyes of a Spectator an Actor, who speaks and acts as the Person, whom he represents, is suppos'd to speak and act in real Life.
The Drama presents to the Eyes of a Spectator an Actor, who speaks and acts as the Person, whom he represents, is suppos’d to speak and act in real Life.
Their little cottage on its shelf, with the rays of its small lamp shining through the window, seemed to be the only spectator of the fells; it talked with them in a lonely companionship.
Phoebe had bowed her head upon the hand which held hers, and there was no spectatorof the feeling in Eugénie's face.
By dint of continual contemplation of the spectacle in front of him, the spectator sees the master no longer; in the spectator, vision confuses with the visible object.
What for the spectator first was a visible object, in him becomes vision, and makes him forget all that he saw around himself.
This deference to the spectator marks the decline of Art from the supremacy of its position as the interpreter of religion to mankind.
An anguished spectator of this failure, she saw in it a sign that Liberty was being strangled at its birth.
A spectator of his death, who suffered for his words--as men must ever suffer for the regardless utterance of Truth--declared that England had not such another head to cut off.
But nevertheless, the more Ellesborough was set on a pinnacle by this enthusiastic friend and spectator of his daily life, the more Rachel's friend trembled for Rachel.
Halsey who knew much of his Bible by heart was inwardly comparing texts.
Lady Alicia was a thin woman, with an excitable temperament, to judge from her restless mouth and eyes, which were never still for a moment.
We are by no means to suppose that Daniel Boone was an unobservant spectator of what was passing even at the time we are speaking of, nor that the doings of the tax-gatherers had nothing to do with his subsequent movements.
The spectator is apt to imagine that nature has formerly suffered some violent convulsion, and that these are the dismembered remains of the dreadful shock; the ruins, not of Persepolis or Palmyra, but of the world!
These walls were now in a dilapidated condition, reminding thespectator of the ruins of an ancient temple.
This is as the foregoing, but with the face (only) turned to the spectator (Fig.
In this case the head of the lion is turned to face the spectator (Fig.
Lion sejant guardant erect is as the last figure, but the head faces the spectator (Fig.
But with Fraser, who had been a silent spectator of the scene, the emotion which Caroline betrayed when the card was read did not pass unnoticed or unremembered.
There was a little metaphorical piece of crockery of this class, who, screened by a huge elbow-chair, had sat a quiet and unobserved spectator of the whole proceedings between her mamma and Master Erasmus Buckthorne.
They are all but dealers in shadowy representations of life; and if the worst among them can set the mind of the spectator at work, he is equal to the best.
Behind each figure are rows of glyphs and in the upper corner to the left of the spectator is the septenary series headed by the initial-sign.
To the right of the spectator stands the priest with a tall hat surmounted by the flower-bud, somewhat resembling a fleur-de-lis.
Its height allows the spectator to overlook the whole city, whilst, too, it is itself a conspicuous object from every direction.
Will Wimble suspects the Spectator of unsoundness in politics, that is, of not being of the Tory persuasion.
Spectator does not care for them as Chaucer cares for the battlefields of his Knight.
In these his character is well maintained, as, for example, at the meeting of the club described in Spectator 34, where he warns the Spectator not to meddle with country squires, but they add no traits to the portrait we already have of him.
Elizabethan would refrain from doing so, but theSpectator will not 'go out of the occurrences of common life, but assert it as a general observation.
As we have stood before these lofty apparitions of the painter's mind, it has seemed to us impossible that the most vulgar spectator could have remained there irreverent.
Some of us, perhaps, may have witnessed the savage exultation of some hardened wretch, when the accidental spectator of an atrocious act.
So persistently did he see her that when he woke he could not shake off the impression that she had been actually, if unaccountably, present, a spectator of his uttermost disgrace.
He could have borne it but for the presence of the other man who had called forth the appalling vision, and remained a spectator of it.
But to Lucia, who knew that tragedy by heart, it was as if she were a mere spectator of a life she herself had once lived passionately and profoundly.
He found that his keenest emotion was a thrill of horror, as he imagined Miss Harden a possible spectator of the ridiculous evolutions performed by his person in its passage through the air.
On the other side of the room, facing the spectator and following the line of the oblique wall, is a second settee.
In the wall facing the spectator are two doors, one on the right, the other on the left.
On the right, in a piece of wall running obliquely towards the spectator from the back wall to the right-hand wall, is a companion double-door to that on the left, with the difference that the panels of the upper part of this door are glazed.
Meantime England, grimly determined to save herself and the Europe essential to her well-being, was not a passive spectator of events in Italy.
Buonaparte was present at the ensuing victories, but only as a well-informed spectator and adviser, for he was yet in nominal disgrace.
I had now an opportunity of ascertaining what a very different thing it is to be a spectator in such a scene, from being an actor.
And that fact alone may well leave the spectator with one final reflection; for it is a matter in which the modern world may well have to learn something from the motley rabble of this remote Eastern town.
