The Furnishing of a Modest HomeDavis Press, 1908 - 114 Seiten |
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adequate appear architecture artist background beautiful blue Bokhara Rug brown burlap carpet ceiling chair charming cheap cheer cloth coat color scheme Corot curtains dark decoration delight desire dining room door draperies dust enter fashioned fireplace Fitness to Purpose floor flowers foreign rugs four poster bed frame furniture gray green guest hall hang hardwood house furnishing hung ideal illustrations Infanta Marguerite interest Japanese light lines LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS living room Madonna matting MODEST HOME Monument to Lysicrates naturalistic design object offered orange Oriental rug painted painter pattern photographs piazza PICTURES AND CASTS poor taste portièrre portraits Praxiteles problem Rembrandt seen sideboards simple SMALL ORNAMENTS sofa cushion strong suggests things tone tree true umbrella unless unpretentious varnished vase Venetian red vertical violet visitor wall covering wall paper Walter Scott warm colors woodwork yellow
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Seite 57 - And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens...
Seite 11 - Yes, I know you do. If you intend to keep that notion, I have no word more to say to you. Fare you — not well, for you cannot ; but as you may. But if you have sense, and feeling, determine what sort of a house will be fit for you ; — determine to work for it — to get it — and to die in it, if the Lord will.
Seite 94 - Who draws a line and satisfies his soul, Making it crooked where it should be straight ? An idiot with an oyster-shell may draw His lines along the sand, all wavering, Fixing no point or pathway to a point; An idiot one remove may choose his line, Straggle and be content ; but God be praised, Antonio Stradivari has an eye That winces at false work and loves the true, With hand and arm that play upon the...
Seite 18 - To each fine impulse ? a discerning sense Of decent and sublime, with quick disgust From things deform'd, or disarranged, or gross In species'! This, nor gems, nor stores of gold, Nor purple state, nor culture can bestow; But God alone when first his active hand Imprints the secret bias of the soul He, mighty parent!
Seite 12 - Fit ! — but what do you mean by fit ? ' I mean, one that you can entirely enjoy and manage ; but •which you will not be proud of, except as you make it charming in its modesty.
Seite 18 - A talent for any art is rare, but it is given to nearly every one to cultivate a taste for art; only it must be cultivated with earnestness. " The more things thou learnest to know and to enjoy, the more complete and full will be for thee the delight of living.
Seite 114 - That Nature is always right is an assertion artistically as untrue as it is one whose truth is universally taken for granted. Nature is very rarely right to such an extent even that it might almost be said that Nature is usually wrong; that is to say, the condition of things that shall bring about the perfection of harmony worthy a picture is rare and not common at all.
Seite 57 - The sun blares, the wind blows from the east, the sky is bereft of cloud, and without, all is of iron. The windows of the Crystal Palace are seen from all points of London. The holiday-maker rejoices in the glorious day, and the painter turns aside to shut his eyes.
Seite 91 - That's somewhat: and you'll find the soul you have missed, Within yourself, when you return him thanks.
Seite 95 - He thought little of recasting a chapter in order to obtain a more lucid arrangement, and nothing whatever of reconstructing a paragraph for the sake of one happy stroke or apt illustration. Whatever the worth of his labor, at any rate it was a labor of love. Antonio Stradivari has an eye That winces at false work, and loves the true.