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,... "Ten O'clock," - Seite 15von James McNeill Whistler - 1888 - 29 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1905 - 606 Seiten
...often-quoted passage in his ' Ten o'clock ' with a sympathy not due to the words alone : ' And when evening mist clothes the river-side with poetry, as...themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become canpanili, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and... | |
| 1906 - 1232 Seiten
...Whistler has supplemented the record of his impression with the brush by this record with the pen : " And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with...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, and... | |
| 1907 - 682 Seiten
...as the Infanta's hoops to Velasquez. He discloses the city at a time, to use his own perfect words, "when the evening mist clothes the riverside with...buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the warehouses are palaces in the dusk, and the whole city hangs in the heavens." Because these delicate... | |
| Edward Livermore Burlingame, Robert Bridges, Alfred Sheppard Dashiell, Harlan Logan - 1915 - 814 Seiten
...subjects can be as noble as the other, as Whistler proved, when he showed for the first time how in London "the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become campanile, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens and... | |
| Gerard Baldwin Brown - 1891 - 352 Seiten
...beneath a veil of shadow. Here is what a painter of to-day has said about nightfall on the Thames : ' And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with...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, and... | |
| John Miller Gray - 1895 - 188 Seiten
...which we thank him, though it has been produced in defiance of his own code of artistic ethics : ' When the evening mist clothes the river-side with...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, and... | |
| James McNeill Whistler - 1896 - 40 Seiten
...have, in our ear, the ring of religion. Still, seldom does Nature succeed in producing a picture. 15 iron. The windows of the Crystal Palace are seen from...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, and... | |
| Richard Muther - 1896 - 900 Seiten
...Preraphaelite landscape is cited as an example of the inartistic character of prosaic delineation of nature. " And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with...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, and... | |
| 1898 - 656 Seiten
...the ordinary way with cold water. A. FEEBLE SMITH. WHEN the evening's mist clothes tne river's side with poetry, as with a veil, and the poor buildings lose themselves in the dim sky, the tall chimneys become campanile, and the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city... | |
| Elbert Hubbard - 1902 - 224 Seiten
...sake of seeing, is, with the mass alone, the one to be gratified, hence the delight in detail. But when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry,...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, and... | |
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