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,... Art and Common Sense - Seite 193von Royal Cortissoz - 1913 - 445 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| National Education Association of the United States - 1911 - 1196 Seiten
...more imagination to leave out than to put in. We read to him from Whistler's Ten O'clock: And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry...city hangs in the heavens, and fairyland is before us .... Then we say to him, "Look for something that is apparently poor and sordid but that becomes beautiful... | |
| Lorettus Sutton Metcalf, Walter Hines Page, Joseph Mayer Rice, Frederic Taber Cooper, Arthur Hooley, Henry Goddard Leach, George Henry Payne, D. G. Redmond - 1911 - 780 Seiten
...contained flagrant falsities, petty conceit, and mean understanding. Scan it for a moment : — " And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry,...hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home ; the working man and the cultured one, the wise man and the one... | |
| National Education Association of the United States - 1911 - 1200 Seiten
...more imagination to leave out than to put in. We read to him from Whistler's Ten O'clock: And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry...city hangs in the heavens, and fairyland is before us .... Then we say to him, "Look for something that is apparently poor and sordid but that becomes beautiful... | |
| National Education Association of the United States - 1911 - 1190 Seiten
...more imagination to leave out than to put in. We read to him from Whistler's Ten O'clock: And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry...the dim sky, and the tall chimneys become Campanili md the warehouses are palaces in the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens, and fairyland... | |
| John Joseph Conway - 1912 - 446 Seiten
...more soulfully than did Whistler in the following lines from the Ten o'Clock : " When the evening's mist clothes the riverside with poetry, as with a...city hangs in the heavens and fairyland is before us — then Nature, who, for once, has sung in tune, sings her exquisite song to the artist alone, her... | |
| Edward Verrall Lucas - 1912 - 264 Seiten
..."Poor buildings," wrote Whistler, who watched their transformation so often from his Chelsea home, "lose themselves in the dim sky, and the tall chimneys...the night, and the whole city hangs in the heavens." It was Dickens who discovered the London of eccentricity, London as the abode of the odd and the quaint,... | |
| Delphian Society, Chicago - 1913 - 614 Seiten
...Whistler wrote as well as painted, and the following extract indicates his poetical conceptions: "When the evening mist clothes the river-side with poetry...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... | |
| 1915 - 684 Seiten
...Now we know what the master meant and felt when in his lecture "Ten O'clock" he said: — "And when the evening mist clothes the riverside with poetry,...hangs in the heavens, and fairy-land is before us — then the wayfarer hastens home; the working man and the cultured one, the wise man and the one... | |
| Joseph Pennell - 1914 - 70 Seiten
...THE POOR BUILDINGS LOSETHEMSELVESINTHEDIMSKYjANDTHETALL CHI M NEYS BECOME СЛЛ/ЯЛЛМ./. ANDTHE WAREHOUSES ARE PALACES IN THE NIGHT, AND THE WHOLE...HANGS IN THE HEAVENS, AND FAIRYLAND IS BEFORE US." XI • N(A¿- ~ „ - • • I ,. HAYMARKET THEATRE THIS FINE BUILDING DATES FROM l82O, THOUGH IT... | |
| Joseph Pennell - 1914 - 78 Seiten
...DARKNESS OR FOG. HE HAS DESCRIBED THE FEELINGS, TO WHICH WE OWE HIS PICTURES, IN AN ELOQUENT PASSAGE: "THE EVENING MIST CLOTHES THE RIVERSIDE WITH POETRY, AS WITH A VEIL, AND THEPOOR BUILDINGS LOSETHEMSELVESINTHE DIM SKY,ANDTHETALL CHIMNEYS BECOME CAMPANILI, AND THE WAREHOUSES... | |
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