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Gems of European Art Volume . 1; The Best Pictures of the Best Schools.cSamuel Carter Hall
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Author: Samuel Carter Hall
Number of Pages: 66 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781232262572
File size: 43 Mb
Download Link: Gems of European Art Volume . 1; The Best Pictures of the Best Schools
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...of us, whenever they can. Gipsies have less employment on Fridays, in unravelling the future, though they are much consulted still by old and young. Simple beings that we are, with all our wisdom! we like to pry into futurity by any means, no matter how odd or how humble; and though we laugh, and seem to scorn such, we think over the harmless prophesy, and look for a cloud in the heavens, be the sun ever so bright, if the cat has passed her paw three times over the left ear! We do our best to unidealize everything in these days. Nobody reads poetry. We calculate everything by its utility--and yet superstition, with its attendant tribe of signs and signals, its dreams and omens, its whisperings and its shadows, has as strong a hold as ever upon the multitude. But Mr. Crowley's beautiful and truthful picture, which has been so admirably translated by Mr. Sharpe, has reference only to the superstition of "Cup-tossing," as it is practised in the sister kingdom. The head of the old woman is remarkably fine and expressive--a specimen of ancient beauty of no ordinary character; indeed, Mistress Margaret O'Brian was one of the most pictorial-looking old dames we have ever seen--tall, with a powerful, rather than a keen or prying eye; more prone to dictate to fortune, than to obey its mandate. Fond as the Irish are of abbreviating every name, or if it happen to be one that will not be abbreviated, lengthening it, Mistress Margaret O'Brian's was never interfered with; it would have been an act of rural high-treason to call her "Peggy;" indeed, no one ever dreamed of such a thing. There was a quiet mystery about her, that increased the respect N. J. CROWLEY. in which she was held--she dressed richly, wore solid rings, and though she spoke with the ...
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Gems of European Art Volume . 1; The Best Pictures of the Best Schools.cSamuel Carter Hall
Author: Samuel Carter Hall
Number of Pages: 66 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781232262572
File size: 43 Mb
Download Link: Gems of European Art Volume . 1; The Best Pictures of the Best Schools
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1846 Excerpt: ...of us, whenever they can. Gipsies have less employment on Fridays, in unravelling the future, though they are much consulted still by old and young. Simple beings that we are, with all our wisdom! we like to pry into futurity by any means, no matter how odd or how humble; and though we laugh, and seem to scorn such, we think over the harmless prophesy, and look for a cloud in the heavens, be the sun ever so bright, if the cat has passed her paw three times over the left ear! We do our best to unidealize everything in these days. Nobody reads poetry. We calculate everything by its utility--and yet superstition, with its attendant tribe of signs and signals, its dreams and omens, its whisperings and its shadows, has as strong a hold as ever upon the multitude. But Mr. Crowley's beautiful and truthful picture, which has been so admirably translated by Mr. Sharpe, has reference only to the superstition of "Cup-tossing," as it is practised in the sister kingdom. The head of the old woman is remarkably fine and expressive--a specimen of ancient beauty of no ordinary character; indeed, Mistress Margaret O'Brian was one of the most pictorial-looking old dames we have ever seen--tall, with a powerful, rather than a keen or prying eye; more prone to dictate to fortune, than to obey its mandate. Fond as the Irish are of abbreviating every name, or if it happen to be one that will not be abbreviated, lengthening it, Mistress Margaret O'Brian's was never interfered with; it would have been an act of rural high-treason to call her "Peggy;" indeed, no one ever dreamed of such a thing. There was a quiet mystery about her, that increased the respect N. J. CROWLEY. in which she was held--she dressed richly, wore solid rings, and though she spoke with the ...
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