" "But what do you think of me as a painter-man?" inquired the bewildering youth.

"The painter chap, eh?" Then Margaret's face flamed in a wonderful glow of shame and happiness and pride that must have made the surrounding roses very hopelessly jealous.

another retreatShe is requested by Parliament to leave the countryPhilip of Spain refuses to afford her an asylumShe proceeds to Holland, and thence to AntwerpThe painter-princeA voluntary

For though a painter boughs and leaves can make, 'Tis you alone can make them bend and shake; Whose breath salutes your new-created grove, Like southern winds, and makes it gently move.

Russian Hill, of which Nob Hill is a southward shoulder, is the habitat of many of the writer and painter folk of San Francisco.

The good Abbot of San Lucas, clad in his pontifical robes, with his jeweled mitre, his surplice and his golden crozier reclined, king of the choir, in a large armchair, amid all his clergy, who were impassive men with silver hair, and who surrounded him like the confessing saints whom the painters group round the Lord.

"'Tis the same conquered, slavish look the painter hath put into the lion's face when Ariadne is by," mused Calvert to himself.

"'Nough t' mek a painter ketch 'is breath, they wus.

exclaimed the captain, as he caught the painter line thrown out to him by Merritt, and skillfully made the boat fast.

I visited also Mr. Turner, the best landscape painter living, and was introduced to him....

Thus painters Cupid paint, thus poets doe A naked god, blind, young, with arrows two.

As in the highest developments of the fine arts the sculptor and painter place before us the finest imaginative types of strength, grace, and beauty, so the silent artist, civilisation, approaches nearer and nearer to perfection, and by evolution of form and mind developes what is practically a new order of physical and mental build.

art thou but a ray Of intellect, emerg'd from one? and shrin'd, That thine immortal light may dim the day, Faint struggling thro' some lowlier, cloudier, mind: Dream of the painter-poet!

When she sat with her harp at the window in the evening twilight, the last rays of the setting sun gilding her sweet countenance, and surrounding as with a halo her beautiful blond hair, Josephine imagined she saw before her one of those angel-forms of innocence and love which the poet and painter portray.

Nothing, in short, but plumed hats sweeping the marble floor, flexile forms bending to the earth, and lips wreathed in smiles, was to be seen in the kingly hall in which Henri IV had loved to discuss grave topics with his sturdy minister, the Duc de Sully, and which Marie de Medicis, in her day of pride and power, had enriched with the glorious productions of her immortal protégé, Rubens the painter-prince, as she was wont to call him.

This rope was then passed over the bows and in through the painter ring, and thence to the forrard thwarts, where it was made fast, and we gave attention to parcel it with odd strips of canvas against danger of chafe.

I'll have Pounceby the painter score upon our painted cloth at home all the whole story of our going a-nutting this Holyrood-day; and he shall paint me up triumphing over the miller.

Lastly his shinie wings, as silver bright, Painted with thousand colours passing farre 90 All painters skill, he did about him dight: Not halfe so manie sundrie colours arre In Iris bowe; ne heaven doth shine so bright, Distinguished with manie a twinckling starre; Nor Iunoes bird, in her ey-spotted traine, 95 So manie goodly colours doth containe.

Then he spreads his "painter-skin," and "turns in;" for nothing will induce the old man to sleep within the four walls of a house.

"Keep one turn round the bitt, and heave in on it when the painter slacks.

There was a wild yell; the horse leaped and ran, breaking through a fence and wrecking the wagon; the painter spat, and made for the woods, and was seen no more of men.

Then he added confidentially "I'm a hoose-painter tae a trade.

The youthful painter talks of white-bearded Leonardo as if he were a brother, and the veteran forgets that Raphael died at an age to which his own is of patriarchal antiquity.

He created the Painting Academy, an institution which mainly gave official recognition to painters in form of titles which gave the painter access to and status at court.

Hardly had the white scratches on these ruddy surfaces been doctored by the house painter whenwhisk!