In Romola George Eliot portrays the character and acts of this great reformer with a legitimate intensifying, for artistic purposes, of the certified facts of history.

If Acredale had not been for a century the ancestral seat of the Spragues, and in its widest sense typical of the suburban Northern town, there would be merely an objective and extrinsic interest in portraying its sequestered life, its monotonous activities.

The object of this "Hall of Fame" is not necessarily to portray the very top men of each department of the national game, for it frequently happens in these days, when players take part in only a few innings now and then, that they become entitled to mention in the records, although they do not bear the real brunt of the work.

In Canto III I have portrayed the "tender passion" and its melancholy result on the hill-sidea fitting illustration of the fact that the course of true love never did run smooth, especially if there were big rocks to knock one's toes against.

Indeed, no person can portray Nature from any slight or transient acquaintance.

This work vividly portrays conditions among the refugees assembled at points in South Carolina.]

Imagination is tasked to its utmost stretch to portray sentiments and passions in the way that makes the deepest impression.

And if I portrayed the scene with anything like adequate skill, the picture you will have retained of this Fink-Nottle will have been that of a nervous wreck, sagging at the knees, green about the gills, and picking feverishly at the lapels of his coat in an ecstasy of craven fear.

To those who saw and comprehended this "Pietà" in 1500, it must have been evident that a new power of portraying the very soul had been manifested in sculpturea power unknown to the Greeks because it lay outside the sphere of their spiritual experience, and unknown to modern artists because it was beyond their faculties of execution and conception.

They have not ceased the endeavor to lend dignity to life by portraying its nobler features.

When Hinguar and Hubba had heard of the death of their father, Regnar Lodbrog, and had resolved to avenge him, while they were calling together their followers, their three sisters in one day wove for them this war-flag, in the midst of which was portrayed the figure of a raven.

then wherefore gaze Upon thy silent shadow there, Which so imperfectly portrays The form thy features used to wear?

He takes the legend of the Holy Grail, and uses it to portray wonderfully and thrillingly the Christian truths of the beauty, the glory, and the inspiring power of the Lord's Supper, and the infinite meaning of the redeeming love of the Cross.

In such a sense, indeed, there is materia amorofica in music, for with music one canor at least one didshow forth the very rhythm of Tristanic desire, and another portrayed in unexpurgated harmonies the garden-mood of Faust and Marguerite.

But while she stood still and silent before me, the effulgent radiance that had almost blinded my vision, after a time left it unobscured, and I was able so to portray her every aspect to my mind, as her whole beauteous figure was impressed on my memory.

They portray a temporal ruler; but the spirit which actuates him and the principles which guide him are noble and unselfish.

My fancy wanders as I thus portray The lineaments on which 'tis bliss to gaze: How beautiful their prototype!

He himself said of the greatest of his Storm and Stress dramas that he had attempted to portray humanity before he really knew humanity.

Both authors portray the love of a woman, and there the similarity ends.

Hers was a tell-tale faceit portrayed every emotion.

The old Mona people; the Malaki, who portrayed the Bagobo's ideal of manhood; and the noble lady called Bia,these and other well-marked characters figure in the ulit.

But as soon as his countenance became animated by speaking, I found it was one which portrayed the noblest qualities of the heart and head beaming with intelligence, benevolence, and frankness.

Though conflict may not be essential to drama, yet, when you set forth to portray a struggle, you may as well make it as real and intense as possible.

I read the poem with the objects before me, and was overpowered by the sympathies and recollections which must be familiar to all men, for most men have felt as Byron felt, though few ever portrayed their feelings with such energy of thought and language.

It was consequently for the interest of the master, when an apprentice applied for an appraisement, to portray his virtues, while on the other hand there was an inducement for the apprentice to conceal or actually to renounce his good qualities, and foster the worst vices.