5973 examples of portraits in sentences

All the portraits of him are singularly characteristic.

A ground is thus provided for the numerous portraits of which the author's large experience furnished the originals, and for lessons of practical wisdom derived from his close observation of men and things and his lifelong reflection thereon.

No poet but Shakspeare, and scarcely Shakspeare, has set before the world so rich a gallery of female portraits.

They are those who take part in the incidents, religious, civil, and political, of the period, and are, for the most part, both in speech and bearing, the portraits familiar to us in Mr. Froude's history.

His portraits, however, were in several shops and in many newspapers.

Among his books are "Types of American Character," "A Pageant of Life," "The Private Tutor," "Between Two Masters," "Matthew Porter," "Lee, the American," "Confederate Portraits," "Union Portraits," "A Naturalist of Souls," and "Portraits of American Women."

Among his books are "Types of American Character," "A Pageant of Life," "The Private Tutor," "Between Two Masters," "Matthew Porter," "Lee, the American," "Confederate Portraits," "Union Portraits," "A Naturalist of Souls," and "Portraits of American Women."

Among his books are "Types of American Character," "A Pageant of Life," "The Private Tutor," "Between Two Masters," "Matthew Porter," "Lee, the American," "Confederate Portraits," "Union Portraits," "A Naturalist of Souls," and "Portraits of American Women."

" Our intercourse with the Sioux was greatly facilitated, and our influence over them much increased, by the success attending my husband's efforts to paint their portraits.

There are several portraits of him in existence; three by Webber, one being in the National Portrait Gallery; one by Hodges; and one or two others by unknown artists.

On 11th April the ships reached the Cape, where the officers were cordially received by Governor Plattenberg, who expressed the deepest regret to hear of the loss of Cook, and requested that he should be sent a portrait of the Captain to place in a blank space he pointed out between two portraits of De Ruyter and Van Trompa gracious compliment.

Certainly, some of his portraits are fixtures, and will do to hang up as lasting and lively emblems of human infirmity.

I take it that he was now making another collection of portraits of poets and was asking other poets, their friends, to write verses upon them.

[The suggestion had been made to Lamb, through Barron Field, that he should write a descriptive catalogue of Charles Mathews' collection of theatrical portraits; Lamb having already touched upon them in his "Old Actors" articles in the London Magazine (see Vol.

When he heard of the result of the Battle of Waterloo, and that Bonaparte was in full retreat upon Paris, he said, "I'm dd sorry for it!" Mr. Murray, about this time, began to adorn his dining-room with portraits of the distinguished men who met at his table.

His portraits include those of Gifford, [Footnote: This portrait was not painted for Mr. Murray, but was purchased by him.] by Hoppner, R.A.; Byron and Southey, by Phillips; Scott and Washington Irving, by Stewart Newton; Croker, by Eddis, after Lawrence; Coleridge, Crabbe, Mrs. Somerville, Hallam, T. Moore, Lockhart, and others.

Byron and Southey were asked to sit for their portraits to Phillips.

Around him hung rude portraits of the chiefs of Wedderburn, and on the walls were suspended their arms and the spoils of their victories.

he continued; and he paced hurriedly for a few minutes across the apartment, casting a rapid glance upon the portraits of his ancestors.

You want the papers full of the whole affair, with portraits of the principals, and a description of your romantic" "God forbid!" "How like a man!

PRICE, CHESTER B. Portraits of ten country houses.

She saw before her a long vista of darkened and solitary rooms, dim portraits of the marshals of France just visible on their walls.

But she was far away: and as he worked at the completion of his series of 'Months,' or at various portraits which the kindness or compassion of old friends had procured for him, he fell headlong into all his worst faults.

His angry vanity suspected that while he was now thought incapable of the poetic or imaginative work in which he had once excelled, he was still considered'like any fool'good enough for portraits.

Most of the many portraits which are reproduced in its pages are correct likenesses, but it is the pen pictures which give the book its value.

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