A concrete narrative or portrayal may be given weight and rationalized by generalization.

For pure fun and hilarity Pickwick will always be a favorite; but for artistic finish, and for the portrayal of one great character, Sydney Carton, nothing else that Dickens wrote is comparable to A Tale of Two Cities.

Matthew Arnold said of her that, "for the portrayal of passion, vehemence, and grief," Emily Brontë had no equal save Byron.

Shakespeare succeeded in interesting the Elizabethans by embodying in story and incident his portrayal of character.

Kipps is a bitter but strong portrayal of the pretense and hypocrisy of society and of its inertia in responding to human needs, and Marriage is a subtle, psychological analysis of a conjugal misunderstanding and an attempted readjustment.

And since my aim is the portrayal of character and influence, rather than the narration of historical annals, I have omitted vast numbers of interesting details, selecting only those of salient and vital importance.

There was, therefore, a combination of Lux et Veritas in the blood of young Louis Stevenson, which in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde took the form of a luminous portrayal of a great moral idea.

It is a portrayal of life by means of a mechanism so devised as to bring it home to a considerable number of people assembled in a given place.

Historically, too, we find that drama has everywhere originated in the portrayal of an actionsome exploit or some calamity in the career of some demigod or hero.

" The portrayal of these writers of this phase of Reconstruction history contains a general truth, but in some cases the picture is overdrawn.

The story of Benoni, with its continuation Rosa, is in like vein; a tenderly humorous portrayal of love below stairs, the principal characters being chosen from the class who appear as supers in Pan; subjects or retainers of the all-powerful Trader Mack.

As to Loeben's lyrics, they are irregular, inconsistent, and odd as to orthography, melodious and flowing in form, poor in ideas, rich in feeling that frequently sounds forced, representative of nearly all the important Germanic, Romance, and Oriental verse and strophe forms, reminiscent of his reading in many instances, and romantic as a whole, especially in their constant portrayal of longing.

In the village of Ford, the walls of the schoolroom are decorated by a series of pictures of the children of Scripture story, for whose portrayal it is said the Marchioness of Waterford, the artist, took the village children as models.

While inviting younger friends to elaborate this idyllic portrayal, I may merely note, briefly and sympathetically, how this rural joy was troubled by the passing away of a dear woman friend who resided with them, and then by the death of his esteemed and careful consort.

She remembered that Brigham sat with four of his wives in one of the boxes, enthusiastically applauding that portrayal of a single love.

Such a portrayal is what we might perhaps expect from a Mughal edition.

[Illustration] PLATE 11 The Stealing of the Clothes Illustration to the Bhagavata Purana Kangra, Punjab Hills, c. 1790 J.K. Mody collection, Bombay Despite the Indian delight in sensuous charm, the nude was only rarely depicted in Indian paintingfeelings of reverence and delicacy forbidding too unabashed a portrayal of the feminine physique.

This portrayal of the girl as the chief lover is quite the custom in Hindoo literature, and doubtless mirrors life as it was and is.

Hindoo poets, like others, know how to rise above sordid reality into a more ideal sphere, and for this reason, even if we had found in the dramas of India a portrayal of true love, it would not prove that it existed outside of a poet's glowing and prophetic fancy.

You find yourself exclaiming: 'Ah, there is something here Unfathomed by the cynic's sneer!' As you gaze at the portrayal so strangely weird in form and color you ask yourself where have I felt that, seen this, before?

This portrayal of character may be aided by the use of description.

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The braggart, the miser, the hypocrite, contain that one trait which is common to the class; and in their portrayal this characteristic only is shown.

As these historic generalizations dissolve in national decay, art breaks up in individual portrayal of less embracing types; the glorification of the Greek man in Achilles yields place to the corruptions of the homunculus; and in general the literature of nationality gives way to the unmeaning and transitory literature of a society interested in its vices, superstitions, and sensations.

In his portrayal of the fortunes of this doomed race, Aeschylus departed in important particulars, with gain in dramatic effect, from the story as it is read in Homer.