A study of these was of especial service in helping him to acquire that skill which enabled him to produce the masterpieces of his third or English period.

All of us are conscious of the fact that, given a love of work, and the capacity for it seems almost illimitableas witness Napoleon, with his thousand-man power, or Shakespeare, who in twenty years could write more than twenty masterpieces.

Let's see it; may I?" Harris picked up a couple of sheets of paper from the desk and, coughing imposingly, proceeded to read out his masterpiece: "Lionel Marchant came slowly out of the hangar, drawing on his long fur gloves and studying his maps with an intent and keen face.

And with the impression of its solemn beauty was blent a despairing awe of the artist who, of a little coloured earth, had created such a masterpiece of vitality, thrown on to a thin screen of canvas so enduringly palpable, so sumptuous, and so poignantly dominating a reflection of his visions.

He stood back and admired his masterpiece.

If it were as easy to write a good last act as a good first act, we should be able to reckon three masterpieces for every one that we can name at present.

Lovelier by far than Rye, not only in itself, but because of what it offers you, those views of hill and marsh and sea with Rye itself, like I know not what little masterpiece of Flemish art, in the middle distance eastward, Winchelsea is a place never to be left or at worst never to be forgotten.

The Second Mrs. Tanqueray (1893) is by most critics considered Pinero's masterpiece.

At the same time, Michelangelo's influence was undeniable, and we cannot ignore the testimony of those who conversed with both great artistsof Julius himself, for instance, when he said to Sebastian del Piombo: "Look at the work of Raffaello, who, after seeing the masterpieces of Michelangelo, immediately abandoned Perugino's manner, and did his utmost to approach that of Buonarroti.

No matter how insignificant socially is the figure chosen by Sienkiewicz for his story, the great talent of the author magnifies its striking features, not seen by common people, and makes of it a masterpiece of literary art.

Indeed, I venture to pronounce it his masterpiece.

As Englishmen often visited Italy, they soon began to study Grecian masterpieces, and to fall under the spell of Homer and the Athenian dramatists.

To these succeeded that masterpiece of the culinary art a grand Battalia Pie, in which the bodies of chickens, pigeons, and rabbits were embalmed in spices, cocks' combs, and savoury balls, and well bedewed with one of those rich sauces of claret, anchovy, and sweet herbs in which our grandfathers delighted, and which was technically termed a Lear.

All this time Billy was junketing abroad, where every year he painted masterpieces for the Salon, whichon account of a nefarious conspiracy among certain artists, jealous of his superior meritswere invariably refused.

He took Fielding's masterpiece, degraded it, and debased it; he wrote to the papers that Fielding was a genius in spite of his coarseness, thereby inferring that he was a much greater genius since he had sojourned in this Scotch house of literary ill-fame.

A man who has not been taught to swim may rationally be excused for preferring to sit upon the bank; and should he elect to ornament his idleness with protestations that he is self-evidently an excellent swimmer, because once upon a time his progenitors were the only people in the world who had the slightest conception of how to perform a natatorial masterpiece, the thing is simply human nature.

The Duomo is an edifice of the Romanesque period, and contains some masterpieces by Mino da Fiesole.

Had we possessed this epoch-making masterpiece, we should probably have known Michelangelo's genius in its flower-period of early ripeness, when anatomical learning was still combined with a sustained dependence upon Nature.

Then he paused with folded arms to contemplate this masterpiece of M. Boule.

To do more than briefly indicate the masterpieces of these three periods, would be impossible in a work that does not pretend to treat of architecture exhaustively: and yet to omit all notice of the builders of this age and of their styles, would be to neglect the most important art-phase of the time I have undertaken to illustrate.

This picture has excited the admiration of connoisseurs, as well as others, and it is universally proclaimed a masterpiece.

And, therefore, Goethe, Platen, Rückert, von Schack, Fitzgerald, and Arnold have been able to re-sing their masterpieces so as to delight and instruct our own daysof which thing neither India nor Arabia can boast.

It was not until the year 1233, or 1237, according to different modern calculations, that he executed his first masterpiece in sculpture.

Between these two problem novels she published her masterpiece, Cranford, in 1853.

"There never was exhibited such another masterpiece of ghostly assurance.