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29928Why was he able to do this, and why could it be done without trouble by others after him?
405891550?)
40589As on his shoulders he bears the Lord of the World, can we fail to remark his upturned glance, inquiring why he is thus bowed down by a little child?
40589Christoph Jegher was born in Germany in 1590(?)
40589Is not he famous as a giant?
40589[?
40589[? t] has a sort of streamer to**** the left and curling down.
40589[? t]=_et_ in later times.
40589]=_ er_, or_ re_, as the sense requires,_ e.g._[? t]ra=_terra_,[? p]dictus= predictus,_ i.e.__ prædictus_.
40589]=_ er_, or_ re_, as the sense requires,_ e.g._[? t]ra=_terra_,[? p]dictus= predictus,_ i.e.__ prædictus_.
27268But might not more have been done by three thousand lines to a square inch?
27268Conquered the world?
27268''My hand should be enough for you; what matters my name?''
27268''Oh, little one, must you lie out in the fields then, not even under this poor torn roof of thy mother''s to- night?''
27268( Can Simonetta be traced in any of them?
272681st, Is engraving to be only considered as cut work?
272682d, For present designs multipliable without cutting, by the sunshine, what methods or instruments of drawing will be best?
27268A man who ca n''t help his hiccough leaves the room: why do they not leave the England they pollute?
27268And do you see the size of this head?
27268And what graving on the sacred cliffs of Egypt ever honored them, as that grass- dimmed furrow does the mounds of our Northern land?
27268Are not the leaves and fruits of earth in the Sun''s hand?
27268But are you prepared absolutely to accept this limitation with respect to engraving as a pictorial art?
27268But before you call a man a master, you should ask, Are his pupils greater or less than himself?
27268But do you suppose Holbein himself, or any other Northern painter, could wholly quit himself of the like accusations?
27268But how came the upper church of Assisi there?
27268But how is it that I can drop just the cards I want out of my pack?
27268But is it only of the bones, think you, that Holbein is careless?
27268But is there any reason, do you suppose, for their being neat, and each like the other?
27268But is this necessarily a disadvantage?
27268But that is not a line at all, you think?
27268But what has_ your_ fault been, gentlemen?
27268But what is the use of explaining or analyzing it?
27268But why is a large stone in any building grander than a small one?
27268But why should four unfortunate masters be dropped out?
27268But why, in wood, lines at all?
27268Can you match it with your academy drawings, think you?
27268Do you not continually mistake a luminous cloud for it, or wonder where it is, behind one?
27268Do you suppose Michael Angelo learned his business by dashing or hitting at it?
27268Do you suppose that is not enough to make the difference between mortal and immortal art,--the original genius being supposed alike in both?
27268Do you think Dürer''s work would be better if it were more like that?
27268Even in these days, when every man is, by hypothesis, as good as another, does not the question sound strange to you?
27268FOOTNOTES:[ BH]"Would not the design have looked better, to us, on the plate than on the print?
27268First, then, we ask how they attained this rank;--who taught_ them_ what they were finally best to teach?
27268Have I not good reason to separate the masters of such pupils from the schools they created?
27268Have you ever considered, in the early history of painting, how important also is the history of the frame maker?
27268His chosen works before the Pope in Rome?--his admired Madonnas in Florence?--his choirs of angels and thickets of flowers?
27268How are we to know, then, that he speaks in vain?
27268How came Giotto to be asked to paint upon it?
27268How came it to be vaulted-- to be aisled?
27268How did his studies prosper his art?
27268How far must every people-- how far did this Florentine people-- teach its masters, before_ they_ could teach_ it_?
27268How much have you received, or may you yet receive, think you, of that teaching?
27268I despise the poor!--do I, think you?
27268I mean, will the virtue of an engraving be in exhibiting these imperfect means of its effect, or in concealing them?
27268If it need not be cut work, but only the reproduction of a drawing, what methods of executing a light- and- shade drawing will be best?
27268In writing our Florentine Dunciad, or History of Fools, can we possibly begin with a better day than All Fools''Day?
27268Is all engraving to be cut work?
27268Is beauty contrary to law, and grace attainable only through license?
27268Is it not also better, and wiser, than the sneer of modern science?
27268Is it so here, think you?
27268Is it so vain to study the style of Botticelli?
27268Is not that a little better, and a little wiser, than Bewick''s jackass?
27268Is the sun''s likely to be so, rising on the evil and the good?
27268Lastly, what will the Libyan Sibyl say to you?
27268May no soldier of Christ bid them stay otherwise than so?
27268Must then setting sun and risen moon stay, he thinks, only to look upon slaughter?
27268On the plate, the reins would be in the left hand; and the whole movement be from the left to the right?
27268Rembrandt''s etchings, and Lupton''s mezzotints, and Le Keux''s line- work,--do you mean to tell us that these ignore light and shade?''
27268Shall he worship Thor again, and mourn over the death of Balder?
27268So contemptible the question of style, then, in painting, though not in literature?
27268That makes twenty- five altogether,--an exorbitant demand on your attention, you still think?
27268The Nations ask her, What wouldst thou?
27268The two different forms that the radiance takes would symbolize respectively heat and light, would they not?"
27268Too savage to be Christian?
27268Twenty!--you think that a grievous number?
27268Well,_ do n''t_ you, usually, as it rises?
27268What answer would you make to me, if I asked casually what engraving was?
27268What are the simplest means you can produce it with?
27268What is the habit of soul of every modern engraver?
27268What is the reason?
27268What then, we have to ask, is a man_ conscious of_ in what he sees?
27268What we gain in language, shall we lose in thought?
27268What would that be, think you?
27268What, on the contrary, has ignorant Holbein done for you?
27268Whence do you think this marvelous charm has come?
27268Which of these methods is the best?--or have they, each and all, virtues to be separately studied, and distinctively applied?
27268Who thought of these;--who built?
27268Why do you think the goldsmith''s apprenticeship is so fruitful?
27268Why is the English one vulgar?
27268Why not cut out white_ spaces_, and use the chisel as if its incisions were so much white paint?
27268Why, then, is it_ not_ immortal?
27268Will these two powers, do you suppose, be united in the same manner in the contemporary Northern art?
27268Will you call nothing an engraving, except a group of furrows or cavities cut in a hard substance?
27268Yes, but_ what_ art?
27268Yes; but do you not see, nearly joining with them, what is not a horse tail at all; but a flame of fire, kindled at Apollo''s knee?
27268You know how far from exemplary or delightful your boy''s first quite voluntary exercises in white line drawing on your slate were?
27268You thought it ugly and grotesque at first, did not you?
27268You would think, would you not?
27268[ AN] It may be asked, why not corn also?
27268[ BP] The engraving of Turner''s"Scene on the Rhine"( near Bingen?)
27268and in what we add of labor, more and more forget its ends?
27268do you ask me; and is all the common teaching about generalization of details true, then?
27268if we knew, would not we all be Gainsboroughs?
27268what the patrons''fault, who have permitted so wide waste of admirable labor, so pathetic a uselessness of obedient genius?
27268with the brass plate over the way; and of a virgin, Miss---- of the---- theater?