| 单词 | limner |
| 例句 | Before photography, limners went around the country and they painted portraits of people. How Ed Sullivan, girls gone wild, a manicured alligator and blind painting shaped the art of Kim Dingle 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z So I’m looking at this portrait of so-and-so as a little girl and she is standing there with this total old-man face because the limner wasn’t any good. How Ed Sullivan, girls gone wild, a manicured alligator and blind painting shaped the art of Kim Dingle 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z New England folk art and furniture are more prominent than ever, with limner portraits, including at least three by the self-taught painter Ammi Philips being especially notable this year. Art Review: The Cornucopia Known as the Winter Antiques Show 2014-01-23T22:45:34Z No limner's hand ever drew a more faithful picture than the one I have of her even now engraved on the tablet of my heart. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z It is very natural that these "limners," to use a favourite designation then applied to artists, were not of the best. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z To a certain extent photography, quoad art, is wrong and the limner is right. Patroclus and Penelope A Chat in the Saddle 2012-03-26T02:00:39.977Z It is well:" said he, "thou are a good limner; and fever is a great spur to the imagination. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z Was the simper more full of meaning than it used to be, or was it merely the limner's conventional flattery? My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z O where and O where shall we find them, With the waistcoat so full, and the shovel-hat on, As our limners in their days designed them? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 62, Feb 3, 1872 2012-02-10T03:00:16.947Z We have noticed some miniature painters, or "limners in little," who flourished in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, when miniature painting had among its greatest masters Samuel Cooper, who has never been surpassed. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z The two young gentlemen laughed over Mr. Canticle's prophecies, and excused his loquacity because he had been a limner till the vogue for foreign painters compelled him to apply his art in another direction. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z "Do you know, I can never get over the idea that 'limner' is something immoral—indecent," said Val. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z As it is, you might imagine his sketches to be the result of the combined simultaneous efforts of two artists—one the delicate limner, the other the vulgar dauber and scene-painter above spoken of. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 2011-10-21T02:00:17.417Z No word-painting can convey the deep, intense enthusiasm, the reverential attention, of that vast assembly, nor limner transfer to canvas their earnest, eager, awe-struck countenances. The Works of Daniel Webster, Volume 1 2011-07-27T02:00:32.830Z He called Cooper "a limner in little," and referred to him several times in his Diary. English Painters with a chapter on American painters 2012-03-27T02:00:26.437Z This is human nature: human nature as commerce and modern teaching and the cheap Press have made it; but Barbier and Legros will never pardon the limner who thus portrays them. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z And now I remember, I did hear as how one o' them paintin' fellers—limners, they call 'em, was a puttin' up at the 'Headless Lady,' and a paintin' 'er likeness. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume III 2011-07-16T02:00:13.547Z Visit it in his absence, and you may paint his portrait better than the limner who has placed his "breathing canvas" on the walls. Auriol or, The Elixir of Life 2011-06-24T02:00:23.867Z As limners they excelled, and a keen sense of humour is evinced in many of their paintings. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z Anterior to the invention of printing, there flourished a craft or trade who were denominated Stationers; they were scribes and limners, and dealers in manuscript copies, and in parchment and paper, and other literary wares. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z These three children offer one of the most perfect pictures of innocent and unmerited suffering which literature can offer, and the limner of them and of their sorrows is a fine writer. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z He was a ragged old fellow, and with his snowy, wool-covered head composed a study in black and white worthy of the brush of any of our best limners of character. From Pillar to Post Leaves from a Lecturer's Note-Book 2011-05-05T02:00:21.620Z The features are perfectly regular, and the illustrious Lothario sports a sweeping moustache, and has a dare-devilry expression which the ancient and skilful limner has reproduced with apparently scrupulous fidelity. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z Great indeed is the power, marvellous is the mystery, of the limner's art. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z How flushed up the faded memories of camp and battle scenes, and dismal prison life; verily a picture for the limner. "Evacuation Day", 1783 Its Many Stirring Events: with recollections of Capt. John Van Arsdale To turn now to another side of Stevenson—Stevenson the Artist, the artificer of phrases, the limner of pictures. The Vagabond in Literature But what painter's brush, what limner's art, can fix upon canvas that delicate, that, I may say, intangible charm which belongs to the fairer portion of our humanity? East Angels Mary Beale’s reference to his decease is in the following words: “Sunday, May 5, 1672—Mr Samuel Cooper, the most famous limner of the world for a face, dyed.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" Lest, however, there should be any mistake, the cunning limner had warily inscribed the names of Prince Hal and Falstaff on the bottom of their chairs. Old and New London Volume I It was not my hide that these uncanny limners operated upon. The Recipe for Diamonds “Would that I were a limner to paint you,” burst from the young fellow impulsively. Peggy Owen and Liberty And in the following May, the King appointed him his "limner and painter in Scotland, with all fees, profits, salaries, rights, privileges, and advantages thereto belonging." Raeburn The fair tourist thus draws his portrait—whether the captain will admire either the sketch or the limner, is another question. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 While I have been rusticating at La Socapa, my brother limner has been busily employed on work in which he takes especial delight. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba If nature could be made her own limner, if by some magic art the reflection could be fixed upon the mirror, could the picture be other than true? Leading Articles on Various Subjects “Whenever an erroneous representation is made of the nature of gods and heroes—like the drawing of a limner which has not the shadow of a likeness to the truth.” Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays "Are you, then, the new limner who makes pictures by aid of the box and glass?" The Panchronicon Soul, sublime 'mid human d�bris, Paints the limner's work, I ween, Art and Science, all unweary, Lighting up this mortal dream. Poems The brush was dipped in the limner’s heart and wrought passing well. Southern Literature From 1579-1895 A comprehensive review, with copious extracts and criticisms for the use of schools and the general reader About this time Mr. Carew met with one Mr. Philips, a celebrated limner in Porlock, who showed him a great many pictures of different likenesses, and asked him if he knew any of them. The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew King of the Beggars; containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary Man To paint such a vision The limner need call on the aid of the Poppy. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 20, 1893 The buildings stood where now we find Queen’s Court Passage, and near by, at Victoria Terrace, was the house set aside for the limners or artists who drew and painted for the works. The Tapestry Book Marjorie had a beautiful face, if the limner did not lie—and indeed he did not—and I could well believe that as lovely a soul as Lancelot lauded shone through those candid eyes. Marjorie In making up the group, we shall borrow freely from the limners, beginning with the graphic outline of one of his most devoted and well-appreciated personal friends, and his first biographer, Chief-Justice Marshall. Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. The limner's art is still almost a novelty here; and many persons of rank solicited permission to witness the operation. A New Voyage Round the World, in the years 1823, 24, 25, and 26, Vol. 2 No, truly," he answered, smiling, "for if there had been either limners or stuccoyers worth their salt in those days, the owner of such a headpiece would never have had to trail the poke. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) But for short space I gazed, with soul intent Upon thee; and the limner’s art divine, Meantime, poured all thy spirit into mine. Poems As King of Scotland, King George has a household official known as the limner, or painter. The Romance of Words (4th ed.) “The best and most cunning limner of this or any land.” The White Rose of Langley A Story of the Olden Time Having, therefore, engaged the limner—for what could I do?—our next deliberation was to shew the superiority of our taste in the attitudes. The Ontario High School Reader It may be observed here our middy had improved greatly in the matter of costume since his appointment to the rank of limner to Ben-Ahmed. The Middy and the Moors An Algerine Story Oh," I exclaimed, "Art thou not Oderigi, art not thou Agobbio's glory, glory of that art Which they of Paris call the limner's skill? The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8) In these Russian descriptive language made a great stride in advance, even after Púshkin and Gógol; and as a limner of landscape, he has no equal in Russian literature. A Survey of Russian Literature, with Selections No word-painting can convey the deep, intense enthusiasm, the reverential attention of that vast assembly, nor limner transfer to canvas their earnest, eager, awe-struck countenances. Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail Artists, limners, copyists, musicians, scholars, formed part of her retinue, and at once the German Court became the rival of those of England, Byzantium, Cordova, and Rome. Illuminated Manuscripts I exclaimed, 'Art thou not Oderigi? art not thou Agobbio's glory, glory of that art Which they of Paris call the limner's skill?' The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 If that was not an acknowledgment of the limner's fidelity, what could be? Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes She was like a picture painted by a very excellent limner. The Well of Saint Clare It was as grim a picture as any limner of the weird could wish to look upon. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady I shall see you in time, and will carry you to the limner. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 1 With His Letters and Journals She was not beautiful beyond compare, as the Southern young woman is so likely to be under the pencil of her loyal limners. The Quickening The poet was handsome enough to be one that ‘limners loved to paint, and ladies to look upon.’ The Disentanglers So the power of creating is almost lost, and limners must be content to copy pretty things. Art Or should some limner join, for show or sale, A maid of honour to a mermaid's tail? Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals Yes, mamma, both are painted on that serene brow; for no art of the limner could conceal their mournful traces, nor remove the veil of sorrow which an unhappy destiny threw over your beauty. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One The but half-sober limner being addressed by him for the first time, and for the first time looking at him directly, gave way to a slight hiccoughing start and strove to stand more steady. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality When masses of figures formed in regular order had to be shown, the vertical planes lapped over, so to speak, according to the caprice of the limner. Manual of Egyptian Archaeology and Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt Indeed, there seemed but a poor demand for the limner's art. The Hill of Dreams And that set Wulfhere laughing again, for the good monks who paint these things are seldom good limners, but make up for bad drawing by bright colour. A Thane of Wessex His brilliant eye, his lofty brow, and peculiarly sweet expression of mouth, had been caught by the limner, and transferred to his painting in all their original beauty. The Vale of Cedars They were well manned, and had, beside the officers customary in king's ships, a botanist and limner on board each vessel. An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Volume 1 With Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc. of The Native Inhabitants of That Country. to Which Are Added, Some Particulars of New Zealand; Compiled, By Permission, From The Mss. of Lieutenant-Governor King. We must leave poor Olivia to her fate, and turn to the family picture "drawn by a limner;" capital—"limner" well suiting the intended satire—some say a good-natured, sly cut at Sir Joshua. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 Whatever the line was, Protogenes, we hear, recognized in it the hand of the greatest limner of Greece. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator He is the celestial limner who shall preserve the authentic faces of every generation from now until the world is no more. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 Had a limner's hand Traced such a heavenly brow, and such a lip, I would have sworn the knave had dreamt it all In some fair vision of some fairer world. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 538, March 17, 1832 But to detail all the absurdities and indecencies of these revered artists, whether limners, or carvers in wood, were endless. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 341, November 15, 1828 The luckless limner, thus suddenly brought out from his dreams, sat up with a piercing yell, while Hordle John bounded back into the circle almost as rapidly as he had left it. The White Company It was a limner he longed to be, far away from the stir and stress, not a page attending a great lady to the Court functions. Gathering of Brother Hilarius All other limners made him merely grotesque, but Milton made him awful. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 2 A background of lush scenery enhanced the forceful technique of the limner. The Haunted Bookshop But hereafter will be other plays, of wild men and their feasting in the woods in the Golden Age of the world; and that is done by the scribes and the limners. The Well at the World's End: a tale The unfortunate limner had been sitting up rubbing himself ruefully and staring about with a vacant gaze, which showed that he knew neither where he was nor what had occurred to him. The White Company Then between the stars came the Holy City with roof and pinnacle aflame, and walls aglow with such colours as no earthly limner dreams of, and much gold. Gathering of Brother Hilarius And now limners were sent out into all lands and realms to take the likenesses of the fairest Princesses, and the Prince was to chose between them. Popular Tales from the Norse I shall see you in time, and will carry you to the 'limner'. The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1 You are to be one of the Jury, and we must get some good limner to take down the evidence. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey He often smiled, Yet not so often, that a limner might Describe his mien as jovial. Count Alarcos; a Tragedy October and November came and sped, and Hilarius’ longing to be a limner waxed with the waning year. Gathering of Brother Hilarius The Boston Gallery is the proud possessor of the rough and unfinished but "speaking" likeness of George Washington by his predestined limner Gilbert Stuart, and also a companion presentment of Washington's wife. Roving East and Roving West Macaulay is a masterly limner of the external side of life, but he is scarcely conscious of the interior world in which the finer spirits live and work out their destinies. A History of English Literature Pity that for the Philippines no word limner of note exists. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes The heroine, as imaged in his mind, is arrayed in a loveliness which limner never compassed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 Thou shalt be a limner, my son, the Lord hath revealed it to me. Gathering of Brother Hilarius This black hood was dignified in allegorical literature as "the venerable hood," and was ever chosen by limners to cover the head of any woman of age or dignity who was to be depicted. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) As for our portrait limners, their name is Legion, and that comprehensive name must go for all. Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 05, April 30, 1870 With that face "which limners might have loved to paint, and ladies to look upon," he still conquers hearts from his dark corner above the private staircase in Sir Walter's deserted study. Old Mortality, Volume 1. Still had the youth adored his lovely bride In the dull limner's portraiture alone. Don Carlos Thou art a limner at heart - Brother Bernard tells of thy wondrous skill with the brush - and to be limner thou must learn to hunger and to love as the maid said. Gathering of Brother Hilarius I do wish I knew whether these were painted by Tom Child--a painter-stainer and limner referred to by Judge Samuel Sewall in his Diary, who was living in Boston at that time. Two Centuries of Costume in America, Volume 1 (1620-1820) Cousin, this limner quickly will be seen, Painting the Princess Royal, and the Queen: Pray, don't you think as I do, COZ? The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe The 'limner,' or 'illuminer,' for so we find the word in Fuller, throws us back on a time when the illumination of manuscripts was a leading occupation of the painter. On the Study of Words Sitting at a table, and looking at a portrait, she informs us—First, that portrait-painters may make a portrait from memory, "The limner's art may trace the absent feature." Biographia Literaria But first I would learn to be a real limner; I have some small skill with the brush,” he added simply. Gathering of Brother Hilarius My wife and daughters happening to return a visit to neighbour Flamborough's, found that family had lately got their pictures drawn by a limner, who travelled the country, and took likenesses for fifteen shillings a-head. English Literature for Boys and Girls She made for herself a mental portrait of him more gracious in its flattery than ever was canvas coming from the hand of a Court limner. He Knew He Was Right I should expect any limner would laugh in my face if I offered it to him to be copied. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 A skilful limner, at least in this instance, was the imagination of Wilkinson. The Two Wives Or, Lost and Won Then one bade me go to Florence an I would be a limner; therefore I hasted thither, and gave my last coin for bread as I entered the city.” Gathering of Brother Hilarius I went forth, by appointment, to meet with Mr. Grant, who promised to bring me acquainted with Cooper, the great limner in little. The Diary of Samuel Pepys Having, therefore, engaged the limner, for what could I do? our next deliberation was to shew the superiority of our taste in the attitudes. The Vicar of Wakefield Lest, however, there should be any mistake, the cunning limner had warily inscribed the names of Prince Hal and Falstaff on the bottoms of their chairs. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon “He that drew her picture was a good limner,” said Mr. Honest, “and he that so wrote of her said true”. Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) "I have within my house, in wages," he writes to Lord Burleigh, in 1573, "drawers and cutters, painters, limners, writers and bookbinders." Old English Libraries Here and there were painted rosy and aerial clouds, from which smiled, by the limner's art, faces of divinest beauty, and on which reposed the shapes of which Phidias and Apelles dreamed. Last Days of Pompeii These transcribers and limners worked principally upon parchment and vellum, for the use of paper was by no means extensive until the invention of the art of printing. Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. See you not, in the wan face and livid limbs, how faithfully the limner hath painted the hues and loathsomeness of death? Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes It is well," said he; "thou art a good limner; and fever is a great spur to the imagination. The Cloister and the Hearth The public gazes astonished: the hasty limners sketch her features, Charlotte not disapproving; the men of law proceed with their formalities. The French Revolution The limner's bill is made up of a number of items, "for whole vignettes, and half-vignettes, and capital letters, and flourishing and plain writing." Forty Centuries of Ink or, a chronological narrative concerning ink and its backgrounds, introducing incidental observations and deductions, parallels of time and color phenomena, bibliography, chemistry, poetical effusions, citations, anecdotes and curiosa together with some evidence respecting the evanescent character of most inks of to-day and an epitome of chemico-legal ink. |
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