| 单词 | picturesqueness |
| 例句 | The park’s roads are comparatively few and they are kept intentionally narrow, partly to slow traffic, partly to preserve an air of picturesqueness, and partly because of topographical constraints. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z But the picturesqueness and the flowing, music-video rhythms of the editing give the film a slick, evasive feel, as if it were too cautious or too cool to confront the worst of what it’s about. Review: In ‘Beautiful Boy,’ a Writer Confronts His Son’s Meth Addiction 2018-10-11T04:00:00Z “Così” was long regarded as a wanly charming diversion, and even today productions like the Metropolitan Opera’s emphasize its picturesqueness over its painfulness. Christopher Alden?s ?Cos? Fan Tutte? at New York City Opera 2011-09-18T01:15:08Z The country around was likewise primitive, but haunting in its picturesqueness, with second-growth timber and rock-ribbed fields. The celebrity war hero of 1919: The search for Sergeant York and his famous WWI diary 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z “But the picturesqueness and the flowing, music-video rhythms of the editing give the film a slick, evasive feel, as if it were too cautious or too cool to confront the worst of what it’s about.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Beautiful Boy’ and ‘Ron Funches: Giggle Fit’ 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z It is the essence of picturesqueness—that is, of course, if you ignore the heroin addicts strewn all over the Spitzplatz behind the Hauptbahnhof. Timothy Leary’s liberation, and the CIA’s experiments! LSD’s amazing, psychedelic history 2013-12-14T21:00:00Z It is to the credit of this latest version that it visually captures on its own terms the microcosmic picturesqueness of that 1954 movie. Review: ‘Rear Window,’ the Perils of Voyeurism, With Kevin Bacon 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z It ascends to the crest of picturesqueness and of drama, and just occasionally sinks into the trough of brutality. How to watch every Best Picture winner from 1930 through 1939 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z The honey-colored wood panels lining the ceiling stretch all the way to the back of the restaurant, beckoning those who enter further into the picturesqueness of it all. Hot Seattle pop-ups: Loaded tostadas, sourdough crust pizza and Japanese-style fried chicken 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z It quoted at length from an October 1893 story in a Liverpool newspaper that praised L.A.’s “picturesqueness and its magnificent climate.” Go ahead and rub L.A.'s winter sunshine in people's faces. We've been doing it forever 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z When the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted planned Prospect Park, in the eighteen-sixties, he wrote that he prized trees “which possessed either dignity or picturesqueness.” A Day in the Life of a Tree 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z This is, in a few words, the story of a campaign which has been unequalled within the last twenty years in picturesqueness, heroism, and dramatic surprises. The Rulers of the Mediterranean 2012-04-25T02:00:58.380Z This plantation and church have terribly interfered with the picturesqueness and antique look of Tara. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z But to the crew of the "Golden Hind" the picturesqueness of the scene was in a measure unappreciated. The Airship "Golden Hind" 2012-04-21T02:00:26.983Z But a nearer approach destroys all the picturesqueness. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z To the south of Ross are those of Wilton and Goodrich, commanding the Wye on the right bank, the latter a ruin of peculiar magnificence, and both gaining picturesqueness from their beautiful situations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 3 "Helmont, Jean" to "Hernosand" 2012-04-14T02:00:23.707Z "Certainly reproduce to a degree attained by few preachers the vivid picturesqueness of the Gospel." A Gamble with Life 2012-04-11T02:00:33.587Z Want of islands is the great drawback to the picturesqueness of most of the Scotch lakes and those of the north of England. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z The country around is hilly, but hardly beautiful; the limestone rock gives a bare appearance to the hills, which is not redeemed by boldness of form or picturesqueness of outline. The Expositor's Bible: The First Book of Samuel 2012-04-08T02:00:20.427Z The garden of Lower House was, of course, like all the land in Edge Valley, inclined at an angle of considerably more than forty-five degrees, which fact added greatly to its picturesqueness. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z The 'faces' being worked from part of the mountain, and as the material is brought under treatment, of course, the picturesqueness of the scene has to suffer. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z Looking down, you may well believe that the city thus exquisitely placed, thus deliciously shaded and surrounded, is itself a wonder of picturesqueness and symmetry. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z Its having been used as a burying place within recent times has, as the same thing has done at Clonmacnois, sadly interfered with its picturesqueness. Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland 2012-04-23T02:00:32.180Z Of course if a whole city consisted of these wide, regular streets, it would be monotonous, but here was already enough of narrow-lane picturesqueness to satisfy the artist. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z Where, then, do you find picturesqueness if not here? The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z But in the Tale of Melibœus his inimitable faculty of story-telling comes to his aid, and determines his sentences to a little more variety and picturesqueness, though the sententious still predominates. The English Novel And the Principle of its Development 2012-03-21T02:00:37.123Z The creative fancy is that which gives beauty, picturesqueness, and charm to all the work of poet or novelist. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z It cannot be that travellers lied when they wrote of the amazing picturesqueness of the Neapolitans, that they painted brown purple, and put on their spectacles of rose as they approached the land! Naples Past and Present 2012-03-13T02:00:23.473Z Unexpected scenes like this, unmentioned in the guide books, give to this city its allurement, enhanced doubly because the actors are so unconscious of their picturesqueness. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z But its picturesqueness is not the sole recommendation of daily railway travel. The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces 2012-03-12T03:00:26.180Z For picturesqueness, as for accuracy, both men are on a level. William Hickling Prescott 2012-03-11T03:00:12.297Z That keenness and originality which astonishes us in master thinkers is due to the magic vigor and picturesqueness of their images. Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School 2012-03-17T02:01:04.053Z "A Cornish tale of remarkable picturesqueness, altogether natural and touching, full of quaint pictures of a marvellously decorative people." A Desperate Voyage 2012-03-11T03:00:11.030Z Schopenhauer has put the point with his usual picturesqueness. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z Among all the languages which contribute to the variety and picturesqueness of English plant names, Dr. Prior deems Maple the only one surviving from the Celtic language. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z From this period date the substantial homes of the tradesmen of Tudor times which still survive in not inconsiderable numbers to give so much picturesqueness to the streets of the town. The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury 2012-03-05T03:00:14.443Z The market of Sal�, though typical of all Moroccan markets, has an animation and picturesqueness of its own. In Morocco 2012-03-05T03:00:11.463Z We had intended going to Peterhead and the smaller fishing towns by the way; but our energy was less inexhaustible than the picturesqueness of the east coast. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z A certain heaviness of style, too, and laborious picturesqueness of treatment make it more imposing than attractive to the general reader. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 8 "Hudson River" to "Hurstmonceaux" 2012-02-24T03:00:27.173Z These years spent in France and Switzerland add to the moral picturesqueness of his course as a whole. Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z A single old windmill on the summit of a hill behind the town adds to its picturesqueness, and somewhat relieves the too-familiar outlines of roof and steeple. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z They are well enough as ruins, and certainly, as they are scattered about Ireland and England, they add much to the picturesqueness of the landscapes, and will always possess a romantic interest. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z Kirmanshah, approached from the south-west, added no elements of picturesqueness to the effect. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:15.857Z Both men and women are very handsome, and the striking Kurdish costume gives a great brilliancy and picturesqueness to this remarkable city. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Hence a certain unscrupulousness towards Nature in the French garden; hence the daring picturesqueness, its legerdemain. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z The name of Mount Desert, it is true, is singularly appropriate; but then it was given by a Frenchman with an eye for truth in picturesqueness. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z After such an experience one's enthusiasm is dampened a little, and he is willing to exchange somewhat of Oriental picturesqueness for Western cleanliness and comfort. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z The place had a certain picturesqueness, but a sadness too. Second String 2012-02-11T03:03:54.390Z It was not to see the grandeur and picturesqueness of Bitlis that I came here so late in the season, but to visit the American missionaries, especially two ladies. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z In Italy, too, they throw in porcupines and ferrets for picturesqueness. Garden-Craft Old and New 2012-02-12T03:00:11.083Z It is a picturesque old place, with that somewhat pathetic picturesqueness of an ancient seaport town which the sea has deserted. Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely 2012-02-03T03:00:22.657Z Literature, whether in Scott or Keats, was carrying its search for story and ideals, for picturesqueness and beauty, into past ages and remote climes. Tragedy 2012-01-31T03:00:19.343Z The whole assemblage was surrounded by a polyglot crowd of Islanders and Indians in all the picturesqueness of Polynesian and Oriental garb. Down Under With the Prince 2012-01-29T03:00:07.103Z My friends tell me that I shall find the Syrians of the mountains a different people, and a mountaineer is readily recognised in the streets by the beauty and picturesqueness of his dress. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Even now the palm-forests which run without interruption along the lower course of both rivers produce dates in abundance, and with their slender forms and lofty tops give a picturesqueness to the otherwise uniform landscape. The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) 2012-01-28T03:00:28.213Z General Horry was a most zealous and devoted friend; as a biographer his accuracy is questionable, his picturesqueness never. Julia Ward Howe 1819-1910 2012-01-24T03:00:23.377Z The Looes lack the picturesqueness of Fowey but on the other hand you can get about much more easily and there is bathing on the front. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z The contrast between these grave, dignified, saintly Covenanting leaders, and the brilliant Cavalier, Sir Thomas Urquhart, is one which, by its picturesqueness, strongly impresses the imagination. Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z The valley of the Clyde is closely confined by hills, and the city extends far over these, the irregularity of its site making for picturesqueness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 2012-01-11T03:00:20.463Z "I suppose you are much pleased with the picturesqueness of Roman life, and—ah—your apartment?" he went on. The Front Yard 2012-01-09T03:00:23.183Z As has already been said, it is at first the general effect, the picturesqueness, and the novelty, which strike one as so charming. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z The glimpses of the crowded harbour and the variety and picturesqueness of the boats and ships that find their way in are a never-failing source of interest and pleasure. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z "Its general picturesqueness is effective, while the criticism is eminently liberal and sound." Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight 2012-01-19T03:00:21.953Z He entered a Chinese restaurant which made no pretence at picturesqueness for the attraction of sightseers. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Into the ugliest tenement street Christmas brings something of picturesqueness as of cheer. Out of Mulberry Street Stories of Tenement life in New York City 2011-12-28T03:00:42.950Z Yet the disproportions of his attire did but enhance the picturesqueness of a personality that would be striking even in a bath, though it was not likely to be seen there. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z In the midst of the moor Brown Willy and Rough Tor rise with considerable picturesqueness, and their surfaces are strewn with the old beehive huts of a people whose history is lost. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z He looked well in his wide, gray hat and his riding dress, for the picturesqueness of the fringed deerskin jacket, which was then the vogue at Allenwood, did not detract from his air of dignity. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z The matter was conducted with a studied picturesqueness of detail which was carefully arranged by Richelieu to gratify the vanity of the woman he wished to please. Henrietta Maria 2011-12-15T03:00:14.290Z Pure white black-tipped horns, erect almost, and a bit of a mane which added to his picturesqueness and wild beauty. From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New 2011-12-13T03:00:26.557Z The point on which the camp was pitched could certainly boast no charm of picturesqueness. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z Mr. Shepperson in his book-illustrations generally represents affairs with picturesqueness, and with a nervous energy that takes the least mechanical way of expressing forms and substances. English Book-Illustration of To-day Appreciations of the Work of Living English Illustrators With Lists of Their Books 2011-11-30T03:00:10.703Z In one way or another I saw a good deal of Walt Whitman, but most frequently by the chance which increased the picturesqueness of the meeting. Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z We need not regret in melancholy sentimentality the picturesqueness of bygone days, for we ourselves live, not in a material and commonplace generation, but in the very midst of miracles and romance. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z We come, too, to the national sport of rabbit-hunting, with its picturesqueness and excitement. Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona 2011-11-21T03:00:13.817Z The shaggy, turbaned horsemen, whom at first she had found fascinating in their picturesqueness, began to appear in her eyes more and more the predatory, merciless beings they really were. The Heath Hover Mystery 2011-12-01T03:00:22.357Z The picturesqueness and ease of French life make America look stupid and forlorn, and she has no wish to go home, but only to have her dear ones share in her happiness. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z Miss Garden said, If I remember correctly, that the very words "whiskey and soda" were inartistic and spoiled the poetry and picturesqueness of the act. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z The costume of the Sevillian caballero—and remember that every man in Spain is a cavalier—has suffered, no doubt, in picturesqueness since the time of Don Quixote. The Story of Seville 2011-11-15T03:00:17.143Z Though the Romance exhibits all the anachronisms and exaggerations of popular legend, it does nevertheless portray the unchanging features of Bedouin life with admirable fidelity and picturesqueness. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z The Adi Granth contains passages of great picturesqueness and beauty. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" 2011-11-13T03:00:13.177Z These towers add much to the picturesqueness of their respective quarters. Southern Spain 2011-11-11T03:00:28.423Z He played a great part in costuming, but, curiously enough, he could never play parts of what I call elemental picturesqueness. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z There is a very great store of gossip and anecdote in existence which might be utilised to illustrate the picturesqueness of old-time life in Cumberland and Westmorland. Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland 2011-11-01T02:00:23.027Z A fire burning in the centre of the hut, and filling the place with smoke, added, by its suggestive dimness, to the picturesqueness of the scene. Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. 2011-10-30T02:00:10.270Z A series of nine fin de si�cle stories of great power and picturesqueness.... A Humble Enterprise 2011-10-29T02:00:12.483Z The picturesqueness of the photograph had been wholly washed away. Thirty Years in Australia 2011-10-25T02:00:27.397Z He has an immense affinity for those old books, for they are full of music and picturesqueness, teeming with vigorous life, bursting with the strange and wonderful. The World's Best Books : A Key to the Treasures of Literature 2011-10-20T02:00:20.857Z The girl, though rough, had a vitality and picturesqueness attractive to the polished New Englander. The Angel of the Gila: A Tale of Arizona 2011-10-16T02:00:17.623Z The head of this oak is usually narrow and rounded; the branches, short and stout, are inclined to go their own way, giving the tree more of picturesqueness than of symmetry, as age advances. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z THE traveller in Italy must often have noticed the difference in the shape of the battlements that nowadays add so much to the picturesqueness of old towers and half-ruined fortress walls. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z She is fond of history and politics; not of this country, because she claims that it is vulgar and lacks picturesqueness. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z It was mysterious no longer, but a picturesqueness lingered still, while there was much that neither of them were able to understand. Chance in Chains A Story of Monte Carlo 2011-10-03T02:00:32.613Z But her picturesqueness all streams into one channel—into hatred for Ingham. "Persons Unknown" 2011-09-28T02:00:23.683Z Seen from the sea it has a certain amount of picturesqueness. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z As told by the women at the hunting-camp, these edifying stories brought over from old Europe gain rather than lose in picturesqueness of detail. The Life and Times of Kateri Tekakwitha The Lily of the Mohawks 2011-09-16T02:00:21.817Z To begin with, the structure itself is charming; time has bestowed upon it picturesqueness, and art has made it beautiful with the simple but effective arrangement of vines and flowers. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z Although Tennyson, in a general way, is an essentially picturesque poet, his picturesqueness is of an infinitely milder type than that of Victor Hugo; the one ends where the other begins. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z To a great extent land-fighting, like naval encounters, has lost its picturesqueness, and has become little more than a disgusting slaughter. In the Russian Ranks A Soldier's Account of the Fighting in Poland 2011-09-11T02:00:08.747Z It had not the antiquity of the North End, nor the picturesqueness of the West End. Brenda's Bargain A Story for Girls 2011-09-09T02:01:09.477Z But there seems no reason against keeping the full force of the expression, which adds picturesqueness and point to the precept. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z If he charms by the lucidity and picturesqueness of his style, none the less does he achieve a high level of historical accuracy, and manifest the control of the true spirit of historical criticism. Count Frontenac Makers of Canada, Volume 3 2011-09-09T02:01:02.147Z If one surrenders one's sense to their perfect picturesqueness, it is the most charming poetry in the world. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z At this moment a little incident interrupted the music, but added considerable picturesqueness to the evening. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z By this absence of the highwaymen, our story of the road has lost much of its picturesqueness and color. Stage-coach and Tavern Days 2011-08-31T02:01:27.587Z Only in the distance one red-roofed farmhouse could be seen, adding to the picturesqueness of the landscape. Winona of the Camp Fire 2011-08-28T02:00:35.510Z The town itself is not attractive; one long, narrow lane-like street, lined on each side by habitations neither imposing nor of a tumble-down picturesqueness, borders the Loire. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z On the imaginative side, his style is almost complete, and seems capable of doing everything that picturesqueness demands. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z He, partly deliberately, partly instinctively, used in his speech ordinary, average, common expressions, without having recourse either to simile or picturesqueness. Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov 2011-08-21T02:00:35.470Z Round this on every side trees and shrubs throve luxuriantly, not only protecting it from the violence of the sea-breeze, but lending to it a picturesqueness that was like a glimpse of fairyland. In Strange Company A Story of Chili and the Southern Seas 2011-08-16T02:00:46.397Z Norman and Early English date, acquiring additional picturesqueness from the warm colour of the red sandstone of which they are built. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z Its ruddy colour adds much to the picturesqueness of the building. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See 2011-08-14T02:00:26.307Z She writes graphically, and describes some of the terrible scenes in the French Revolution with great picturesqueness. Harriet Martineau 2011-08-05T02:00:51.493Z But when one compares its harbor to that of Naples, or Sydney in Australia, for picturesqueness of scenery, as is often done, it only provokes invidious remarks. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z Around this, on our side and to the left, was the bush, the peculiar and splendid trees, and parasitical plants composing it, lending a powerful aid to the general picturesqueness of the scene. Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs 2011-08-04T02:00:26.337Z Mountains, the sea, the piled up majestic picturesqueness of Nature did not attract him. Constable 2011-08-02T02:00:26.593Z Our lounging-place and the children's wooden playground have gone, and all the picturesqueness and woodsiness have disappeared as completely as when splitting has made only firewood of the pile. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z The house was rambling and shabby, and had been patched and pieced, with an utter disregard of architectural proportion that resulted in a curious and unexpected picturesqueness. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z And yet these crowded thoroughfares would lose half of their picturesqueness were these elements to be banished from them. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z As we come to the Calf of Man the picturesqueness of the scene is increased tenfold as the rocks in their wildness guard their native shores. Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z It was to the simple conditions of his semi-medieval theater that Shakspere adjusted himself, rude as those conditions may now appear to us who are accustomed to the sumptuous picturesqueness of our own luxuriant playhouses. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z The Yankees who possess happy memories of the great open fires of old time are growing few, but Whittier has embalmed for all time, in "Snow-Bound," their comfort and cheer and picturesqueness. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z The mystery and the picturesqueness of it make it notable. The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge and Other Stories 2011-07-19T02:00:22.090Z What never to be forgotten times they were for youthful artists, when we shared our enthusiasms for all we saw in these pleasantly picturesque villages—a picturesqueness which has certainly gone by now. My Recollections 2011-07-16T02:00:14.973Z Not, of course, that there is not much wit and much wisdom, much picturesqueness and not a little pathos in our rhymes. National Rhymes of the Nursery 2011-07-12T02:00:29.700Z "Yes," said Mrs. Amory with a sigh; "it is sad, but true: there is neither poetry, nor picturesqueness, nor music among the English peasantry." A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z It is evident that where these relations are varied and numerous, the language gains greatly in picturesqueness and force, and thus reacts with a more stimulating effect on the mind. The Philosophic Grammar of American Languages, as Set Forth by Wilhelm von Humboldt With the Translation of an Unpublished Memoir by Him on the American Verb 2011-07-08T02:00:18.037Z His pose, as he leaned on the rock, had a muscular picturesqueness. The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge and Other Stories 2011-07-19T02:00:22.090Z But, for all its external picturesqueness, an exploration of the interior of this abode would reveal a very poverty-stricken state of things. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z For this was before the days of the railway, and Zermatt, still uncockneyfied, retained most of its pristine picturesqueness in spite of the monster hotels dominating its quaint brown chalets. Fordham's Feud 2011-07-05T02:00:31.267Z Several banners, borne aloft at intervals, added a final stroke of picturesqueness to the moving pageant. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z The incident borrows a certain picturesqueness from lapse of time, but, on the whole, it is not to be regretted that the days of barbecued landladies are past. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z The moon was shining brightly, and here and there an officer in uniform, or some other "caballero" in close attendance upon a Señorita wearing the very becoming "mantilla," added to the picturesqueness of the scene. Blanco y Colorado Old Days among the Gauchos of Uruguay 2011-06-28T02:00:11.447Z His wonderful facility and bold picturesqueness were exactly suited to the requirements of an illustrated newspaper. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z The former had lost much of their picturesqueness owing to being dressed mainly in shoddy European clothing, but each carried at least one long, strong stick, and stalked along with a look of dignified disdain. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z There seemed no end to the palmetto huts, not only filling a large open space but straggling into the surrounding foliage—the whole not devoid of a certain picturesqueness, but utterly, unqualifiedly, savage. The Red Derelict 2011-07-05T02:00:30.143Z He naturally takes delight in the picturesqueness of its expressions, just as a draughtsman with skill and a good pencil will trace delicate contours. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z It has now lost its old picturesqueness, because the great heavy thatch which formerly served for roof has been removed and replaced by slates. The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies 2011-05-27T02:00:19.437Z She looked about her, and acknowledged that the street was a pleasant, sunny one, and that its commonplace architecture gained in picturesqueness by its steep ascent. Boston Neighbours In Town and Out 2011-05-24T02:00:13.567Z In Spanish Art, on the other hand, the picturesqueness alone of low life seems to have sought expression. The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II 2011-05-22T02:00:17.943Z Now I have other tests, and can value an old acquaintance of this kind for its picturesqueness, though its apples be bitter as wormwood. A Rambler's lease 2011-05-22T02:00:11.507Z Apparently people have lost all capacity to treat the Holy Scriptures otherwise than from the point of view of ethnography, history, or picturesqueness. An Autobiography 2011-05-21T02:00:10.850Z This was a plain edifice, with no pretensions to beauty, deriving all its picturesqueness from the ivy with which it was overgrown. Trevethlan: (Vol 2 of 3) A Cornish Story. 2011-05-16T02:00:19.270Z One of the most remarkable qualities of Miss Woolson's work was its intense picturesqueness. From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z It has a population of about half a million, and the Rhone runs through it, adding much to its picturesqueness, as its banks are lined with stately houses and offices and shops. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z The retreat to which Ethel had been conveyed was thus free from alarms, and lacked nothing in picturesqueness and beauty. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z It is the “water supply” of the large population living in those many-storeyed houses which give the immediate neighbourhood its picturesqueness. Notes on Old Edinburgh 2011-05-03T02:00:17.180Z Nor are the Mexicans, many of whom are employed as laborers, up to specifications as to picturesqueness. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z The tawny-skinned and turbaned attendant—more like what might have been seen at an Oriental tiger hunt—nevertheless added to the picturesqueness of the tableau. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z Not that the resemblance went beyond mere personal appearance; that picturesqueness we attach, to the Italian bandit. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z Tall iron stacks, straggling sheds, and sawdust dumps took on a certain harsh picturesqueness in the fading light; and the keen smell of freshly cut cedar came up the faint breeze. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z Rounding one of the bowlder-formed crags that gave picturesqueness to the baby mountain, he pulled up short. Lonesome Town 2011-04-12T02:00:24.580Z He believed that his text gained picturesqueness, and even exactitude of impression, by those curious archaisms. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z He dwarfed the refinements of it with a magnetic claim for his own rugged picturesqueness. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z There was in resulting evil practices a touch of picturesqueness. When the Ku Klux Rode 2011-04-06T02:00:03.767Z What he asks of Europe is picturesqueness; old castles, and Louis XIV., and Austrian rules of etiquette and an unreformed House of Lords. The United States and the War 2011-04-01T02:00:33.633Z This addition to his picturesqueness was contributed by Harry, who, engaged in plucking a goose at the opposite side of the fire, sent all the down and feathers in that direction. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z The picturesqueness and the dignity of the Indians are lacking. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z From the point of view of scenery �tretat holds a high position, its bold chalk cliffs adding enormously to the picturesqueness of the coast. France 2011-03-27T02:00:11.847Z As a poet, he is characterized by the eloquence and picturesqueness of his style and the symbolical language he employed. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" 2011-03-20T02:00:30.697Z But though the cold was most intense, for the season really was too early for such a journey, our spirits were revived by the extreme picturesqueness of the old towns we passed through. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z The gross realism of the popular poetry, its lack of culture and its carelessness of form, offended his educated taste, and its picturesqueness and ingenuity made no appeal to him. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z We were struck at once by its picturesqueness, its foreign air. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z The town has a busy port and all the picturesqueness contributed by the fishing-boats that go to the cod or herring fisheries. France 2011-03-27T02:00:11.847Z There would be boldness in such a step, a certain picturesqueness as well, and a dramatic ending to the play in which he had enacted the role of dupe. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z Here, from the broad deserted terrace in front of the palace, we looked over the mountains, with mists drifting across them in the wind; all was the essence of picturesqueness, raggedness, ignorance, and filth. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z The question, it must be remembered, is not one of art, so much as of picturesqueness and effect. The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 2011-02-23T03:00:33.760Z It was "Buff Bill's Circus," and the picturesqueness of its lithographs had made us most anxious to see it. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z Langada Pass Nothing can exceed the picturesqueness and beauty of this pass, and nothing was stranger than the contrast between its two steeps. Rambles and Studies in Greece 2011-02-18T03:00:16.480Z In short, he "cares little," it has been said, "for the natural picturesqueness in itself: the moral picturesqueness touches him more nearly." A Day with the Poet Burns 2011-02-17T03:00:17.640Z As the house occupies the angle of a little place, the front is double, and carved and interlaced, has a high picturesqueness. Hospital Sketches 2011-02-16T03:00:37.920Z Seen across a dinner-table it was clear that his portraits had not in the least exaggerated his natural picturesqueness. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z It has no rapid rivers flowing through it, as had the capital of Tyrol; no picturesqueness of hills to make it lovely, as had Edinburgh; no glory of buildings, such as belongs to Florence. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z No, because you look at picturesqueness, while I look at statistics. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z Many medieval buildings add to the picturesqueness of the country, forts and churches perched on rocky heights or half screened in the woods. Serbia: A Sketch 2011-02-11T03:00:25.893Z There is no great squalor, but there is a picturesqueness and charm which is wholly dispelled in the newer quarters, of which the guide-books speak. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z The usually monotonous water-view presented by the bay and lake, and even the common-place straight line of the Island, seen through the frame-work of three lofty vaulted passages, acquired for the moment a genuine picturesqueness. Toronto of Old 2011-02-10T03:00:45.907Z Despite its moral character, there is a grand picturesqueness about La Puebla de los Angeles—both in its present aspect and its past history. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z What added much to the weird picturesqueness of the outlook, as Helen gazed upon it, was the glitter of icicles from many of the roofs, as the dazzling sunlight fell upon them. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z It was cheap and it was picturesque, and both cheapness and picturesqueness appealed to Lady Wytham. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z Aside from the charm of its general picturesqueness of situation and grouping, Notre Dame de Bayonne will appeal mostly by its interior arrangements and embellishments. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z It is unnecessary to set down the exact words, but the fluency and originality and picturesqueness of the retired mariner's speech made Silas close his scandalised ears. The Solitary Farm 2011-02-04T03:00:21.943Z One does not need even the words of Dumas to recall its picturesqueness and importance—to-day as in ages past. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z Now and then a wider vista opened, and a bit of the dashing river, rendered free here and there by a more rapid current, added picturesqueness to the view. In the Van; or, The Builders 2011-02-09T03:00:42.387Z Elbe cannot rival the Rhine in the picturesqueness of the scenery it travels through, nor in the glamour which its romantic and legendary associations exercise over the imagination. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" 2011-01-29T03:00:23.777Z In spite of this there is, in the general ensemble, an imposing picturesqueness to which distance lends the proverbial degree of enchantment. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z Turning eastward from Valence, we headed directly for the mountains and entered a land with all the wealth of increase we had found in Provence, and with even more of picturesqueness. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z There is in the reminiscence of history and the present aspect of the Seine, throughout its length, the material for the constructing a volume of bulk which should not lack either variety, picturesqueness, or interest. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z She hurried away, intent upon spreading her news before the "lights-out" bell should ring, and with each telling the tale grew in detail and picturesqueness. Concerning Belinda 2011-01-21T03:00:12.087Z The characters are sketched with real life and picturesqueness. Khaled, A Tale of Arabia 2011-01-16T03:00:23.317Z Wade was not in a frame of mind to see any picturesqueness in that frowsy crowd. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z A mere verbal description is inadequate to give the faintest idea of their extreme picturesqueness. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II 2011-01-03T03:01:05.750Z Its narrow crooked lanes, however, with its bazaars, mosques, minarets and veiled women, give to its picturesqueness a decidedly Turkish air. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z But few have even approached it in courage, picturesqueness or mastery of portraiture. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" 2010-12-20T17:12:05.780Z He is as bold and good a horseman as ever; but it is only in out-of-the-way places that he retains all his old-time wild and individual picturesqueness. A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open It is a remarkable combination of symmetry and picturesqueness, and as a one-storey classic building is far superior to Soane’s Bank of England, with which a comparison is naturally suggested. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" As we proceeded southward the picturesqueness of the scenery increased, now winding through valleys or creeping over mountain passes. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands If we would find picturesqueness and beauty anywhere, we must bring with us a reasonable degree of appreciation. The Story of Malta It had a piquancy and a picturesqueness that, thank God, are to be restored! The Valiants of Virginia More practical considerations in regard to the environment than picturesqueness confront the house owner, however, and one of the most important is that of water supply and drainage. Remodeled Farmhouses The plan of Renaissance buildings was uniform and symmetrical, and the picturesqueness of the Gothic times was abandoned. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance This is called the geographical order, and has some advantages; but in adhering to such an arbitrary rule of adjustment, picturesqueness of effect must often be sacrificed. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands She would not look over the wild mountain scenery; its picturesqueness had departed. The Nightrider's Feud Under these circumstances, it is not to be wondered at that its old walls should offer many features of interest as well as picturesqueness. An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. A touch of picturesqueness has been secured through the introduction of a window-box over the porch, bright all through the season with blossoming flowers. Remodeled Farmhouses The view of Greenwich hospital from the river may fairly be said to be unique for beauty and picturesqueness. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance Fountains, rocky basins, and artificial waterfalls add picturesqueness to the place. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands Everything went along with a smoothness that suited the civilized landscape, the conventional picturesqueness and the tar-smeared roads. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Every page of the book glows with freshness, picturesqueness and vivacity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" In the planting around the house, great care has been taken to secure shade and picturesqueness, so that in its new life the remodeled farmhouse is surrounded by charming effects. Remodeled Farmhouses These qualities tend to breadth rather than picturesqueness of effect, and to similarity rather than contrast. Architecture Gothic and Renaissance The picturesqueness of the scene at the table appealed to the play-actor in him. The Firebrand The Houses of Parliament, in the latest phase of the style, considered his masterpiece, is specially successful in its general plan and in the picturesqueness of its exterior. Architecture His French style, based partly on his Latin reading, has, together with its undeniable vigour and picturesqueness, the characteristic redundance and rhetorical quality of the Burgundian school. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" This was fitted with small lights of glass and affords space for the grouping of many plants and incidentally adds a touch of distinct picturesqueness. Remodeled Farmhouses But it was eminently true of the picturesqueness of Longfellow in his later years, with that look of immovable serenity and of a benignity which had learned to condone all human sins. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Graces and picturesqueness it may have of a kind, but it lacks the rough virility, the sturdy grit, which is the most attractive quality of the best Vagabond. The Vagabond in Literature What a pity you are not able to devote yourself to writing and painting in a place like Algiers—full of romance and picturesqueness. Lafcadio Hearn The riders who bestrode these steeds were even more fantastically arrayed, and in the uniforms which they wore the same sacrifice of taste to picturesqueness was to be observed. K. K. K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic Treating the More Important Events of the Ku-Klux-Klan Movement in the South. With a Discussion of the Causes which gave Rise to it, and the Social and Political Issues Emanating from it. When you think of the importance of all advertising, do you consider the peculiar picturesqueness of advertising through sandwiches? H. R. So she chose to prove his metal—with, perhaps, a side-thought that the fairy godmother's intervention, coming later, might be more effective—and would certainly gain in picturesqueness! The Great Miss Driver A second paper may discuss famous markets in our own land, notably the markets of New Orleans and other Southern cities; their picturesqueness; their value to the housewife. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women This axiom it was that permeated the sinister perfection of Baudelaire, the verbal beauty of Flaubert, and the picturesqueness of Gautier. Lafcadio Hearn The girl attendants in their gaily coloured dresses and sun-bonnets, and the men in smock-frocks and large straw hats, added picturesqueness to the scene. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle He writes with simplicity and with a certain vivid picturesqueness, rarely yielding to the rhetorical impulses which governed the ordinary prose of his age. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" No poet ever imagined a situation in which the free movements of human nature, the picturesqueness of outward circumstance, and the profoundest spiritual interests were so happily, easily, and effectively combined. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I He has much to say as well as a striking manner of saying it, and the interest of his work as a story yields in nothing to its picturesqueness as a piece of literary composition. A Short History of French Literature The Japanese letters, therefore, above all, have the charm of temperament, the very essence of the man, recorded in a style of remarkable picturesqueness and reality. Lafcadio Hearn Calling for a pint of beer, he seated himself beside a rough-looking labourer known as "Ruddy" Bill, on account of the extreme picturesqueness and sustained directness of his language. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle It is vigorously written, and with a certain picturesqueness that is exceedingly attractive. The Origin of the World According to Revelation and Science I had never been inside it, but its picturesqueness appeals to me every time I pass it, and you may often see visitors leaning over the low wall of the garden and enthusing about it. Windyridge In the fourteenth century it lost with its inflections not a little of its picturesqueness, and had as yet hit upon no means of supplying the want. A Short History of French Literature She attained to that fine and almost demoniacal picturesqueness which glorifies even the most commonplace smith when you see him in his forge by night. Bye-Ways It winds ribbon-like in and about the city, adding greatly to its picturesqueness as seen from an elevation. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia These, for their parts, offered a perfect spectacle of wild picturesqueness. The White Hand and the Black A Story of the Natal Rising His aunt's daily pilgrimage began to assume a picturesqueness and complexity that were puzzling. Fairfax and His Pride His patriotism is conventional, his verse conventional, his expression conventional, though the convention is in all three cases slightly concealed by the skilful adoption of a certain outward colouring of energy and picturesqueness. A Short History of French Literature Against the background of somber, primitive forest she posed with an unconscious picturesqueness, bizarre and out of place. Red Nails They are probably the earliest poems of their kind in the language, and they are full of force and picturesqueness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 6 "Dodwell" to "Drama" It is excessively ill-natured in parts, but of its vivid picturesqueness, and of its general accuracy as a transcript of conversation, there can be no two opinions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" An old, disused mill added to the picturesqueness of the scene. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 It handled with much extravagance, but with extraordinary force and picturesqueness, the adventures of a bandit in Norway. A Short History of French Literature For the next hour they will exchange their picturesqueness for the decidedly reverse of the slaughter yard. A Frontier Mystery I believe that it will take as its theme the magnificence of the spectacle of Man’s successful fight with Nature, not the grotesque and squalid picturesqueness of his occasional defeat. The Future of English Poetry Its picturesqueness attracts large numbers of visitors and there are many English residents in the town and its vicinity. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" She bends over her work and draws her head back, and scans the effect on one side and the other with, really, the most irritating picturesqueness. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) But the story is excellently managed, the various incidents are drawn with remarkable vividness and picturesqueness, the descriptions are uniformly excellent, and the style is almost impeccable. A Short History of French Literature Perhaps it is more important to the picturesqueness of the detail that the journey should be a hurried one, and without knowing it the biographer is biased in that direction. Crécy The advantage of modern language and versification would have rendered it easy for a man less gifted than him to improve on isolated passages, but the free fancy and picturesqueness of Chaucer are wanting. The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition But the desire to see the picturesqueness that he had fancied proved itself to have none of the force of a motive. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. What picturesqueness, what color, what passion blend with memories of Andalusia! Cathedrals of Spain One cannot but be impressed as much through the picturesqueness of the scene presented by the half-naked, ragged, cadaverous throng as by the sad moral which these poor creatures suggest. The Pearl of India He was a man always attending to picturesqueness of incident, and one who thought exactitude very negligible. Crécy To its vice she gave little thought; she fancied it was not worse than other cities, if the truth were known; it was the picturesqueness of its methods that had held it in the limelight. Ancestors A Novel They are as ill-dressed as their betters are well-dressed, and their garments have that sooty-looking surface which has nothing in common with some forms of ragged picturesqueness. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. What she loses in freedom and access, she certainly gains in picturesqueness. Cathedrals of Spain The Romantic pieces already glanced at, obnoxious and obvious as are their defects, unite the pathos and the picturesqueness just assigned to her in a most remarkable manner. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) A mere ramble amid such scenes of diverse picturesqueness—nature’s wear and tear in moods of passion—amounts to a study of geological architecture under favoring conditions. Belford's Magazine, Volume II, No. 8, January, 1889 Its situation certainly is all but perfect, whilst the picturesqueness and the extensiveness of its surrounding scenery are the admiration of all who see it. In the Border Country The older custom had perhaps a certain picturesqueness which was lost with it. Books Condemned to be Burnt They learned, perhaps, that the order and freedom of Western civilization are infinitely more valuable than the picturesqueness of Oriental society. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century The wonders of the poem are first its pathos, and then its picturesqueness and its charm. Oliver Goldsmith This the 'reading public' require, and this is the reason that Sir Walter Scott's poems, though so loosely written, are pleasing, and interest us by their picturesqueness. Notes and Queries, Number 237, May 13, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc A nation of painters has built picturesquely, but this picturesqueness has fought against the attainment of the finest architectural qualities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Innocent of pruning knife or fertilizer its growth has a rugged picturesqueness about it that makes the well trained tree look pusillanimously conventional beside it. Old Plymouth Trails The military system, which formed so important a part of the New Englander's education, added to the picturesqueness of his life and to the notion of solidarity. Noah Webster American Men of Letters The pine woodland added shelter and picturesqueness to the road, and to the light breeze its sweet resinous odor. Peggy Owen and Liberty The actual drovers and dominies, ladies and lairds, whom Sir Walter used as his models, figure here, living their own richly characteristic and romantic lives with unabated picturesqueness. Lavengro The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest With picturesque figure sculpture, admissible in the degree of its picturesqueness. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) I found the cave bearing an aspect of more than ordinary picturesqueness. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. Of all this we have heard even too much, thanks to the picturesqueness which has recommended the milieu of Monsieur Taine to writers more mindful of literary effect than of the philosophy of art. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion The extreme south of the county is lacking in picturesqueness, being for the most part level, with occasional slight undulations. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" The cell of Mortimer and its occupants, the morning after his arrest, presented a scene of gloomy picturesqueness. Daisy's Necklace And What Came of It The lakes at Silkeborg, with their idyllic picturesqueness, interested Hardy, while the pike and the perch fishing yielded good sport. A Danish Parsonage His literary style had the same qualities and defects as his music: brilliancy and picturesqueness, and an absence of genuineness and simplicity. Records of Later Life The Indian, too, was still sufficiently plentiful to contribute much to the environing picturesqueness. The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 In this trip also we had the opportunity of visiting some of the Castelli, which are interesting generally rather for their picturesqueness than for arch�ological reasons. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia If he is artistic he will choose a dwelling for its picturesqueness, regardless of drains and dank ditches near the house. The Etiquette of Engagement and Marriage Describing Modern Manners and Customs of Courtship and Marriage, and giving Full Details regarding the Wedding Ceremony and Arrangements Mr. Mortlake, who is fond of what he calls the picturesqueness of Charlestown by night, has seen him—well, it is enough that I should have heard. The Gorgeous Isle A Romance; Scene: Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 But natural beauty and Indian picturesqueness do not fill the place in the soldierly breast of fair civilian lady faces, nor torrential streams of cold mountain water supply the music of the locomotive’s toot. The Rustler of Wind River For picturesqueness and appropriateness, in conjunction with the lives of the individuals of which his novels abound, one could hardly improve on many actual places of which he wrote. Dickens' London And indeed he manifestly wasn't unsympathetic; he had the strongest proclivity for the romantic and picturesque, and it was largely the romantic picturesqueness of renunciation that he urged upon me. The Passionate Friends The class of writing to which it belongs demands a certain dramatic picturesqueness to point the moral effectively. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) "In the Palace of the King is a masterpiece; there is a picturesqueness, a sincerity which will catch all readers in an agreeable storm of emotion, and even leave a hardened reviewer impressed and delighted." The Romance of a Plain Man It was bare and wind-swept, but there was a sort of rugged picturesqueness about it that appealed to Esther. The Phantom Lover "I have often heard him say," said Forster, "that in leaving the neighbourhood of Rochester he was leaving everything that had given his early life its picturesqueness or sunshine." Dickens' London The novelty of her peculiarities and picturesqueness has worn off, and between her and her more fortunate sisters of the West there is a great gulf fixed. Our Moslem Sisters A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness Interpreted by Those Who Heard It During the carnival season the ball-room of the establishment is said to present, in the form of nightly masquerade balls, scenes which for gayety and picturesqueness cannot be surpassed in Europe. Due South or Cuba Past and Present Barnriff, viewed from a distance, was not without a certain picturesqueness; but the distance had to be great enough to lose sight of the uncouthness which a close inspection revealed. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country It was exquisitely picturesque, but this very picturesqueness constituted its danger; for the place was a perfect death trap. Robinetta Such buildings as I saw in no way marred the view, but rather added to it a touch of human picturesqueness. Westward with the Prince of Wales The actual drovers and dominies, ladies and lairds, whom Sir Walter used as his models, figure here, living their own richly characteristic and romantic lives with unabated picturesqueness. Law and Laughter There was a degree of picturesqueness about this establishment which was not without its attraction, and it was certainly the most cleanly public house in which we found a temporary home while on the island. Due South or Cuba Past and Present There, too, in the distance, peeping through the trees, were scattered profiles of oddly designed houses, possessing a wonderful picturesqueness to which they had no real claims. The Law-Breakers The stress upon purely personal qualities gave picturesqueness, color, and vigor to the early life of the United States. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures Charmingly, possibly romantically, situated, it lies in a shallow valley with all the picturesqueness of its varied style limned against the sky in truly impressionistic fashion. The Cathedrals of Northern France The next score of years, while they will probably do much for the country as regards commercial and intellectual improvement, will prove fatal in a degree to the picturesqueness which now renders Mexico so attractive. Aztec Land In point of picturesqueness the old town has precedence. Due South or Cuba Past and Present As yet there was no roof on it, but the walls were up, and the picturesqueness of the design of the building was fully apparent. The Law-Breakers Interesting as it is to glance at him against that European background which adds picturesqueness to his qualities, the "Man from Home" is still more interesting in his native habitat. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures Lisieux, too, has a wealth of attraction for those who fondly admire reeking picturesqueness and old timbered houses, though its cathedral will not please. The Cathedrals of Northern France Virginia’s pulses beat, as she saw the home of Leopold for the first time, and she was proud of its picturesqueness, its riches and grandeur, as if she had some right in it, too. The Princess Virginia Here the display of fruits and vegetables is something marvelous, both in variety and in picturesqueness of arrangement. Due South or Cuba Past and Present There was no great originality of design, merely the delightful picturesqueness which unstripped logs never fail to yield. The Law-Breakers The individual loses color and picturesqueness, precisely as he casts aside the national costume of the land from which he came. The American Mind The E. T. Earl Lectures Of manifestly Renaissance tendency, this fa�ade for sheer charm and picturesqueness must rank with the best, with the qualifying statement added that it offends against many consistent artistic and architectural principles. The Cathedrals of Northern France His sentiment lacks novelty, but I quote him for the picturesqueness of his style. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule With that yearning for picturesqueness which is a peculiar trait of Americans, the miners felt that when their settlement had attained the dignity of nearly a dozen dwellings, it was entitled to an appropriate name. A Waif of the Mountains About the end of old Church Lane cluster a few old red-brick houses, which preserve a certain flavour of picturesqueness in the street. Hampstead and Marylebone The Fascination of London Indeed, with the passing of the temporal power of the Pope, the picturesqueness of Rome largely vanished. Italy, the Magic Land There is no doubt that the picturesqueness of a sea voyage is quite destroyed by a steamer. Six Letters From the Colonies The rocky nature of the site permitted little grading, but it added to the picturesqueness. Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail This combination of realism and picturesqueness, assisted by his marvellous technical power, put him far above and apart from all his compeers. Six Centuries of Painting These letters are marked by purity of style, quaint picturesqueness, and an admirable couleur locale. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864 The combination of the picturesqueness of Isaak Walton with the humour of Burnand could not be otherwise, but most unfortunately the form of its publication ruined the effect of the drawings. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 His dancing is not the more graceful for coming after hours of field-labor, but it lacks neither activity nor picturesqueness: above all, it is the outcome of light-heartedness and enjoyment in capering. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 26, October, 1880 Modern narrators may well turn their attention to the picturesqueness of the scene, to the dark rocks of the Castle crag over against the churchyard, and to the earnest faces around. Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning There must be an element of picturesqueness, certainly, to take the eye with pleasure in the contrast between the frailty of man's works and the imperishable loveliness of nature. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit For the same reason the story attains a picturesqueness absent from the dreary plains of Galicia and Poland and Flanders. The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 8) History of the European War from Official Sources A fishing village has a picturesqueness and a kinship with Nature and the hills, utterly lacking in a mining locality. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Such picturesqueness, however, is rather for one who seeks, than a view which thrusts itself upon the merely casual observer. Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 A cool air blew uphill from the river and the patch of grass with its fringe of small, dusty trees had a certain picturesqueness in the twilight. Blake's Burden But what we gain in comfort we lose in picturesqueness. Harper's Young People, September 28, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly It stands in stubborn picturesqueness, at the receipt of sad-eyed contemplation and the sufferance of "sketches." The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index The Atlantic is bridged,—there open up rich veins of picturesqueness and new grand vague ideas, all in full swing when the war breaks out. Rosinante to the Road Again Yet this place, of which we are so proud, and that it delights us to extol to strangers, has a history that renders its singular picturesqueness additionally striking. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand It was roomy, cool, and comfortable, with a picturesqueness all its own. Louisiana Lou A Western Story The same poetical feeling is shown in his biographies; his subject is invariably chosen for its picturesqueness, and whatever is unessential to portraiture is thrown into the background. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History I appreciate the picturesqueness of it all—hearing the very language of the Bible, and all that. Ghetto Comedies And while he admires the shrewdness, picturesqueness, and bracing morality of Carlyle's teaching, Fitzjames dissents from his philosophy. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice His style is characterised by variety, liveliness, and picturesqueness. Helps to Latin Translation at Sight I realized for the first time that the east had surfeited me with picturesqueness. A Son of the Middle Border When the train got as far as the composite ugliness of the ships and tugs and drawbridges of Harlem River, the companions accepted the ensemble as picturesqueness, and did not require beauty of it. Imaginary Interviews The church was of different dates, and the very neglect which it suffered gave it an extreme picturesqueness. Beside Still Waters These criminal courts, he says in another letter, are a 'never-ending source of interest and picturesqueness for me. The Life of Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, Bart., K.C.S.I. A Judge of the High Court of Justice Always alert to the main chance, Kelley, after a few preliminary sittings of unusual picturesqueness, inspired the spirits to predict that Lasky would one day be elected King of Poland. Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters We never got beyond a feeling for the beauty, the picturesqueness and the charm of our surroundings. A Son of the Middle Border Built in the Flemish style, with all the abruptness, quaintness, and picturesqueness of Pointed architecture, it was considered one of the most curious monuments of the town. A Winter Amid the Ice and Other Thrilling Stories Bessie held the idea that Cliffe-on-Sea was one of the prettiest places in England, and it was certainly not devoid of picturesqueness. Our Bessie Her materials are chosen for some quality of picturesqueness rather than for the purpose of illustrating any phase of life at the Antipodes or elsewhere. Australian Writers A beaver colony at the source of every stream would moderate these extremes and add to the picturesqueness and beauty of many scenes that are now growing ugly with erosion. Wild Life on the Rockies There was a rude picturesqueness in the gaping of the vans and tents. Gipsy Life being an account of our Gipsies and their children, with suggestions for their improvement The American likes it, and he would not like the picturesqueness of the Spanish or the Latin races. Our Italy The slow constructive process of building moral credits by systematic education lacks the picturesqueness of propaganda. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Adventures, picturesqueness, even romance, are recognised and appreciated only at a distance. Sawtooth Ranch Yet this religious fervor becomes the basis of sublimity, pathos, and picturesqueness, such as can seldom be approached even by the finest productions of the Attic muse. Hebrew Literature The scene possessed not the sublime grandeur of Switzerland, nor the rugged picturesqueness of Scotland: its characteristic was the finished, spiritualized, voluptuous beauty of Italy. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Its comparatively tame scenes and incidents gather picturesqueness and interest under the rich lights of Carlyle’s mind. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete The three rivals for Ellen's hand are real men, with individualities which enhance and deepen the picturesqueness of each other by contrast. Lady of the Lake That Mr. Barr might pass in a drawing-room on account of his picturesqueness, if he were to brush his hair; but the other one is simply a gawk, to be plain. A Romantic Young Lady Though these people wear the scantiest of clothing, yet they affect strong contrasts in colors, which will give picturesqueness even to rags. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months The novelty and the picturesqueness of the thing appealed to me. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century The behavior of Mortlake put the last touch to the picturesqueness of the position. The Big Bow Mystery Crevices bare of mortar gave rare holding ground for moss and wall flower, and ivy and clematis mantled chapel and turrets with a dank shroud that added to the picturesqueness of the building. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls The spots of allegria had disappeared from the cheeks of Marian, that now gleamed in all their crimson picturesqueness. The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness In picturesqueness of costume, the Turk leads the world. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months All four are interesting for their strong individuality and their picturesqueness, but it is a pleasure to turn from them to creatures like our four common New England Hylocichl�, or small thrushes. Birds in the Bush In his mind there was an element of picturesqueness in that joint page of Holton-Montgomery history. Otherwise Phyllis The streams flowed uncovered through the streets which added greatly to the picturesqueness of the place. In Doublet and Hose A Story for Girls Then you appreciate its extraordinary position, its picturesqueness, its steepness, its desolation and decay. A Little Tour of France An encampment of native Indians was located on the river's bank, under the shade of a grove of trees, adding to the picturesqueness of the scene during our visit. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months Though the appearance of the City had changed, and its colour and picturesqueness were gone, at no time was London more powerful or more magnificent. The History of London Alas, it was not her Horace who poured out a volume of musical tone, vigorous English, elegant rhetoric, with the expression, the abandonment, the picturesqueness of a great actor. The Art of Disappearing I am not a believer in the picturesqueness of poverty. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Camels are employed for all sorts of work in Northern India, and add greatly to the picturesqueness of the road and street traffic. India and the Indians Eleven water-falls of greater or less magnitude come tumbling into the valley, adding to the picturesqueness of the scene. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands I feel very often that if one lived in all this picturesqueness, the horrors of the past, the vacuity of the present, would drive one I know not whither. The Spirit of Rome In the first place, it has a certain panoramic element which admits—which indeed necessitates—picturesqueness. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century She was exquisitely dressed, the distinguishing note of her attire being, as always in my eyes, a demure sort of richness and picturesqueness. The Message It was all uninteresting night to me now—beauty, picturesqueness, enchantment gone, with that repressed yelp. Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation In picturesqueness of costume the Turk leads the world. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands A beautiful, rich, red silk apron, and a set of well-chosen coloured scarves drawn across the breast completed her costume and added to the fantastic colouring and picturesqueness of the whole. Through Finland in Carts M. Ernest Feydeau is bold enough to desire to be an artist as well as a scholar; for picturesqueness in no wise detracts from accuracy, though erudites generally affect to believe the contrary. The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt He had the natural picturesqueness of the unadulterated farce. Germinie Lacerteux Yet everything was delightful to Dolly's eyes; the novelty was perfect, the picturesqueness undeniable. The End of a Coil Petrarch is also conscious of the beauty of rock scenery, and is perfectly able to distinguish the picturesqueness from the utility of nature. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 At the present day much of this picturesqueness has passed away, and coachmen and chauffeurs in Western livery and the motor taxi-cab have largely replaced them. Through Finland in Carts Many of the western oaks display their manifold picturesqueness. The Book of the National Parks The town was still surrounded by the old walls and the moat, and of a picturesqueness that seemed as if it would never pall. The Martian Between the beauty and picturesqueness, and the wealth of old historic legend and story clustering about it everywhere, Dolly's dream was entrancing. The End of a Coil Limerick itself has nothing to recommend it as regards picturesqueness, but there is much beauty in the country surrounding it. The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon The garden which lies in front of these houses adds much to their picturesqueness in summer by showing the glimpses of old walls and red brick through curtains of green leaves. Chelsea The Fascination of London Higher up the mountain-slopes the forests thin and lessen in size, while increasing in picturesqueness. The Book of the National Parks They not only add picturesqueness to the religious situation, they also reveal the unrest of the people and their desire for something better than the orthodox faith of their fathers furnishes them. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ The color, the life, the picturesqueness, the noises, all these are distinctive. The Critic in the Orient Its only present utility is to add picturesqueness to a scene of still life. Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter The ricsha furnishes the streets with an additional element of picturesqueness. A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore At that time he did not wear the moustache and beard which afterwards lent a picturesqueness to his face. Old Familiar Faces Silhouetted against the moonlight, the tall Bostonian acquired a picturesqueness lacking in daylight. Across the Mesa Its main claim to this distinction is the possession of the famous Maidan or Esplanade, which runs along the Hoogly river for nearly two miles and which far surpasses the Luneta of Manila in picturesqueness. The Critic in the Orient The greater picturesqueness and reality of back courts, and everything appertaining to the rear of a house, as compared with the front, which is fitted up for the public eye. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 It destroyed their picturesqueness but those gowns could not destroy their symmetrical beauty of limb and body. Flash-lights from the Seven Seas The Persian aphorism that warns us to beware of poets, princes, and women must have had a satirical reference to the fact that their governance of the world is by means of picturesqueness. Old Familiar Faces Clarice, you are pushing philanthropy too far: the picturesqueness of this hermit, and his alleged romantic woes, have misled you as to the nature of your interest in him. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice What comes from a far country carries our thoughts there, and gains by the wealth and picturesqueness of its associations. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory Her gown sat without any; so did her collar; both were rather uncivilized, without partaking of the picturesqueness of savage costume. The Old Helmet, Volume II Pauline was deeply mystified, and perhaps her vanity was also touched; the mental spectacle of the two men fighting each other for possession of her had faded and a certain picturesqueness had gone from life. Ringfield A Novel Always it has been the picturesqueness of tyranny that has kept it up. Old Familiar Faces They shut off——" "They shut off rain and snow and dirt, and I still fail to see the picturesqueness of dirt! Free Air The picturesqueness of human thought may console us for its imperfection. The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory We find it strongly composed, evincing a clear knowledge of every point to be observed in extracting from the subject all the picturesqueness there was in it. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Robert Cromie's remarkably clever and entertaining volume is told with much of the vivid fancy of a Jules Verne—with remarkable picturesqueness, and the experiences of mortals in Mars are described with considerable humour. The Crack of Doom Bazaars might be artistic and unique, but as their quaintness and picturesqueness increased so also did the odours of garlic, the uncleanliness, and the flies in their myriads. The Tale of a Trooper The valley is one of exquisite beauty, presenting a combination of mingled picturesqueness and sublimity, the like of which is rarely to be seen. The Huguenots in France It robs my visit of all its picturesqueness and adventure. Vera or, The Nihilists A series of oppositional lines has more picturesqueness than the tangent, its equivalent. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures This, which is known as "A Tale of Robin Hood", may be cited in its quaint and dramatic picturesqueness as the most perfect and complete example of song literature extant. The Dukeries Mr. Greeley's canvass was one of great picturesqueness and industry. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History The most striking peculiarity of the surroundings of Monzie is the combination of wild and mountainous scenery with cultivation and picturesqueness. Chronicles of Strathearn I wish that girl could stay here one winter and enjoy the picturesqueness of a Hopi Indian girl's life. The High Calling Here personality is the first requirement, but harmony of arrangement and picturesqueness may be united thereto. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures They did not add to the picturesqueness of the scene, but each carried a bag which was charged with romance for the natives. The Huntress The partition between it and the tiny hall had been removed, according to her suggestion, and the straight staircase altered by means of a landing and an abrupt turn which transformed it into picturesqueness. The Indifference of Juliet A crooked stick on a heath has its picturesqueness as well as the Corinthian column. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 It maintained, however, partly perhaps by the intention of its designers, but chiefly through accident, a character of picturesqueness and homeliness. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 The picturesqueness of detail which seemed to mark the beginning of so many of Charles Frohman's personal and professional friendships attended him in England, as the case of his first experience with Edna May shows. Charles Frohman: Manager and Man Perhaps I may reasonably anticipate one type of criticism by adding that I have felt something of the pinch and hardship of the life, as well as enjoyed its picturesqueness. A Poor Man's House Scipio's mournful eyes followed the disappearing forms with an appreciation of their purpose rather than of the picturesqueness of their appearance. A Tar-Heel Baron The picturesqueness of youth was lined—not too deeply lined—by the engraving hand of experience. Skinner's Dress Suit In studying the constructive features of the Queen Anne renaissance, we find many examples of richly-ornamented façades, combined with affected picturesqueness and quaintness unthought of two hundred years ago. Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885 It is inferior in picturesqueness to some other portions of Switzerland, but superior in grandeur of its glaciers, in which respect it has no rival but Zermatt. Shepp's Photographs of the World All this would furnish studies innumerable to those who are able to fabricate mouldy walls and tumble-down picturesqueness out of little tubes of colour and gray canvas. The Automobilist Abroad The extreme picturesqueness and genuine rustic dignity of the old man's appearance made him an admirable subject for pictorial study. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men. Long before daybreak the banging of big crackers rouses the island from its slumbers, and high mass is hardly over when a procession of strange picturesqueness streams out of church into the sunshine. Stray Studies from England and Italy I cannot say too much of the brightness, intelligence, picturesqueness, and care of Fechter's impersonation throughout. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 3, 1836-1870 I have never seen, I think, an intelligent and clear view of the whole character so well sustained throughout; and there is a very captivating air of romance and picturesqueness added, which is quite new. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 Marseilles was our great dissipation, its hotels, its cafés and restaurants, its cosmopolitan life and movement, its gaiety and the picturesqueness of its old streets and wharves. The Automobilist Abroad This certainly lent an element of picturesqueness to the Renaissance Garden of the Louvre, a development of the same spirit which inspired this artist in his collaboration at Chenonceaux. Royal Palaces and Parks of France The life around one, simple as it is, has the colour and picturesqueness of the South. Stray Studies from England and Italy There were nurses and valets and maids of all shades from ebony to cream-colour, and of all varieties of picturesqueness. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim The peculiarities of dress and manner are fused together for the sake of picturesqueness. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 On the right were cornfields, the dark green blades only six or eight inches high; and scattered over them the omnipresent scarecrows which, in the spring, add at least picturesqueness to the New England landscape. Ruth Fielding on the St. Lawrence The Queer Old Man of the Thousand Islands And not only many tongues but many employments have enhanced the picturesqueness of American Slang. American Sketches 1908 Few situations in poetry are more artistic than this meeting of Æneas and the Queen in its suddenness and picturesqueness. Stray Studies from England and Italy But such did not possess the elements of unprofessional picturesqueness this particular one presented told to its upholders and opposers. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim "Mr. Firth Scott has not attempted to embellish these narratives, but with the help of maps and some good illustrations he brings them vividly before us in all their picturesqueness." Colonial Born A tale of the Queensland bush It was a pretty place, with a quaint picturesqueness. That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 His silence and his concentration give him a picturesqueness which his rivals lack. American Sketches 1908 You may hatch and scratch your way to picturesqueness or to deformity—never to beauty. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature It was the emotional aspect of the situation which delighted and disturbed him, the dramatic picturesqueness of it. In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim For picturesqueness, and for the care and attention paid to the minutest details, it may be doubted if either 46 B. Picart in France, or J. Pine in this country, has ever been excelled. Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography Nor has Rossetti anywhere displayed a more sustained picturesqueness. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti A hackneyism lacks the picturesqueness of originality, but is as useful in its way as a public road to a desired destination. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan Contention or strength, weakness or picturesqueness, and all other such accidents in either, shall have due place. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature In over two years in the city she had never seen a millionaire nor a criminal; she knew the picturesqueness neither of wealth nor of pariah poverty. The Job An American Novel That some degree of picturesqueness, however, is consistent with utility, we think will be apparent on examining the design herewith presented. Woodward's Graperies and Horticultural Buildings I think the poem is saved by its picturesqueness, but that otherwise the story up to the point reached is too purely repellent. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti Everything is grey, naked, and barren, not on a scale grand enough to be imposing, nor with any picturesqueness of form to relieve its sterility. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Him also I will paint, with such picturesqueness as he may have; yet not putting the picturesqueness first in him, as in you I have not put the gentlemanliness first. On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature The author is no dry chronicler, or plodding statician, but an artist, fully alive to the picturesqueness of his topic. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 The man’s face is somewhat forbidding, the boy’s less so, while the countenance of the girl has a pleasing expression—or, at least, a picturesqueness such as is commonly associated with gipsies. The Land of Fire A Tale of Adventure Edinburgh is considered one of the most remarkable cities in the world, in respect to the picturesqueness of its situation. Rollo in Scotland How I shall miss the free wild ways of California—its rural sports—with their quaint originality and picturesqueness! The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea The stories are close translations, losing only a certain picturesqueness and vigour in their foreign guise; but the melodies are exactly as sung by the Indians. Indian Story and Song from North America As there were six of them, complete in equipments, the scene was extensive and of most admired confusion; ingenuity had exhausted itself in variety, to enhance picturesqueness of effect. From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life Unfortunately for the picturesqueness and poetry of this historic incident, modern civilization has utilized the island as a hen-yard, and the historic cellar as a chicken-roost. fish markets along the wharves. The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 5, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 5, May, 1886 In the novelty of its scenes and characters, in its poetic simplicity of form and its unconscious picturesqueness, it is widely different from anything in our literature. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science Both are garbed in grand style, in the national costume of that country, which, in point of picturesqueness is not exceeded by any other in the world. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea More smoothness in his fortunes would have shorn them of their tragic picturesqueness. Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography It came off on the 8th of September, and for costumes, picturesqueness, and general effect, might have been called, to copy from piano literature, Le Songe d'un Artiste. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy These add greatly to the picturesqueness of the wide massive wall—wide enough for two or three persons to ride abreast. Travels in the Far East Strangers are always going crazy over its 'picturesqueness,' as they call it. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901 She was unconsciously beautiful like a saint, like the picturesqueness of a lonely tree which lives to shelter unnumbered lives and to stand quietly in its place. The Queen's Twin and Other Stories And we need not say that vines, except either on a hill-side or against a house, do not add to the picturesqueness of a landscape. Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Situated in southern New England, it has roots which extend well back into the Eighteenth Century, and its traditions, keeping pace with its growth, rival in dignity and picturesqueness those of its larger neighbours. Tutors' Lane The street scenes in Peking are wonderful because of their variety, and the length of the streets adds to their picturesqueness, although they are not quite so spectacular as those of Jeypore, India. Travels in the Far East Each had aimed at picturesqueness or stately magnificence, and neither had failed to obtain it. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Now, however, its picturesqueness is marred by the presence of a barn-like structure containing the pulping works, while the fall itself is utilized to drive the machinery. Peeps at Many Lands: Norway I shall refer presently to cases whence the plumage has faded entirely out of the story—and that in spite of its picturesqueness—without leaving a trace. The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology This custom does not make for the fine uniform appearance of the men of the British Royal Flying Corps, but it gives a picturesqueness of effect which is, perhaps, ample recompense. High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France My plan was faintly to imitate the simple narrative style, the conciseness, the picturesqueness, the eloquence, the poetry, and the philosophic spirit of a history, the most remarkable of any extant—that of the world. The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Mr. Martineau may have begun by this time to discern that it is not 'picturesqueness,' but cold precision, that my Vorstellungs-faehigkeit demands. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 In the towns civilization has robbed the wedding of its picturesqueness. Peeps at Many Lands: Norway The river was a scene of far greater bustle and activity and picturesqueness than it is now. The Story of Rouen They have vigor and swiftness of movement, grace and picturesqueness, simplicity and spontaneity. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) They solve the wet spot problem admirably, permit the culture of native water lilies, orchids, and numerous other beautiful plants, and certainly contribute their share of picturesqueness. Making A Rock Garden He had his little affectations of speech as of style, and they added to its picturesqueness. Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties It has a few lakelets, but it has no large bodies of water, like the lakes which contribute so largely to the beauty and picturesqueness of Switzerland and Scotland. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 All of the wicked men and most of the virtuous ones, who had lent picturesqueness to Medora in the old days, were gone. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands Perhaps prosperity made up to them for the loss of picturesqueness. Days Off And Other Digressions This gave our cabin quite a chanticleer sort of comb along its top, and added to the picturesqueness of its appearance. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness She was right, for in the town, cleaned out of picturesqueness, cholera could not again do its work in the old wholesale fashion. Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties As I travelled from Kandy to Newera Ellia, and back again to Kandy by a different route, my impression of the picturesqueness and productiveness of the country was confirmed. Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 Not so with his most famous contemporary, Benjamin West, whose life was filled to overflowing with the contrast and picturesqueness which Copley's lacked. American Men of Mind The note of his writings had been common sense and rugged veracity; the dominant notes of theirs were picturesqueness, eloquence, emotion, even sentimentalism. Dr. Johnson and His Circle The English “waits,” or serenaders, who sang under the squires' windows in hopes of receiving a “Christmas box,” unconsciously add a touch of romance and picturesqueness to the associations of the season. Myths and Legends of Christmastide The picturesqueness of Mrs. Jamison’s stories is remarkable, and the reader unconsciously becomes Seraph’s friend and sympathizer in all her trials and triumphs. The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent Artists consider that this adds to the picturesqueness of the river, but I would have preferred a clear view up to the mountains at its head. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta All this picturesqueness, and more besides, was reflected in the placid water. A Venetian June There should be a picturesqueness in my descent to hell which would go far to place my name at the head of the list of those sinners who have achieved immortality——" "Richard! The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The low-storeyed houses, built bungalow-wise, have an air of capaciousness and ease; and further out, in Kenilworth, there are comfortable dwellings, surrounded with trees, and suggestive of a certain suburban picturesqueness. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 6) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 We approached the place in about an hour; but on the way I could not help being struck with the picturesqueness of our party. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Its valley, or bed, being spanned by a number of bridges, adds not a little to its picturesqueness. Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta The English flag has a home on those heights which we have already said may challenge the world for bold picturesqueness and beauty. A History of the Four Georges, Volume II A couple of steeples added to its picturesqueness, and a swift creek, crossed by a small bridge, interposed between myself and the main part of the place. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War He would not have been an artist if he had not been powerfully struck with a sense of her picturesqueness. Lodusky Though not so successful as their rivals the English, there was a degree of picturesqueness about French colonisation, that, in the present day, strongly claims the attention of the American poet, novelist, and historian. The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire I shouldn’t have urged you to come, but I was hoping you would like it—its picturesqueness, the unconventionality, and the dozen-and-one other things which appeal to me so strongly. The Fighting Shepherdess Before me were the actors themselves, or types of them, in all their truthful reality, in all their wild picturesqueness. The Scalp Hunters They all wore simple little costumes, just some bit of bright color draped to give them a quaint picturesqueness. Mistress Anne The enemy is in sight—a band of guerilleros, in all their picturesqueness of manga and serapé—of scarlet, purple, and gold. The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Did she know of these harmonies of color or of the picturesqueness of her appearance as she came across the bridge in the sunlight? Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 For drinks, liquors mixed with brandy or absinthe: in the whole thing neither originality nor picturesqueness. The Simple Life Even the Germany has been suspected by some critics of sacrificing fidelity to poignancy of contrast and picturesqueness of narrative. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society |
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