THE HEAT:'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'—'paint me like your French girls.' The two-woman, huntress-gets-captured-by-the-game romancePortrait of a Lady on Fireoffers a lot: particularly ravishing color that makes the actresses look like Fragonards. And the spirit of the French Revolution w...
Osmond had told her to think of what he had said; and she did so indeed, and of many other things. The suggestion from another that she had a definite influence on Lord Warburton—this had given her the start that accompanies unexpected recognition. Was it true that there was something ...
The identification of the statue as Apollo does make the identification of the scene as the sacrifice of Iphigenia a little suspect in my opinion. Thus, I tend to believe another scholarly identification of the young woman as the Pythia, the high priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi,....
She watched her indications as if for herself also much depended on them—Pansy already so represented part of the service she could render, part of the responsibility she could face. Her father took so the childish view of her that he had not yet explained to her the new relation in ...
But it’s her dreamy delivery of Alfred Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” that stops time, wraps it in gauze and conveys the full tragedy of a heroine yearning to be known and, yet, hidden away. In the moment of her undoing she says, melodramatically to ...
He was ready for her to refuse him or tell him to go ’round back and seek entry of the cook. The very fingers by which he made his living—and a number of other parts—were long since numb, or he would not have knocked on even this door. The lady stepped back and gestured him...
Portrait of a lady, 1872 Portrait of a Lady, 1860 Portrait of a lady with a fan, 1850 Portrait of a lady with roses in her hair, (Countess Pushkina) Portrait of Amélie of Leuchtenberg Portrait of Augusta of Saxe Weimar Eisenach Portrait of Charlotte of Belgium, 1864 Portrait of...
Elizabeth II: royal tour of New ZealandElizabeth II (second from right) on a royal tour of New Zealand, 1953–54.(more) Beginning in November 1953 the queen and the duke of Edinburgh made a six-month round-the-world tour of theCommonwealth, which included the first visit to Australia and...
never taken the crude form of desiring a dull wife; this lady’s intelligence was to be a silver plate, not an earthen one — a plate that he might heap up with ripe fruits, to which it would give a decorative25 value, so that talk might become for him a sort of served dessert. ...
had seen ride by one day a young lady of such beauty that he had made a sketch22 of her from memory, and finding where she lived, had hung about in the park to get a glimpse of her again, and having succeeded, had made her portrait and brought it back to town, in the hope that...