Modern paintings as seen and described by great writers (1911)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, compiler, editor · New York : Dodd, Mead & Company · leaf 362
in its grammatical sense), con-tradictions are reconciled and looking at the man I see thepictures, and looking at the pictures I see the man. But at the outset the difficulties were enormous. It waslike a newly-discovered Greek text, without punctuation orcapital letters. Here was a man capable of… … PORTRAIT OF HIS MOTHER 273 ceeding them in gracfousness of intention and subtle happi-ness of design, who would lay down his palette and run toa newspaper office to polish the tail of an epigram which hewas launching against an unfortunate critic who had failedto distinguish between an etching, and…
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