Modern paintings as seen and described by great writers (1911)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, compiler, editor · New York : Dodd, Mead & Company · leaf 428
nobleshave an air of culture and breeding, his roughs are roughs in-deed. Each of those who may be called the secondary charactersin the composition has his physiognomy marked with some per-sonal shade of malevolence, or envy, or indifference, or sheerbrutality. The sea of fury is only broken by… … CHRIST BEFORE PILATE 327 ticeship, the youth, still in his teens, worked as a journey-man from five in the morning till night, at the scanty wagesof five shillings a week. Yet outward poverty and hard-ship could not stifle inward aspiration. The village car-penter had a mind thirsting for…
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