Thornicrofts Model

Author : Mrs. Alfred W. Hunt
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267211081
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Thornicroft's Model (Classic Reprint) written by Mrs. Alfred W. Hunt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Thornicroft's Model And yet he said it with regret, for it was a long-cherished subject. The picture he saw in his mind was this I - phigenia robed in saffron, standing by the altar ready crowned for death - standing, as it were, alone; but serried ranges of shields and a thorny hedge of bristling spears circling around behind her showed she was hemmed in by hard, cruel, impatient men, who thought it right that she should die. From these her eyes were turned away to the masts of the fleet in the narrow strait below, one or two of which were just visible in one corner. The foreground was a fragment of Diana's flowery mead, with the flowers all bruised and crushed by the armed host who had come to see the maiden die - as the flower of her young life was so soon to be crushed also. He had not brought in Calchas, from a feeling of repulsion - only a part of his robe was seen on the left side, and the point of a sharp sword. All this was delicately outlined on the canvas, but the idea. Was pressing for further utterance, and where was he to find an Iphigenia? He thought wistfully of Italy, where even yet, in some parts, every peasant carrying her jar of water on her head, or roused from her work in the fields, stands to watch the passing stranger with the mien of an empress; some of these, seen by him perhaps just for one moment from the window of a railway carriage in its swift passage through their country, had yet stamped their pictures On his brain by mere force of dignity and beauty. But the H-less, bechignoned, bewhaleboned young persons who serve as models in London were of no more use to him than a dustman would be as a model of Apollo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.