10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AIRDRAWN»
Discover the use of
airdrawn in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
airdrawn and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Art of Authorial Presence: Hawthorne's Provincial Tales
Thus my airdrawn pictures will be set in frames perhaps more valuable than the
pictures themselves" (2:461; T&S, 177). The prologue concludes with a partially
tongue-in-cheek statement that he is writing the book "for the sake of its moral.
Gary Richard Thompson, 1993
James Branch Cabell. animate nature, he sometimes thought, might be a divine
experiment in vers libre. . . . But neither the justice of Kennaston's airdrawn
surmises, nor their wildness, matters; the point is that they made of him a
vestryman ...
James Branch Cabell, 2001
3
The Lives of the Most Eminent British Painters and Sculptors
He was now, by his that even Titian could no longer please him — he looked with
scorn upon all works below his own airdrawn standard of excellence, and
regarded and addressed with sarcastic displeasure all " whose gods were not his
...
4
Waverley Novels: Redgauntlet ; [1]
Redgauntlet ; [1] Walter Scott. Themis his bow, and declined the honour of
following her farther. You laugh at me for my airdrawn castles; but confess, have
they not surer footing, in general, than two words spoken by such a man as
Herries?
5
A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary and Expositor of the ...
v. a. to expose to the air Airbladder. are'blad—dl'ir. s. a bladder filled with air
Airbuilt, are-hilt. a. built in the air Airdrawn, are'drfiwn. a. painted in air Airer, are'i'
ir. s. he that exposes to the air Air-hole, are'hole. s. a hole to admit air Airiness, ...
... root and branch ; and then as the Al- chymists professed to do with organic
substances in general, distil you an ' Astral Spirit' from the ashes, which was the
very image of the old burnt article, its airdrawn counterpart, ' JOHN STERLING.
7
Scenes from Shakespeare
... words: "You lack the season of all natures, sleep" (III, iv, 140). It should be
noted that she does not see the ghost or hear the voice, and that she skeptically
dismisses the airdrawn dagger as a subjective phenomenon: "the very painting ...
Lady Macbeth is not a woman to start at shadows; she mocks at airdrawn
daggers; she sees no imagined spectres rise from the tomb to appal or accuse
her. The towering bravery of her mind disdains the visionary terrors which haunt
her ...
9
The Human Intellect: with an Introduction Upon Psychology ...
We think an airdrawn dagger will pierce us to the heart. We believe that the spirit
which our distracted phantusy conjures into being, has veritable flesh and bones.
But mistakes like these, so far from proving that what we know has no existence ...
The writer is certainly a brave man—I am satisfied of that; for he distinctly
Mznnounces it, where he speaks of his willingness to “feel an assassin's poinard
in his breast,” rather than “ see the airdrawn dagger ofa guilty imagination;" which
, ...
