10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNPICTURESQUE»
Discover the use of
unpicturesque in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
unpicturesque and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Romantic Poetry: Recent Revisionary Criticism
UNPICTURESQUE. AT. TINTERN. ABBEY. We are all familiar with the rhetoric of
interconnection in the first paragraph, most fully analyzed by Colin Clarke,3 by
which Wordsworth connects past to present, spirit to matter, man to nature, and ...
Karl Kroeber, Gene W. Ruoff, 1993
2
The Foreign Quarterly Review
But this modern progress, on the material side, is full of petty details, sordid,
unpicturesque, vulgar. What should be purely shining wonders are dulled by the
commonest associations of business; miracles are performed, not as such, but in
the ...
3
The North American Review
At all events, we had not much fatigue of this kind to complain of, for take it all in
all, a more unpicturesque country is hardly to be found anywhere.' Take it all in all
! The Captain, as appears by the line on his map, as well as from his book, saw ...
4
THE PENNY MAGAZINE OF THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF ...
... which is sometimes ornamented with pieces of looking-glass, the whole
equipage having an exceedingly odd but not unpicturesque appearance. Other
carts are sometimes drawn by yoked oxen. Some of the peasants who bring
vegetables ...
5
America's England: Antebellum Literature and Atlantic ...
But the rustic types sometimes included in these works—farmers, shepherds,
rural workers—presented problems for picturesque theorists like Gilpin, who
regarded obviously cultivated land as potentially unpicturesque unless balanced
...
6
Angels of Art: Women and Art in American Society, 1876-1914
America was full of potential subjects, Isham continued, but the wrong kind, ones
that students in European ateliers had been trained to find unpicturesque and
uninteresting. Large factories, for example, were replacing simple industries and
...
7
Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful ...
Was it not said in the earlier period of the railroads that they were agents of a very
unpicturesque character, and matter-of-fact tendencies ? Railroads
unpicturesque ! Is it possible he who held such a notion ever travelled five miles
upon one of ...
8
A Selection of Curious Articles from the Gentleman's Magazine
Speaking of Raphael, Mr. Webb says, " The most unpicturesque action
composed by him, seems to have been destined for paint," &c. Here, and
elsewhere, such lavish encomiums seem without reason or truth. How
contradictory to the above ...
9
The Cambridge Companion to Mary Shelley
But the disruptive appearance of the man in “unpicturesque” costume, jolts the
audience out ofthe suspension of disbelief, out ofthe paralysis ofthought, and into
the more uncertain, open space of the theatre itself, in which thinking can resume
.
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The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane].
A trellis mantled over with the leaves and blossoms of various "climbers" is hardly
a more artificial object than a wall clad with ivy, which has certainly never been
deemed unpicturesque. Whatever be the degree of ornamental character ...
John George Cochrane, 1836
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNPICTURESQUE»
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unpicturesque is used in the context of the following news items.
This Day in Jewish History / Mark Twain visits the Holy Land and is …
The hills are barren, they are dull of color, they are unpicturesque in shape. The valleys are unsightly deserts fringed with a feeble vegetation that has an ... «Haaretz, Jul 15»
Poorhouses and midnight mass: What Christmas was like in 1901 …
“Unpicturesque, bare, draughty and comfortless, as too many of our modern Irish churches are, they hold unquestionably the most reverent and deeply devout ... «thejournal.ie, Dec 14»
A garden of love should outgrow a fit of pique, Sir Roy
... mingled with the sheer irritation of being turned down by an outfit whose acquisitions include an unpicturesque row of Birmingham back-to-backs is the pain of ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 14»
Road trip: Ferrari F12, Lambo Aventador and Aston Vanquish do …
... a monster logjam on a particularly unpicturesque section of Midlands motorway. A beauty, this one was: a two-hour, inch-by-inch crawl down the outside lane, ... «Top Gear, May 14»
A Question Of Biggitude: What's The Largest Creature On Earth?
The other biggest living thing is also in America, in Oregon. It's so unpicturesque, I couldn't find a good photo of it because it lives almost entirely underground. «NPR, May 14»
Bold expressions of 'unpicturesque' land on display at the …
Group of Seven founding member Harris (1885-1970) often chose to paint what Ian Thom, Vancouver Art Gallery senior curator-historical, calls “unpicturesque” ... «The Globe and Mail, Feb 14»
Britain's tourist economy
Even in grimy Stockton-on-Tees, the number of jobs went up by 103%, and in rather unpicturesque Barking and Dagenham in London by 95%. In part, this rather ... «The Economist, Nov 13»
Restaurant review: Prima Donna, London
On the other, an entirely unpicturesque vista need not diminish the enjoyment of a meal. This was my keynote finding from dinner at Prima Donna in Brixton ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 13»
The Art Of Being A Bohemian
Some folks bohême in studios, and have their food brought in from an unpicturesque but convenient delicatessen shop. In such cases the great thing is to eat it ... «Vanity Fair, Sep 13»
How LA Almost Got a Vermeer
Their subjects are often Walker Evans slices of life, unpicturesque and without obvious meaning. De Hooch, working the same territory, more often has a moral, ... «ARTINFO, Feb 13»
