The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History, Biography, Literature, and State Progress, Volume 9Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock H.H. Metcalf, 1886 - New Hampshire |
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... thought and action purely and simply American . The influence that led others into the error of imitation , seems to have been exerted unavailingly upon his self- reliant mind . We shall search vainly if we look elsewhere than within ...
... thought and action purely and simply American . The influence that led others into the error of imitation , seems to have been exerted unavailingly upon his self- reliant mind . We shall search vainly if we look elsewhere than within ...
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... thought • and disposition of his subjects more strongly than their merely physical fea- tures , and among his principal asso- ciates excited no little appreciative comment upon this tendency . In some of his portraits of women of that ...
... thought • and disposition of his subjects more strongly than their merely physical fea- tures , and among his principal asso- ciates excited no little appreciative comment upon this tendency . In some of his portraits of women of that ...
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... thought upon the Deerfield farm , although at first sight forming an hiatus in his career , was really its most pregnant period , and that without it the Fuller who is now so much admired might have been lost to us , and the spirit that ...
... thought upon the Deerfield farm , although at first sight forming an hiatus in his career , was really its most pregnant period , and that without it the Fuller who is now so much admired might have been lost to us , and the spirit that ...
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... thought appeared together upon the canvas , giving a double grace and power . The process was subtle , and not to be described clearly even by the painter himself , who found his work so largely a matter of inspiration that he was never ...
... thought appeared together upon the canvas , giving a double grace and power . The process was subtle , and not to be described clearly even by the painter himself , who found his work so largely a matter of inspiration that he was never ...
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... thought as in figure , he moved slowly and in long waves , and although of marked quickness in intuition , he seemed to distrust this quality in him- self until he had proved it by reason . He received his motive as by a spark quicker ...
... thought as in figure , he moved slowly and in long waves , and although of marked quickness in intuition , he seemed to distrust this quality in him- self until he had proved it by reason . He received his motive as by a spark quicker ...
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