I confess that when first I made acquaintance with Charles Strickland I never for a moment discerned that there was in him anything out of the ordinary.
①Yet now few will be found to deny his greatness. ②I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; ③that is a quality which belongs to the pla
①The Prime Minister out of office is seen, too often, to have been but a pompous rhetorician, and the General without an army is but the tame hero of a market town. ②The greatness of Charles Stricklan
①It may be that you do not like his art, but at all events you can hardly refuse it the tribute of your interest.② He disturbs and arrests. ③The time has passed when he was an object of ridicule, and
①It is still possible to discuss his place in art, ②and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than the disparagement of his detractors; ③but one thing can never be doubtful, and
①I suppose Velasquez was a better painter than El Greco, but custom stales one's admiration for him: ②the Cretan, sensual and tragic, proffers the mystery of his soul like a standing sacrifice. ③The a
