 People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed — a knife — a purse — and a dark lane. Design, gentlemen, grouping, light and shade, poetry, sentiment, are now deemed indispensable...  Blackwood's Magazine - Seite 1921827Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Thomas De Quincey, David Masson - 1897 - 464 Seiten
...ago, when the art was little understood, and few great models had been exhibited ; but in this age, when masterpieces of excellence have been executed...corresponding improvement. Practice and theory must advance jiari passu. People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1898 - 910 Seiten
...ago, when the art was little understood and few great models had been exhibited ; but in this age, when masterpieces of excellence have been executed...corresponding improvement. Practice and theory must advance pari passu. People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two... | |
 | 1900 - 426 Seiten
...the relationship, it is only necessary to quote a passage from De Quincey's eulogy of murder : — " People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed — a knife — a purse — and a dark lane.... | |
 | John Scott Clark - 1905 - 924 Seiten
...ago, when the art was little understood and few great models had been exhibited ; but in this age, when masterpieces of excellence have been executed...improvement. Practice and theory must advance part passit. People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1911 - 428 Seiten
...ago, when the art was little understood, and few great models had been exhibited; but in this age, when masterpieces of excellence have been executed...corresponding improvement. Practice and theory must advance pari passu. People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two... | |
 | Carolyn Wells - 1913 - 372 Seiten
...is yet sound philosophy, is marred by separation from its context. But a few passages may be given: "People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed — a knife — a purse— and a dark lane. Design,... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1923 - 364 Seiten
...ago, when the art was little understood, and few great models had been exhibited; but in this age, when masterpieces of excellence ^ have been executed...see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed — a knife — a purse — and a dark lane.... | |
 | John G. Cawelti - 1976 - 344 Seiten
...accomplishment in the present day that it ought to receive an adequately serious criticism: in this age, when masterpieces of excellence have been executed...corresponding improvement, practice and theory must advance pari passu. People begin to see that something more goes to the completion of a fine murder than two... | |
 | Hal Gladfelder - 2001 - 308 Seiten
...Considered as One of the Fine Arts. There he noted a growing sophistication on the part of readers: "People begin to see that something more goes to the composition of a fine murder than two blockheads to kill and be killed, a knife, a purse, and a dark lane."26 But the... | |
 | Val McDermid - 2007 - 525 Seiten
...ago, when the art was little understood, and few great models had been exhibited; but in this age, when masterpieces of excellence have been executed...look for something of a corresponding improvement. Tony Hill tucked his hands behind his head and stared up at the ceiling. There was a fine web of cracks... | |
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