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
①To pursue his secret has something of the fascination of a detective story. ②It is a riddle which shares with the universe the merit of having no answer. ③The most insignificant of Strickland's works
①It was not till four years after Strickland's death that Maurice Huret wrote that article in the Mercure de France ②which rescued the unknown painter from oblivion and blazed the trail which succeedi
①and it was impossible not to be impressed by the claims he made; ②they seemed extravagant; but later judgments have confirmed his estimate, ③and the reputation of Charles Strickland is now firmly est
①I cannot agree with the painters who claim superciliously ②that the layman can understand nothing of painting, ③and that he can best show his appreciation of their works by silence and a cheque-book.
①But I will allow that the critic who has not a practical knowledge of technique is seldom able to say anything on the subject of real value, ②and my ignorance of painting is extreme. ③Fortunately, th
①Maurice Huret in his famous article gave an outline of Charles Strickland's life which was well calculated to whet the appetites of the inquiring. ②With his disinterested passion for art, he had a re
①And when such as had come in contact with Strickland in the past,②writers who had known him in London, painters who had met him in the cafes of Montmartre, ③discovered to their amazement that where t
①The faculty for myth is innate in the human race. ②It seizes with avidity upon any incidents, surprising or mysterious, in the career of those who have at all distinguished themselves from their fell
