The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
Arles is certainly one of the most interesting towns I have ever seen, whether viewed as a place remarkable for the objects of antiquity it contains, or for the primitive manners of its inhabitants and its picturesque appearance.
Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance.
An experienced, industrious, ambitious, and often quite picturesque liar.
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
Pictures must not be too picturesque.
Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
We had a man as dashing as Sheridan, as unique and picturesque as the slow-moving, taciturn Grant, as charming as Jackson, as witty as old Billy Sherman, as brave as Paul Jones.
I live in my house as I live inside my skin: I know more beautiful, more ample, more sturdy and more picturesque skins: but it would seem to me unnatural to exchange them for mine.
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
No author, without a trial, can conceive of the difficulty of writing a romance about a country where there is no shadow, no antiquity, no mystery, no picturesque and gloomy wrong, nor anything but a commonplace prosperity, in broad and simple daylight, as is happily the case with my dear native land.
Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
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