Word: amalgamation
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Dates: during 1894-1894
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...purposes of poetry our language has gained by the infusion of Latin. It has become a kind of Corinthian metal richer than any one of its compounds taken by itself or all of them together before they have been fused into the glowing amalgam. In the experiments made for casting Big Ben, the great bell for the Westminster tower, it has been found that the superstition that it was the presence of silver in larger proportion which gave the remarkable sweetness of tone to certain of the old bells had no foundation in fact. It was the skilful proportions with...
...most rapid worker of the four, and it is not to be expected that all his work should be up to his highest standard, which was scarcely inferior to Titian. He combined the early line work of Florence with the vivid coloring of Venice and produced an admirable amalgam. Through all his many paintings he shows great invention and startling originality of conception. Throughout the work of Verrezana there is an underlying decorative motive. In pictures brilliant in color and elaborate in decoration, he portrays pomp and magnificence at its highest point, but with nothing trivial about it. He, Gorgona...