Word: painting
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Could but paint the dreamy darkness...
...Nearly every student who has elected this course feels that this method of teaching is not a very successful one. To memorize these names and properties is a useless task unless the objects to which they belong can be examined. Would he who had never seen a beautiful landscape paint one as well as he who had? Is it not foolish to attempt a study of the anatomy of animals without specimens? If we have given any mineral or rock, can we remember its color or its degree of hardness better by reading about it, or by actually seeing...
...subject is boldly and originally treated. We recognize the right of literary ladies and gentlemen, founded on custom, to paint us very black indeed; but we are used to being saved at the eleventh hour, and demand it as a right. We cannot, therefore, commend this poem for its sentiment, although the execution is eminently artistic...
...vain for me to strive to paint...