"Portrayer" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... find that Omar Khayyam is the—ah—generally accepted version of the poet's name," said the portrayer of Lord Finchley, adding beneath his ...
— The Little Warrior - (U.K. Title: Jill the Reckless) • P. G. Wodehouse
... nature: on this the poet builds; he calls up from their hidden abysses that dread of the unknown, that presage of a dark side of nature, and a world of spirits, which philosophy now imagines it has altogether exploded. In this manner he is in some degree both the portrayer and the philosopher of superstition; that is, not the philosopher who denies and turns it into ridicule, but, what is still more difficult, who distinctly exhibits its origin in apparently irrational ...
— Lectures on Dramatic Art - and Literature • August Wilhelm Schlegel trans John Black
... Mr. Moore, with its tender sentiment, shrewd philosophy, poetic feeling and exquisite humor gave the author his reputation as a portrayer of southern life and character. 12mo. 332 pages. Illustrated. ...
— Dulcibel - A Tale of Old Salem • Henry Peterson
... only as a portrayer of public wrongs that we are indebted to our friend. What reflecting mind can contemplate some of those characters without being made more kind-hearted and charitable? Descend with him into the very sink of vice—contemplate the mistress of a robber—the victim of a murderer—disgraced ...
— Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z • Various
... "monarchical and religious" enormities; while the Marquis d'Esgrignon, on the other hand, found heresies and revolutionary doctrines in every issue. No matter to what extremes the organs of this or that opinion may go, they will never go quite far enough to please the purists on their own side; even as the portrayer of this magnificent personage is pretty certain to be accused of exaggeration, whereas he has done his best to soften down some of the cruder tones and dim the more startling tints ...
— The Jealousies of a Country Town • Honore de Balzac |
