Works worth framing

Usage examples of masterpieces.

Drawings from masterpieces are made and published for the edification of amateurs.

As it is, I have had some trouble to conceal from my friends, by the help of dried fruits or the contents of a glass sipped slowly, that the masterpieces of my chefs were made more for them than for me, and that my interest in these courses ended before theirs.

Paul Jones spinning in his grave, and the boots were masterpieces of dully gleaming leather.

The impassioned patience of his ingenious observations delights me as much as the masterpieces of art.

All the masterpieces that endure and become a part of our lives are characterized by it.

These masterpieces exist from many periods and in many languages, and they all have qualities in common which have insured their persistence.

What are the qualities common to all the masterpieces of literature, or, let us say, to those that have endured in spite of imperfections and local provincialisms?

A third quality common to all masterpieces is what we call charm, a matter more or less of style, and which may be defined as the agreeable personality of the writer.

We need not in any company be ashamed if we have not read it all, especially if we are ashamed that, considering the time at our disposal, we have not made the acquaintance of the great and small masterpieces of literature.

In proof of this we have only to refer to the masterpieces of fiction which the world cherishes and loves to recur to.

A great many small pictures covered the walls of the boudoir, and they were all masterpieces in the same style as the engravings.

Italy has little to envy in other literatures, and has numerous masterpieces, which are unequalled the whole world over.