"January 20" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on landscape, given January 20, February 9 and 23, 1871, he dwelt on the necessity of human and historic interest in scenery; and compared Greek "solidity and veracity" with Gothic "spirituality and mendacity," Greek chiaroscuro and tranquil activity with Gothic colour and "passionate rest." Botticelli's "Nativity" (now in ...
— The Life of John Ruskin • W. G. Collingwood
... Walling, in an article published in the "New York Times," January 20, 1920, asks a pertinent question about the revolutionary activities of the ...
— The Red Conspiracy • Joseph J. Mereto
... at the top." George Vandenhoff gave her a few lessons before she came out, and then followed her debut as Juliet, leading to her first regular engagement, which began at Barney Macaulay's Theatre, Louisville, January 20, 1876. From that time onward for thirteen years she was an actress,—never in a stock company but always as a star,—and her name became famous in Great Britain as well as America. She had eight seasons of steadily increasing prosperity on the American stage before she ...
— Shadows of the Stage • William Winter
... month this important victory was followed by a defeat. Dmitri had been weakened by his Poles being called home. Boris gathered new forces, and on January 20, 1605, the armies met again, now seventy thousand Muscovites against less than quarter their number. Yet victory would have come to Dmitri again but for treachery in his army. He charged the enemy with the same fierceness as before, bore down all before him, routed the cavalry, tore ...
— Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) - The Romance of Reality • Charles Morris
... property, Brantwood, in the Lake district, where he lived for the remainder of his life, and here he brought out in monthly parts his last work, Praeterita, an autobiography, 24 parts of which appeared, bringing down the story to 1864. Here he d. on January 20, 1900. R. was a man of noble character and generous impulses, but highly strung, irritable, and somewhat intolerant. He is one of our greatest stylists, copious, eloquent, picturesque, and highly coloured. His influence on his time was very great, at first in the department of art, in which he ...
— A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature • John W. Cousin
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