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"Maclise," he cried, turning to the master, "this letter," waving it in his hand, "is like a reprieve to a man on the scaffold."
Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail Ralph Connor 1898
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Forster, that all his oldest friends were Irishmen, such as Maclise,
John Forster Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879
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According to the Disraeli Project editors and where, I don't know--I'm still looking for the citation, Disraeli was trying to dissuade people from pronouncing his name as "Dis-ra-e-li"--as in, e.g., the text accompanying the famous Maclise sketch in Fraser's.
Dis vs. D'Is 2005
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Biographical study of the popular painter; more on Maclise here, with links.
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Biographical study of the popular painter; more on Maclise here, with links.
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He himself was almost girlish, with his fair complexion and light, wavy hair, so that the famous sketch by Maclise has a remarkable charm; yet nobody could really say with truth that any one of the three girls was beautiful.
Famous Affinities of History — Volume 4 Lyndon Orr
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Maclise has adopted the elaborate finish and lavish ornament, but with so much breadth, and powerful execution, that the display scarcely offends -- and he generally seeks subjects that will bear it.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S EVE, a Fairy Tale of Love. 8vo., bound in richly gilt cloth, elegantly printed, and illustrated by numerous very beautiful engravings, from designs by Maclise, Stanfield,
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Each volume will be illustrated with an appropriate vignette title; and the first will contain, in addition, a portrait, from a painting by Maclise.
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various
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He himself was almost girlish, with his fair complexion and light, wavy hair, so that the famous sketch by Maclise has a remarkable charm; yet nobody could really say with truth that any one of the three girls was beautiful.
Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr
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