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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

  • Forster, that all his oldest friends were Irishmen, such as Maclise,

    John Forster Percy Hethrington Fitzgerald 1879

  • 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

  • Biographical study of the popular painter; more on Maclise here, with links.

    The Little Professor: 2004

  • Biographical study of the popular painter; more on Maclise here, with links.

    This Week's Acquisitions 2004

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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,

    Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 Various

  • 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

  • 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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