Edward Hopper paintings

Edward Hopper paintings
Edgar Degas paintings
Emile Munier paintings
Edwin Lord Weeks paintings
At ten in the morning, or some minutes later, the first day of the new year, most illustrious-"
"Let the prisoner go free-it is the king's will!"
Another blush followed this unregal outburst, and he covered his indecorum as well as he could by adding:
"It enrageth me that a man should be hanged upon such idle, hare-brained evidence!" A low buzz of admiration swept through the assemblage. It was not admiration of the decree that had been delivered by Tom, for the propriety or expediency of pardoning a convicted poisoner was a thing which few there would have felt justified in either admitting or admiring-no, the admiration was for the intelligence and spirit which Tom had displayed. Some of the low-voiced remarks were to this effect:
"This is no mad king-he hath his wits sound."
"How sanely he put his questions-how like his former natural self was this abrupt, imperious disposal of the matter!"
"God be thanked his infirmity is spent! This is no weakling, but a king. He hath borne himself like to his own father."