by the hand through the mazes of the merry dance
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cover scan / hand
John Burnet. The progress of a painter in the nineteenth century. 2 vols. [in 1] . London, 1854
Bodleian copy, digitized September 7, 2006
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in his hand the model of a cow’s head
in his hand a couple of large burdock leaves
some bank-notes in his hand
the destructive hand of careless neglect
when palette and brushes are not at hand
and the house on the right-hand side
at the right hand, as you see
is now tenanted by a boat-builder
and as I have on my left hand
[ a ] more practised hand would give a few finishing touches
foxiness on one hand, and rawness on the other
ramification of the branches
by the right hand and lifted
try my hand
by the hand, exclaiming
by the hand, and introduced
by the hand, said
the hand under the eye
as they come to hand. Of form
off his hand into a fire
into his hand, examining it
taking his own sketch-book in his hand
in his hand, as a text
of the hand, and telling
pretensions of off-hand dexterity
by the hand, he resumed
by the hand, alleging
by the hand through the mazes of the merry dance
kissed the extended hand
taking him by the hand (on Don Saltero’s feats of swimming)
her scrutinizing eye alternatively from his hand to his face
to discover those random off-hand dashes
of his picture now in hand
oblique lines
a chequered life
a species of fungus from the water-cask
in his hand. after reading
in his hand
ignorant hand
I long to have the etching-needle in my hand
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of perhaps two-thirds of the “hand” phrases in the volume.
tags:
pretensions of off-hand dexterity; chequered life; fortune-telling; hands; obliquities
John Burnet, The Progress of a Painter (1854)