The Portrait

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NOTES

Speak on or write an essay about your assessment of the story and your impressions of it.

The message of the story

The theme of the story

Which of the following phrases could be said to be

Explain what the implication of the following is.

1. The title of the story. 2. "Mebbe," said Skimpy, "you've thought Ah'm yellow, eh?" (18) 3. "... the eyes of Skimpy were the eyes of the crucified". (20) 4. "... the first smile for years breaking like Eastertide over Skimpy's hairless face". (20)

A man is what life makes him.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Like cures like.

There is something good in every man.

He that respects not is not respected.

We can treat a man with a dose of his own medicine.

To err is human, to forgive divine.

Rembrandt - 1606-1669, well-known Dutch painter Sir Joshua Reynolds - 1723-1792, well-known English painter a Manor House - the house of the lord of a manor that is of an estate administered as a unit

Longhi - 1702-1785, well-known Italian portrait-painter morbidezza - the delicate, subtle and lifelike rendering of flesh in painting, sculpture or engraving

Rosalba - 1675-1757, Italian portrait and miniature painter Tiepolo - 1696-1770, a Venetian painter

Anne Boleyn - about 1507-1536, second wife of Henry VIII of England, mother of Queen Elizabeth

Nell Gwynn - 1650-1687, English actress, mistress of Charles II Duke of Wellington - 1769-1852, First Duke, known as The Iron Duke

Galuppi - 1706-1785, Italian composer Misericordia - Italian bural society, rendering service to all Piccinni - 1728-1800, Italian musician and composer, known as the rival of Gltik

Santa Maria - a well-known church in Venice Porpora - 1686-1768, Italian composer and singing teacher Tartini - 1692-1770, Italian composer and violinist, created the well-known "The Devil's Sonata"

Ridotto - the hall where a musical and dancing entertainment is given

Maria-Theresa - 1717-1780, wife of Emperor Francis I, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia

Pantaloon - a traditional character in Italian comedy, also the patron saint of Venice

Pulcinello - or Punchinello, a comic character in Italian burles­que or puppet show, same as the English Punch Punch - Панч (Петрушка)

саrа arnica - ит. дорогой друг

cicisbeo (pi cicisbei) - ит. кавалер, постоянный спутник да­мы

Lido - an Italian island in the Adriatic South East of Venice, fashionable seaside resort

Guardi - 1712-1793, Venetian painter known for his scenes of Venice