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This year the Summer School will be hosted at the University of Vermont in picturesque, mountainous Burlington, Vermont, USA, from June 21 – July 9, 2010. Meathead Goldwyn: Crispy Cornell Chicken: An Upstate New York Classic "Sadda'l-Aktár," a term picturesque enough to be preserved in English.īut in picturesque Ithaca, NY, where Cornell is located, about six hours from Manhattan, he is best remembered for Cornell Chicken, and there is nothing odd or artificial about his recipe. In all this I cannot too strongly mark the utter absence of any trace of the feeling for what we call the picturesque, and the constant dwelling of the writer's mind on what was available, pleasant, or useful: his ideas respecting all landscape being not uncharacteristially summed, finally, by Pallas herself when, meeting

In Two Volumes, Volume II.ĭamn it, I took him to see a glassworks the other day thought it would appeal to his sense of what you call the picturesque but, Lord bless me, he asked how much the blowers were paid and wanted me to raise their pay on the spot.įor a week or two it seemed that a cottage might drop in their way but it happened to be what you call picturesque, and a rich man snapped it up. Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. adjective suggesting or suitable for a picture pretty as a pictureĪll the pleasure which the people of the nineteenth century take in art, is in pictures, sculpture, minor objects of virtù, or mediæval architecture, which we enjoy under the term picturesque: no pleasure is taken anywhere in modern buildings, and we find all men of true feeling delighting to escape out of modern cities into natural scenery: hence, as I shall hereafter show, that peculiar love of landscape, which is characteristic of the age.Īt present this forms one of the very few objects to which the term picturesque may properly be applied, existing in the States and, linked as it is with the recollections of its gallant founders, I confess it laid strong hold of my imagination, absorbing my eyes and interest as long as I could keep it in view.scenicįrom WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. adjective Resembling or worthy of a picture or painting having the qualities of a picture or painting.adjective Forming, or fitted to form, a good or pleasing picture representing with the clearness or ideal beauty appropriate to a picture expressing that peculiar kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture, natural or artificial graphic vividįrom Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.Strikingly graphic or vivid abounding or diversified with striking and vivid imagery: as, picturesque language.įrom the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.Picture-like possessing notably original and pleasing qualities such as would be effective in a picture forming or fitted to form an interesting or striking picture, as a mountain waterfall, or a pine-covered headland, or a gay costume amid appropriate surroundings.

adjective Strikingly expressive or vivid.adjective Striking or interesting in an unusual way irregularly or quaintly attractive.adjective Of, suggesting, or suitable for a picture.It was three storeys high, of proportions not vast, though considerable: a gentleman's manor-house, not a nobleman's seat: battlements round the top gave it a picturesque look.From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. (The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) It was a bird's-eye view of creation, as interpreted by science, which, in language always clear and sometimes picturesque, he unfolded before us. I like a fine prospect, but not on picturesque principles.įor the first time in my life I experienced the desire to murder-“saw red,” as some of our picturesque writers phrase it. (Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)īut now she should not know what was picturesque when she saw it. The course of the Rhine below Mainz becomes much more picturesque.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) In your picturesque account of the matter, which I read with great interest some months later, you assert that the wall was sheer. The picturesque would be spoilt by admitting a fourth. It was a lovely drive, along winding roads rich in the picturesque scenes that delight beauty-loving eyes. They are very picturesque, but do not look prepossessing.