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... whole edifice was invested with the solemn duskiness of evening . Silent , lonely and sublime , it seemed to stand the sovereign of the scene , and to frown defiance on all who dared to invade its solitary reign . As the twilight ...
... whole edifice was invested with the solemn duskiness of evening . Silent , lonely and sublime , it seemed to stand the sovereign of the scene , and to frown defiance on all who dared to invade its solitary reign . As the twilight ...
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... whole history of Christianity shows that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power , than of being crushed by its opposition . ' On the whole Southey took a gloomy view of the prospects of society ...
... whole history of Christianity shows that she is in far greater danger of being corrupted by the alliance of power , than of being crushed by its opposition . ' On the whole Southey took a gloomy view of the prospects of society ...
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... whole was enveloped in a vaporous mystery . Figures were often not conceived in the round , but merely suggested as parts of a coherent whole . Turner had studied Titian , Poussin , Claude and Ruysdael ( he was less im- pressed by ...
... whole was enveloped in a vaporous mystery . Figures were often not conceived in the round , but merely suggested as parts of a coherent whole . Turner had studied Titian , Poussin , Claude and Ruysdael ( he was less im- pressed by ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | 6 |
List of Illustrations | 7 |
The Age of Romanticism | 9 |
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