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... kind aid I became acquainted one by one with all Turner's executors , and my letters of inquiry made me also known to most of the English collectors of Turner pictures , water - colour drawings , etchings , engravings , and proofs . The ...
... kind aid I became acquainted one by one with all Turner's executors , and my letters of inquiry made me also known to most of the English collectors of Turner pictures , water - colour drawings , etchings , engravings , and proofs . The ...
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... kind permission to let me examine and take notes at my leisure of the many hundred sketch - books left by Turner to the nation , and for a quiet inspection of the best of the twenty thousand sketches found in the trunks , chests , and ...
... kind permission to let me examine and take notes at my leisure of the many hundred sketch - books left by Turner to the nation , and for a quiet inspection of the best of the twenty thousand sketches found in the trunks , chests , and ...
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... kind Providence has allowed nothing of this great man to perish which might be useful to a future generation , either for incitement or for warning . It is only a Shakspeare who can afford to leave his works behind him as his only ...
... kind Providence has allowed nothing of this great man to perish which might be useful to a future generation , either for incitement or for warning . It is only a Shakspeare who can afford to leave his works behind him as his only ...
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... kind readiness with which he sent me a catalogue of his unique collection of Turner's drawings ( chiefly unpublished ) ; and to Mr. Trimmer for his original reminiscences of Lawrence , Gainsborough , & c . I have been much indebted to ...
... kind readiness with which he sent me a catalogue of his unique collection of Turner's drawings ( chiefly unpublished ) ; and to Mr. Trimmer for his original reminiscences of Lawrence , Gainsborough , & c . I have been much indebted to ...
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... hills poised ever in the golden west . But let us not think Heaven unkind in placing her genius in a Covent Garden kennel . Brave souls have broken from meaner homes than that ; kind 10 THE LADY MOTHER . Nature , too , has.
... hills poised ever in the golden west . But let us not think Heaven unkind in placing her genius in a Covent Garden kennel . Brave souls have broken from meaner homes than that ; kind 10 THE LADY MOTHER . Nature , too , has.
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Page 296 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in beauty's circle proudly gay ; The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array ! The thunder-clouds close o'er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay, Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse — friend, foe, — in one red burial blent...
Page 189 - Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town...
Page 190 - Hath rent a strange and shatter'd way Through the rude bosom of the hill, And that each naked precipice, Sable ravine, and dark abyss, Tells of the outrage still. The wildest glen, but this, can show Some touch of Nature's genial glow ; On high...
Page 190 - But here, — above, around, below, On mountain or in glen, Nor tree, nor shrub, nor plant, nor flower, Nor ought of vegetative power, The weary eye may ken.
Page 185 - Cowdenknowes,' the pastoral valley of the Leader, and the bleak wilderness of Lammermoor. To the eastward the desolate grandeur of Hume Castle breaks the horizon, as the eye travels towards the range of the Cheviot. A few miles westward, Melrose, " like some tall rock with lichens grey...
Page 316 - Thou art the garden of the world, the home Of all Art yields, and Nature can decree ; Even in thy desert, what is like to thee ? Thy very weeds are beautiful, thy waste More rich than other climes' fertility : Thy wreck a glory, and thy ruin graced With an immaculate charm which cannot be defaced.
Page 159 - But the most impressive scene, which formed the finale of the exhibition, was that representing the region of the fallen angels, with Satan arraying his troops on the banks of the Fiery Lake, and the rising of the Palace of Pandaemonium, as described by the pen of Milton.
Page 333 - Temeraire: so that these four ships formed as compact a tier as if they had been moored together, their heads lying all the same way. The lieutenants of the Victory...
Page 153 - Itspecullar , , v , , . ,.6 manifestation in of the Yorkshire series have the most heart in them, the most affectionate, simple, unwearied, serious finishing of truth. There is in them little seeking after effect, but a strong love of place, little exhibition of the artist's own powers...