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... painter whose genius he had done so much to illustrate . In answer to my letter of inquiry , Mr. Ruskin replied that he had no intention of writing a life of Turner , but that he should much rejoice in my doing so , and would give me ...
... painter whose genius he had done so much to illustrate . In answer to my letter of inquiry , Mr. Ruskin replied that he had no intention of writing a life of Turner , but that he should much rejoice in my doing so , and would give me ...
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... painter not only England , but the world , ever has and perhaps ever will produce . WALTER THORNBURY . P.S. In a ... Painters , " volumes which , although I often differ from them , seem to me monu- ments of a genius as versatile and ...
... painter not only England , but the world , ever has and perhaps ever will produce . WALTER THORNBURY . P.S. In a ... Painters , " volumes which , although I often differ from them , seem to me monu- ments of a genius as versatile and ...
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... PAINTER . LOVE AND AMBITION 26 . CHAPTER III . CHAPTER IV . 70 CHAPTER V. TURNER'S CONTEMPORARIES IN WATER AND OIL 78 CHAPTER VI . TURNER AND GIRTIN AT DR . MUNRO'S • CHAPTER VII . 91 TURNER'S FRIENDLY RIVAL , GIRTIN • · · 101 CHAPTER ...
... PAINTER . LOVE AND AMBITION 26 . CHAPTER III . CHAPTER IV . 70 CHAPTER V. TURNER'S CONTEMPORARIES IN WATER AND OIL 78 CHAPTER VI . TURNER AND GIRTIN AT DR . MUNRO'S • CHAPTER VII . 91 TURNER'S FRIENDLY RIVAL , GIRTIN • · · 101 CHAPTER ...
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... painter when living , instantly gave me courteously what information they could . From Turner's friends ( all of whom truly loved his memory ) I met with kind- ness and consideration . They kept nothing from me -they ransacked their ...
... painter when living , instantly gave me courteously what information they could . From Turner's friends ( all of whom truly loved his memory ) I met with kind- ness and consideration . They kept nothing from me -they ransacked their ...
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... painter not only England , but the world , ever has and perhaps ever will produce . WALTER THORNBURY . P.S. In a ... Painters , " volumes which , although I often differ from them , seem to me monu- ments of a genius as versatile and ...
... painter not only England , but the world , ever has and perhaps ever will produce . WALTER THORNBURY . P.S. In a ... Painters , " volumes which , although I often differ from them , seem to me monu- ments of a genius as versatile and ...
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Page 272 - 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 165 - 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 166 - 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 166 - 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 161 - 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 292 - 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 135 - 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 309 - 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 129 - 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...