The life of J.M.W. Turner, Volume 1 |
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... tree , bird , sky , river , seemed but as so many voices uniting in one calm , yet unceasing chorus of gratitude and joy to God their Creator . We must imagine the hairdresser's son thrown , dazed , confused , and tearful with memories ...
... tree , bird , sky , river , seemed but as so many voices uniting in one calm , yet unceasing chorus of gratitude and joy to God their Creator . We must imagine the hairdresser's son thrown , dazed , confused , and tearful with memories ...
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... trees and blackbirds in fly - leaves of " Cæsars " and " Tele- machuses . " Long afterwards old school - fellows of Turner's used to say , that his first attempts at art had been drawings of birds and flowers and trees from the school ...
... trees and blackbirds in fly - leaves of " Cæsars " and " Tele- machuses . " Long afterwards old school - fellows of Turner's used to say , that his first attempts at art had been drawings of birds and flowers and trees from the school ...
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... trees . He is at once sent , let us suppose , at eleven or twelve ( for tradition is vague about the date ) , to the Soho academy , where now , I presume , serene and happy , he draws flowers , & c . , after the tambour- frame manner ...
... trees . He is at once sent , let us suppose , at eleven or twelve ( for tradition is vague about the date ) , to the Soho academy , where now , I presume , serene and happy , he draws flowers , & c . , after the tambour- frame manner ...
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... artist was at this time , I have no doubt , recklessly indiffer- ent , as he leant over Sandby's and Hearne's castles , trees , and abbeys , drew barges and boats , and worked 30 POETRY OF LONDON . hard and unconsciously to learn.
... artist was at this time , I have no doubt , recklessly indiffer- ent , as he leant over Sandby's and Hearne's castles , trees , and abbeys , drew barges and boats , and worked 30 POETRY OF LONDON . hard and unconsciously to learn.
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... trees of Kew , is not aware of the fact that King George's poor broken - hearted sister , Queen Matilda of Denmark , has just died , unpitied and alone . He , more probably , is all agog about the arrival of Captain Cook at Portsmouth ...
... trees of Kew , is not aware of the fact that King George's poor broken - hearted sister , Queen Matilda of Denmark , has just died , unpitied and alone . He , more probably , is all agog about the arrival of Captain Cook at Portsmouth ...
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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...