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... believe that these qualities will always secure him that admi- ration which he deserves , that there will be many unsophisticated and honest minds not the most ordinary facts of nature , for we b2 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . xix.
... believe that these qualities will always secure him that admi- ration which he deserves , that there will be many unsophisticated and honest minds not the most ordinary facts of nature , for we b2 PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION . xix.
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... believe , deep - seated in the system of ancient landscape art ; it consists , in a word , in the painter's taking upon him to modify God's works at his pleasure , casting the shadow of himself on all he sees , constituting himself ...
... believe , deep - seated in the system of ancient landscape art ; it consists , in a word , in the painter's taking upon him to modify God's works at his pleasure , casting the shadow of himself on all he sees , constituting himself ...
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... believe , knew and felt more of the noble landscape character of his country than any whose works have come down to us , except Homer . The individuality and distinctness of conception , the visible cloud character which every word of ...
... believe , knew and felt more of the noble landscape character of his country than any whose works have come down to us , except Homer . The individuality and distinctness of conception , the visible cloud character which every word of ...
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... believe , never attain the intense purity of blue with which Titian has gifted his flower . But the master does not aim at the particular colour of individual blossoms ; he seizes the type of all , and gives it with the utmost purity ...
... believe , never attain the intense purity of blue with which Titian has gifted his flower . But the master does not aim at the particular colour of individual blossoms ; he seizes the type of all , and gives it with the utmost purity ...
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... believe the critics of his last year's Canute had , for once , sense enough to decide . Again , it does not follow that , because such accurate knowledge is necessary to the painter , it should constitute the painter ; nor that such ...
... believe the critics of his last year's Canute had , for once , sense enough to decide . Again , it does not follow that , because such accurate knowledge is necessary to the painter , it should constitute the painter ; nor that such ...
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Academy pictures aërial Alps altogether appears architecture artist beauty blue boughs Canaletto CHAPTER character chiaroscuro Claude clouds colour Copley Fielding curves Cuyp dark degree delicate distance distinct drawing Dulwich edge effect engraver especially evidence execution expression exquisite false falsehood farther feeling foliage foreground Gallery Gentile Bellini Giorgione give given grey ground hills impossible impression instance Italy J. M. W. Turner kind knowledge landscape art landscape painters less light and shade lines look mass means mind mist modern mountain nature never Nicholas Poussin objects observed old masters outline painting particular peculiar perception perfect picture pleasure Poussin principles pure qualities racter rain-cloud receive reflection rendered respect Rivers of France rock seen shadow space sublime sunshine surface thing thought tint tion Titian tone touch transparent trees Turner vapour Venice vignette visible waves whole
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Página 420 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Página 336 - I am afraid my uncle will think himself justified by them on this occasion, when he asserts, that it is one of the most difficult things in the world to put a woman right, when she sets out wrong.
Página 202 - ... in the clash of the hail, nor the drift of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed. God is not in the earthquake, nor in the fire, but in the still, small voice.
Página xxxvii - ... moment withdrawn from the sounds and motion of the living world, and sent forth alone into this wild and wasted plain. The earth yields and crumbles beneath his foot, tread he never so lightly, for its substance is white, hollow, and carious, like the dusty wreck of the bones of men. The long knotted grass waves and tosses feebly in the evening wind, and the shadows of its motion shake feverishly along the banks of ruin that lift themselves to the sunlight ; hillocks of mouldering earth heave...
Página 202 - And yet we never attend to it ; we never make it a subject of thought, but as it has to do with our animal sensations ; we look upon all by which it speaks to us more clearly than to brutes, upon all which bears witness to the intention of the Supreme, that we are to receive more from the covering vault than the light and the dew which we share with the weed and the worm, only as a succession of meaningless and monotonous accidents, too common and too vain to be worthy of a moment of watchfulness...
Página 50 - A sufficient impulse there may be on the organ; but it not reaching the observation of the mind, there follows no perception: and though the motion that uses to produce the idea of sound be made in the ear, yet no sound is heard.
Página 259 - And then you shall hear the fainting tempest die in the hollow of the night, and you shall see a green halo kindling on the summit of the eastern hills, brighter — brighter yet, till the large white circle of the slow moon is lifted up among the barred clouds, step by step, line by line; star after star she quenches with her kindling light, setting in their stead an army of pale, penetrable, fleecy wreaths in the heaven, to give light upon the earth, which move together, hand in hand, company by...
Página 258 - Wait a little longer, and you shall see those scattered mists rallying in the ravines, and floating up towards you, along the winding valleys, till they couch in quiet masses, iridescent with the morning light, upon the broad breasts of the higher hills, whose leagues of massy undulation will melt back and back into that robe of material light, until they fade away, lost in its lustre, to appear again above, in the serene heaven, like a wild, bright, impossible dream, foundationless and inaccessible,...
Página 154 - ... blue mist and fitful sound, and over all — the multitudinous bars of amber and rose, the sacred clouds that have no darkness, and only exist to illumine, were seen in fathomless intervals between the solemn and orbed repose of the stone pines, passing to lose themselves in the last, white, blinding lustre of the measureless line where the Campagna melted into the blaze of the sea.
Página 267 - The muscles and tendons of its anatomy are, in the mountain, brought out with force and convulsive energy, full of expression, passion, and strength; the plains and the lower hills are the repose and the effortless motion of the frame, when its muscles lie dormant and concealed beneath the lines of its beauty, — yet ruling those lines in their every undulation. This then is the first grand principle of the truth of the earth. The spirit of the hills is action, that of the lowlands repose...