The Life of J.M.W. Turner,: ... Founded on Letters and Papers Furnished by His Friends and Fellow Academicians. By Walter Thornbury. In Two Volumes, Volume 1Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn, 13, Great Marlborough Street, 1862 - 425 páginas |
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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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... PAINTER · LOVE AND AMBITION • · CHAPTER IV . 70 CHAPTER V. TURNER'S CONTEMPORARIES IN WATER AND OIL 78 CHAPTER VI . TURNER AND GIRTIN AT DR . MUNRO'S 91 CHAPTER VII . TURNER'S FRIENDLY RIVAL , GIRTIN • • 101 CHAPTER VIII . TURNER , THE ...
... PAINTER · LOVE AND AMBITION • · CHAPTER IV . 70 CHAPTER V. TURNER'S CONTEMPORARIES IN WATER AND OIL 78 CHAPTER VI . TURNER AND GIRTIN AT DR . MUNRO'S 91 CHAPTER VII . TURNER'S FRIENDLY RIVAL , GIRTIN • • 101 CHAPTER VIII . TURNER , THE ...
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... painter derived one of his Christian names . An uncle of the painter settled in Barnstaple , and became a wool - merchant . A de- scendant of this uncle is now principal clerk in one of the Barnstaple banks , and kindly furnishes me ...
... painter derived one of his Christian names . An uncle of the painter settled in Barnstaple , and became a wool - merchant . A de- scendant of this uncle is now principal clerk in one of the Barnstaple banks , and kindly furnishes me ...
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... painter of the ' Téméraire . ' 999 It That narrow , smoky defile , Maiden - lane , now so sacred a place in the eyes of many Englishmen , does not perhaps seem to the " outer barbarians , " or art 8 MAIDEN - LANE . Gentiles , a lane ...
... painter of the ' Téméraire . ' 999 It That narrow , smoky defile , Maiden - lane , now so sacred a place in the eyes of many Englishmen , does not perhaps seem to the " outer barbarians , " or art 8 MAIDEN - LANE . Gentiles , a lane ...
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Página 300 - 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...
Página 320 - 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.
Página 191 - 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...
Página 192 - 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 Benmore green mosses grow, And heath-bells bud in deep...
Página 192 - 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.
Página 187 - 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...
Página 161 - 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.
Página 337 - 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...
Página 225 - Cupid in attendance; and if it had wings like a dove, to flee away and be at rest, the rest would not be the worse for the change. Thorwaldsten is closely engaged on the late Pope's (Pius VII.) monument. Portraits of the superior animal, man, is to be found in all. In some the inferior — viz., greyhounds and poodles, cats and monkeys, &c.
Página 155 - I do not know in what district of England Turner first or VOL. I.— 13 longest studied, but the scenery whose influence I can trace most definitely throughout his works, varied as they are, is that of Yorkshire.