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... looking - glass before him in the dim bedroom in Maiden - lane , painting his own portrait ; he had attempted , too , his friend Girtin's- Poor Tom's ! Why might he not hope one day to rival the great Sir Joshua in Leicester - square ...
... looking - glass before him in the dim bedroom in Maiden - lane , painting his own portrait ; he had attempted , too , his friend Girtin's- Poor Tom's ! Why might he not hope one day to rival the great Sir Joshua in Leicester - square ...
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... looking up in his father's absorbed face is a pretty spectacle to think of ; I watch them till they reach the great house , and the father , looking more important than ever , pulls fami- liarly but modestly at the bell . แ " That's old ...
... looking up in his father's absorbed face is a pretty spectacle to think of ; I watch them till they reach the great house , and the father , looking more important than ever , pulls fami- liarly but modestly at the bell . แ " That's old ...
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... looking up from under the glittering razor , mumble through obstructive lather , " Well , Turner , have you settled yet what William is to be ? " - The barber will smile proudly , and hushing the frothy torrent of his professional talk ...
... looking up from under the glittering razor , mumble through obstructive lather , " Well , Turner , have you settled yet what William is to be ? " - The barber will smile proudly , and hushing the frothy torrent of his professional talk ...
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... looking over some prints . " This , " said Turner , with emo- tion , taking up a particular one , " made me a painter . " It was a green mezzotinto , a Vandervelde - an up- right ; a single large vessel running before the wind , and ...
... looking over some prints . " This , " said Turner , with emo- tion , taking up a particular one , " made me a painter . " It was a green mezzotinto , a Vandervelde - an up- right ; a single large vessel running before the wind , and ...
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... looking gilt - headed cane . N.B. He is a great authority at the " Three Pigeons " opposite . It was on the forms of Brentford that the cane of Mr. John White probably " bit into " Turner , to use an engravers ' term , the stories of ...
... looking gilt - headed cane . N.B. He is a great authority at the " Three Pigeons " opposite . It was on the forms of Brentford that the cane of Mr. John White probably " bit into " Turner , to use an engravers ' term , the stories of ...
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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...