The life of J.M.W. Turner, Volume 1 |
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... proofs . The two or three noblemen who alone of their wealthy order patronized the 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 ...
... proofs . The two or three noblemen who alone of their wealthy order patronized the 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 ...
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... proofs by Turner , and for furnishing me with a unique and most valuable index to all Turner's engraved works , an index that cost Mr. Stokes off and on some twenty years ' labour . I also beg to acknowledge the kindness shown me by ...
... proofs by Turner , and for furnishing me with a unique and most valuable index to all Turner's engraved works , an index that cost Mr. Stokes off and on some twenty years ' labour . I also beg to acknowledge the kindness shown me by ...
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... proof of his genius from the records of his personal history . In many respects I certainly do not think his mind was so vast or so harmoniously developed as that of Michael Angelo , Raphael , or Titian . I do not think that his oil ...
... proof of his genius from the records of his personal history . In many respects I certainly do not think his mind was so vast or so harmoniously developed as that of Michael Angelo , Raphael , or Titian . I do not think that his oil ...
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... proof of his fitness . There is a council ; and among a pile of drawings , the Academicians at last come to one signed " WILLIAM TURNER . " It is as good , perhaps better than the rest . He is admitted probationary student of the Royal ...
... proof of his fitness . There is a council ; and among a pile of drawings , the Academicians at last come to one signed " WILLIAM TURNER . " It is as good , perhaps better than the rest . He is admitted probationary student of the Royal ...
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... proofs of the artist's study in this district ; for the affection to which they owe their excellence must have been grounded long years before . It is , I believe , to those broad wooded steeps and swells of the Yorkshire downs that we ...
... proofs of the artist's study in this district ; for the affection to which they owe their excellence must have been grounded long years before . It is , I believe , to those broad wooded steeps and swells of the Yorkshire downs that we ...
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Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...