The life of J.M.W. Turner, Volume 1 |
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... scene of his life - drama . No beauty or loveliness surrounded him ; the age , too , was poor , the religion faithless and half dead . The ebony dome -the dull red roofs - the squalid life - the low ideal , were far unlike , says a ...
... scene of his life - drama . No beauty or loveliness surrounded him ; the age , too , was poor , the religion faithless and half dead . The ebony dome -the dull red roofs - the squalid life - the low ideal , were far unlike , says a ...
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... scene of so many fashionable masquerades , and dinners too , but a few short years before , I have no record . We may suppose the boy slowly advancing ( for he was one of the slow ripeners ) , trying colours , drawing houses and ...
... scene of so many fashionable masquerades , and dinners too , but a few short years before , I have no record . We may suppose the boy slowly advancing ( for he was one of the slow ripeners ) , trying colours , drawing houses and ...
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... scenes could be treated classically , and without any loss of dignity . Far away too , in an obscure part of Scotland , Burns is fast growing up to sing of love , and homely pleasures and cares , with a true inspira- tion that proved ...
... scenes could be treated classically , and without any loss of dignity . Far away too , in an obscure part of Scotland , Burns is fast growing up to sing of love , and homely pleasures and cares , with a true inspira- tion that proved ...
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... scene of an annual " gooseberry fair , " where the Drury - lane actors planted their booths . At this time ( 1775 and after ) many of the " quality " lived on the western side of High - street , Marylebone . At this time , London was a ...
... scene of an annual " gooseberry fair , " where the Drury - lane actors planted their booths . At this time ( 1775 and after ) many of the " quality " lived on the western side of High - street , Marylebone . At this time , London was a ...
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... scenes which must otherwise have been entirely profitless to him . Scott's mind was just as large and full of sympathy as ... scene . He was strictly a Goth and a Scot , and his sphere of sen- sation may be almost exactly limited to the ...
... scenes which must otherwise have been entirely profitless to him . Scott's mind was just as large and full of sympathy as ... scene . He was strictly a Goth and a Scot , and his sphere of sen- sation may be almost exactly limited to the ...
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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...