Works, Volume 1J. Wiley & sons, 1887 |
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aerial aerial perspective Albert Durer Alps altogether appears architecture artist beauty blue boughs Canaletto CHAPTER character characteristic chiaroscuro Claude clouds color colorists Copley Fielding curves dark degree delicate distance distinct drapery drawing edge effect especially evident execution expression exquisite false farther feeling foliage foreground Gallery Giorgione give given gray hills ideas of imitation ideas of power ideas of truth impossible impression instance Italy J. M. W. Turner kind landscape art landscape painters less light and shade lines look mass means mind mist modern mountain nature never Nicholas Poussin objects observed old masters painting particular peculiar perception perfect picture pleasure Poussin principles pure qualities receive reflection rendering respect Rivers of France rocks seen shadow space specta sublime surface thing thought tion Titian tone touch transparent trees ture Turner vapor Venice waves whole
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Página 91 - The Clouds that gather round the setting sun Do take a sober colouring from an eye That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality ; Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Página 205 - All has passed, unregretted as unseen; or if the apathy be ever shaken off, even for an instant, it is only by what is gross, or what is extraordinary; and yet it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, not 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 xli - ... four-square, remnants of mighty edifices, not one left upon another, lie upon them to keep them down. A dull purple, poisonous haze stretches level along the desert, veiling its spectral wrecks of massy ruins, on whose rents the red light rests like dying fire on defiled altars. The blue ridge of the Alban mount lifts itself against a solemn space of green, clear, quiet sky. Watch-towers of dark clouds stand steadfastly along the promontories of the Apennines. From the plain to the mountains,...
Página 204 - And instead of this, there is not a moment of any day of our lives, when nature is not producing scene after scene, picture after picture, glory after glory, and working still upon such exquisite and constant principles of the most perfect beauty, that it is quite certain it is all done for us, and intended for our perpetual pleasure.
Página 426 - 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 264 - ... of their silent domes flushing that heaven about them and above them, piercing with purer light through its purple lines of lifted cloud, casting a new glory on every wreath as it passes by, until the whole heaven, one scarlet canopy, is interwoven with...
Página 382 - It is a sunset on the Atlantic, after prolonged storm ; but the storm is partially lulled, and the torn and streaming rain-clouds are moving in scarlet lines to lose themselves in the hollow of the night. The whole surface of...
Página 265 - ... the whole heaven — one scarlet canopy, — is interwoven with a roof of waving flame, and tossing, vault beyond vault, as with the drifted wings of many companies of angels ; and then, when you can look no more for gladness, and when you are bowed down with fear and love of the Maker and Doer of this, tell me. who has best delivered this His message unto men ! V 1 Vignette to Campbell's Last Man.
Página 156 - ... dark though flushed with scarlet lichen, casting their quiet shadows across its restless radiance, the fountain underneath them filling its marble hollow with 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...
Página 51 - This is certain, that whatever alterations are made in the body, if they reach not the mind, whatever impressions are made on the outward parts, if they are not taken notice of within, there is no perception.