The life of J.M.W. Turner, Volume 2 |
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Abbey admirable APPENDIX artist beautiful blue Brandard Bridge called Carthage Castle Cathedral Chantrey Charles Turner Claude clouds Codicil Collection colour Constable Danby dark death Dido Ditto early effect English engraved Executors EXHIBITION Fallacies of Hope Farnley Farnley Hall feeling finished foreground Gainsborough Gambart genius George Jones give Goodall Hill Illustrations interest J. M. W. TURNER Jones Joshua Kirby knew Lake landscape Lawrence Liber Studiorum light lived look Lord manner Margate Miller mind Miss Freer morning National Gallery nature never once painted painter pencil Petworth Philip Hardwick portrait Price Turner Professor of Perspective Queen Anne-street West river Rome Royal Academy Ruskin says scene seen sketch story thought told trees Trimmer Trustees Turner's pictures Twickenham varnishing days Venice View W. R. Smith Wallis water-colour water-colour drawings Wilkie William Willmore
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Page 369 - And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt ; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
Page 374 - 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!
Page 382 - That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.
Page 375 - When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person : see ye to it.
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Page 377 - 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.
Page 411 - The above instrument, consisting of one sheet, was at the date thereof signed, sealed, published and declared by the said 0 ohn Forsythe, as and for his last will and testament, in presence of us, who at his request, and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.
Page 381 - Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro, Lead to her gates. The path lies o'er the Sea, Invisible; and from the land we went, As to a floating City — steering in, And gliding up her streets as in a dream, So smoothly, silently...
Page 330 - LORD : and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest. And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
Page 333 - 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.