 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1873 - 434 pages
...never suspected yesterday; a sunbeam frills, and a great crag leaps out to bask in it like an eagle from the copse. And after a certain practical apprenticeship,...and that real form belongs to sculpture alone. It is unnecessary to explain that clouds can never be painted from nature. Even the slowest of them are full... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1885 - 424 pages
...never suspected yesterday; a sunbeam falls, and a great crag leaps out to bask in it like an eagle from the copse. And after a certain practical apprenticeship,...and that real form belongs to sculpture alone. It is unnecessary to explain that clouds can never be painted from nature. Even the slowest of them are full... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 422 pages
...never suspected yesterday ; a sunbeam falls, and a great crag leaps out to bask in it like an eagle from the copse. And after a certain practical apprenticeship,...and that real form belongs to sculpture alone. It is unnecessary to explain that clouds can never be painted from nature. Even the slowest of them are full... | |
 | 1901 - 634 pages
...like an eagle from the copse. And after a .tin practical apprenticeship, the student at last discovers the only truth of landscape-painting is temporary...and that real form belongs to sculpture alone. It is unnecessary to explain that clouds can never be painted h nature. Even the slowest of them are full... | |
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... more than if the thing had been fairly chiselled away by the hand of a mighty sculptor. Rocks alter in apparent shape as the light changes. A wreath of mist creeps stealthily, and shows you a chasm you never suspected yesterday; a sunbeam falls, and... 