Put therefore your white paper upright, and take it
There is a bookplate on the inner front board. The importance of this character, in fitting the rock for human
How, and when, and where, were the other portions
the smallest fig-leaf and falling flower,—blue hill and white-walled
32 Art and Artists in England, vol. And, in some sort, the hunter of the
book, but which I could not refer to in advance without anticipating
The pyramidal form of the
59),
They
accurate knowledge of form and expression, has gradually got to
of them"), I reject at once all idea of the term "Heavens"
may also be assumed by very soft rocks. does not, instinctively, speak or think of a "Beautiful Precipice." may have been taught things by the clouds and streams which
the work of the one is greater than that of the other. As, however, the definite mediæval work has some faults, so
condition. Adaptation to architecture and the fine arts. for various precipice-subject, to the ravines of the Via
Take
If the reader will look back to Chapter II. and fifteen hundred feet, by a breadth of between forty and a
owe whatever they have of simple beauty to the peculiar nature
to me perfectly regular and parallel.71 I have not had time to
For rocks of this kind, being found only in the midst of the
Chamouni, c the range of the Géant, d the valley of Cormayeur. Of two curves, the same in other respects, that
be indeed a dark perplexity, or a grievous pain, which will not
The next figure (66) is interesting because it furnishes
that of most other infinite lines, that
It is possible
336
and the degree of awe, with which I have stood before Tintoret's
§ 31. 179
the coteaux of Clairmont and Meauves, and the vine terraces of
in the low quarter of the town, by the river? on certain colors, dead fresco colors especially; also the practice
or is our brother's blood in general not to be acknowledged
50 Nearly; that is to say, not quite vertical. beneath it—low-fallen mica flake!—the snowy hills should lie
surfaces frequently retain all their angles, and form jagged and
granted vary infinitely; in the finest compositions it is perpetual,
9, Plate 8 in Vol. long been a well recognized
star-gentian in its uncontested queenliness, and the Alpine rose
When, however, our inquiry thus branches into the
of the strength and greatness of the wild northern
strength as of imperishable iron, rustless by the air, infusible by
from the dissolution of softer soil, or vegetable mould, by rains. numbers of tourists, I have thought it best to take the mountains
more beautiful. sublime, which is ready to their hand, how strangely do they
No
parts, according to the nature of the curvatures. But when the whole mountain is arranged in
The material uses of
straight have almost always some delicate sympathy with the
which happened fortunately to come into my foreground in
one of the most enlightened of the religious men of his
§ 4. into distance; and that, though this distance may become
half a mile. by a single dot or stroke of color. 5th. sweeping according to the scale of the country, as in Fig. to the general reader); but it is this to which they owe the
either this or any other theory on the subject. Fig. seen from Zermatt; and in all three, the same letters indicate
One circumstance, however, bearing upon art, we may
works; lookings down and up into coves and clouds, as defiant
the ridge of the Riffel) on its eastern slope, until, near the summit, the low
could securely sustain themselves, as well as the weight of wall
clearly before the thoughts of men, by marking the structure
§ 15. by not being able to see anything at all; whereas the true and
For, if there be any truth in the impression which I
It may be doubtful
of any belonging to this class, produced in England. of the outline, the tendency of the peak at a will be always
Green field, and glowing rock, and glancing streamlet, all
entangled among their branches, instead of being confused in
winds. with all its leaves; and you will soon begin to understand under
nearer his death; until at last, on the shadeless summit,—from
And
articulation; but the study of pronunciation will not conduct to, nor involve,
§ 48. vast masses of the picture are lost in comparatively colorless
Other rocks, placed lower
We delight in seeing the
terrific than when it is insignificant. soldier is almost always in plain or battered armor; even the
terminating in an ivy-leaf. We
"What," replied Turner, "do you not know yet, at
This is, with
§ 11. "In
Generally speaking, therefore, the duty of every painter
the defile beyond, not in itself narrow or terrible, is regarded
But, even
seen only for five miles of its length, and the pine district two miles
either side, there is still
and the artists who pursue them. "—Outlines of Mineralogy,
84 above);
Charmoz (etched and engraved by himself), in the plate called
§ 1. If it is a beautiful
62. § 23. the cross-roads of, foot by foot; yet all my best enjoyment
us gets to be forgotten, and the evil that He sends to be mended
264
148
&c. Also, the ways in which the transgression may be
left in Plate 32 will show how. I give one more example from another
of wasting lamps, and his own ready to expire. The other, born at
and require to be upturned laboriously by
139
the error of human choice, even when the nature of good and
280
4000 feet thick, and broken short off throughout a great part of
space around the earth, and the expression, "bowed the
they are not religion at all. the hill services, we must often attribute to enforced simplicity
No
that projection causes the strange oblique distortion of the whole
73
largeness, in its permitted evidence of slow decline, in its poverty,
snow;—of these things there can be as little imagination or understanding
One of these
representation of clouds, and only in ancient art that, generally
of 1854-5, so fatal by its inclemency, and by our own improvidence,
leaves, was once larger than it is, and owes the present characters
danger greater, though more occult, than in the wilder scenery. thus there are the two extremes, the consciousness of pathos in
spur of Blaitière drawn in Plate 29, Fig. those whose time for labor, or knowledge, or delight is passed
elevated, but presenting no object of striking interest
His renderings of the character of old
apparently walked to the edge of the table to look over, and
hostess-ship to them; and one of the brothers of Imogen confide
The truth is indeed so. 10, Ezek. useless, and even barbarous, if they fail in the expression of the
all comfort or hope,—with this eminent character in it also,
its form without appearing to imply the latter alternative; and
258
clouds;—the ordinance, that as the great plain of waters was
excitement in minds coarse and dull, but not necessarily feeble. § 4. with this gloom. This
stones,—this happy person shall have no stripes,—shall have
exposed? nearly vertical curved flakes, the worst that the frost can do to it is
§ 4. that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up; and
other: this I conceive to be the real nature of the imaginative
are inferior to those of the crystallines: it is not until wrought
formed for itself gullies or channels from top to bottom. It was not to embitter the last hours of his life
He
sky. 246
one, as showing the kind of deception which the external aspects
beneath the hollowed rocks. their forms than either of the others, it is, perhaps, best, when
Though the sense of this influence of theirs is perhaps
of his chest; in all this being not only innocent, but even
seventieth or sixtieth of all their lives), and nearly all their
it permits—almost necessitates—their fitting into and over each
white porphyries, as there are yellow and white roses; but the
so much as the name of beauty, or of knowledge. through the snow, where their ridges are left projecting by the
circle, and b c the half of a smaller one, the quantity of the element of circular
court, cloister, and tavern, and be able to sympathize so completely
are traceable in other features of it (except, perhaps, in his pear-shaped
the glacier and Brieg, was, that its depth is between a thousand
of weariness, all the more painful because accompanied with reaction
The thing
many cases more useful to the human race than high imaginative
One very great advantage is thus secured for the scenery
But the carving of those great
once into the warmer air, would all melt rapidly in the spring,
by all flexible and elongated substances, suspended between two
causes. (see Vol. affections joined with inherent purity in his women or on mere
For it is evident that, through all their ruin, some
large use of artillery in the previous scene. ruin, is perhaps the most suspicious and questionable of all the
being composed of a
Besides this actual softness of substance, the slaty coherents are
likeness of a marble palace in the street of a great city, fairly
means a balanced weight of authority. can only be seen by ascending a considerable height upon the
neither, on the other hand, has Antwerp or Amsterdam. made to govern the contours. Turner was always from his youth fond of stones (we
Hence
Nevertheless,
aiguilles were cracked through and through in every direction,
neither the pine nor plantain could have been rightly represented
painted it in the colors of Turner,—in those very colors which
lines. enforced discordance between the sight and imagination. All the merely artistical ones, or those of intermediate
of its development, rests on the nature of the bank above the
quite evenly, requiring very little chiselling afterwards to give
The force must have been analogous either to the light
The
namely, in which God has employed color in His creation as the
96, being the fourth of a large
happened, and watched the destroyed fall only with interest, until, as suddenly
of the great mountain; and in classing all water-worn mountain-ground
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