Identifier: cu31924059053607 (find matches)
Title: Three essays : On picturesque beauty; On picturesque travel; and On sketching landscape : with a poem, on landscape painting. To these are now added two essays, giving an account of the principles and mode in which the author executed his own drawings.
Year: 1808 (1800s)
Authors: Gilpin, William, 1724-1804 Loewy, Benno, 1854-1919. fmo Wordsworth Collection
Subjects: Landscape painting Landscape drawing
Publisher: London : Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies ...
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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whole ; and if thy hand 545 Be guided by true fcience, it is fureTo guide thy pencil freely. Scorn thou thenOn parts minute to dwell. The characterOf objects aim at, not the nice detail. Now is the fcene compleat: with Natures eafe, 550Thy woods, and lawns, and rocks, and fplendid lakes,And diftant hills unite; it but remainsTo people thefe fair regions. Some for thisConfult the facred page; and in a nookObfcure, prefent the Patriarchs teft of faith, $$§ The little altar, and the vi&im fon:Or haply, to adorn fome vacant fky,Load it with forms, that fabling bard fuppliesWho fang of bodies changed j the headlong fteeds,The car upheaved of Phaeton, while he, 560 Rafh boy ! fpreads on the plain his pallid corfe,His filters weeping round him. Groups like thefeBefit not landfcape : Say, does Abraham thereOught that fome idle peafant might not do ?Is there expreifion, paffion, character, $6$ To mark the Patriarchs fortitude and faith ?The fcanty fpace which perfpeclive allows, Forbids.
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( 120 ) His fylvan glories. Seize them, Pefttlence,And fweep them far from our difgufted fight! If oer thy canvafs Ocean pours his tide,The full fized veffel, with its fwelling fail, 600 Be cautious to admit; unlefs thy artCan give it cordage, pennants, mafls, and formAppropriate ; rather with a carelefs touchOf light, or made, juft mark the diftant fkifF. Nor thou refufe that ornamental aid, 605 The feathered race afford. When fluttering nearThe eye, we own abfurdity refults;They feem both fixed and moving : but beheldAt proper diftance, they will fill thy IkyWith animation. Leave them there free fcope : 610Their diftant motion gives us no offence. Far up yon river, opening to the fea,Juft: where the diftant coafl extends a curve,A lengthened train of fea-fowl urge their flight.Obferve their files ! In what exact array 615 • The dark battalion floats, distinctly feenBefore yon filver cliff! Now, now, they reachThat lonely beacon ; now are loft againIn yon dark cloud. How pleafing i

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