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Title: Autobiographical notes of the life of William Bell Scott : and notices of his artistic and poetic circle of friends, 1830 to 1882
Year: 1892 (1890s)
Authors: Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 Minto, William, 1845-1893
Subjects: Scott, William Bell, 1811-1890 Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882 Poets, English -- 19th century Painters -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Osgood, McIlvaine
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ished, but is a beautiful work, full of poeticfeeling. He always had a great love of the sea, seen fromthe land, for he was no sailor, and one of the drives heloved best was along the coast, south of Girvan, whereyou and I went the last time you were here. Sometimeswhen the sea was very calm he would stop the carriage tolisten to the wash of the waves till his eyes filled withtears. Fortunately his love of Penkill was so great that henever tired of it ; and the enjoyment he had in the changeof the seasons—the flowers as they came, and the farmingoperations, ploughing in the autumn, with flocks of whitesea-birds following in the new-turned furrows, the sowergoing out to sow, scattering the seed as he goes—wasalways a delight. Then the harvesting—the strong manon the reaping machine, his powerful arms regulating theswathes of corn with his large rake, and the gatherers ready, each in his place, quickly and deftly securing andbinding his or her sheaf When possible, we used to drive
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CONCLUDING CHAPTER BY THE EDITOR 325 our brougham into the field, and watch row by row of thegolden corn fall as the large horses slowly wended theirway. The fact was that work, big or little, really done zvell,gave very great delight to his true artists eye. When ournew hall^ was building he would (this was before his illness)sit watching the masons placing their stones and provingtheir lines by the plumb, and anything done not as itshould be was very disturbing to him ; and often have Ibeen made to do things over again when I thought thempretty good ! This desire to do the best possible ran through all hisactions in life, and a most severe critic he was of himself,and so tender-hearted that I have known him deprived ofsleep by the thought that perhaps a spoken or writtenword of his might hurt the feelings of a friend. I should like it to be recorded how very ready he wasto give wise advice to young men entering upon life ; andhowever busy he might be when called upon, he seldom,if e

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