. John Pettie, , ; . pired The Toast, Sir Peter andLady Teazle, and Charles Surface selling hisAncestorSv Many more subjects were entirelythe offspring of his own imagination. Full ofsympathy and humanity, he passed from tragicscenes of history to pure humour, as in ThePrison Pet, The Trio, The Tussle for theKeg ; or to comedies in little, touched with lightfancy and the joy of life, like A Storm in a Tea-cup, Rejected Addresses, Two Strings to herBow, and The World went very well then ; orto happy domestic themes, such as The Soloand The Step. In George Fox refusing to take the Oa
. John Pettie, , ; . pired The Toast, Sir Peter andLady Teazle, and Charles Surface selling hisAncestorSv Many more subjects were entirelythe offspring of his own imagination. Full ofsympathy and humanity, he passed from tragicscenes of history to pure humour, as in ThePrison Pet, The Trio, The Tussle for theKeg ; or to comedies in little, touched with lightfancy and the joy of life, like A Storm in a Tea-cup, Rejected Addresses, Two Strings to herBow, and The World went very well then ; orto happy domestic themes, such as The Soloand The Step. In George Fox refusing to take the Oath,and in The Duke of Monmouth and James II.,he depicted scenes based on historical in many pictures, and among them his finestpictures, he did not limit himself to the narrowbounds of a definite historical episode. He gave thespkit of history, its background and atmosphere,and painted those happenings that underlie andgive rise to great historical facts. Cromwells THE CLASH OF STEEL (size of orUjinaU 37^ x 56.^.). SUBJECTS AND STYLE 175 Saints and A Member of the Long Parliamentsummarise between them, as clearly as a wholechapter of a history - book, the character ofCromwells followers. There may be no writtenevidence as to the first death-warrant signed byEdward VI., yet we can well imagine the sad-eyedlook with which the boy king took the pen froman aged councillor to sign away for the first timea mans life. The Drum-head Court Martialdepicts no historical scene, yet it sets before us invivid reality an improvised tribunal, such as musthave hanged many a man in the wars of theseventeenth century. Beleaguered towns in thesame century witnessed many a scene such as The Sally, Terms to the Besieged, The Flagof Truce, The Threat, and The , The Traitor, The State Secretare the very stuff of which history is made. Allhis work shows the possession of that qualitywhich the formal critics of literature call actually saw the things that he pai
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