The harbours of England . ft. XII.—SCARBOROUGH I HAVE put this plate last in the series, think-ing that the reader will be glad to rest inits morning quietness, after so much tossingamong the troubled foam. I said in the courseof the introduction, that nothing is so perfectlycalm as Turners calmness; and I know veryfew better examples of this calmness than theplate before us, uniting, as it does, the glitter-ing of the morning clouds, and trembling ofthe sea, with an infinitude of peace in are one or two points of interest inthe artifices by which the intense effect ofcalm is produc
The harbours of England . ft. XII.—SCARBOROUGH I HAVE put this plate last in the series, think-ing that the reader will be glad to rest inits morning quietness, after so much tossingamong the troubled foam. I said in the courseof the introduction, that nothing is so perfectlycalm as Turners calmness; and I know veryfew better examples of this calmness than theplate before us, uniting, as it does, the glitter-ing of the morning clouds, and trembling ofthe sea, with an infinitude of peace in are one or two points of interest inthe artifices by which the intense effect ofcalm is produced. Much is owing, in thefirst place, to the amount of absolute gloomobtained by the local blackness of the boatson the beach; like a piece of the midnightleft unbroken by the dawn. But more isowing to the treatment of the distant har-bour mouth. In general, throughout nature,129 j 130 THE HARBOURS OF ENGLAND Reflection and Repetition are peaceful things; that is to say, the image of any object, seenin calm water, gives us
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