American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . oody earnest of storm and siege, and 382 AMERICAN ART now in the games of chivalry, where Beauty dealt the prize which Valour won, all is now bed of the lake is but a rushy swamp; and the massive ruins of the castle only serve toshow what their splendor once was, and to impress on the musing visitor the transitory value ofhuman possessions, and the happiness of those who enjoy a humble lot in virtuous con-tentment. Warwick, both town and castle, furnished material for other pictures, and somewere found in the
American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects . oody earnest of storm and siege, and 382 AMERICAN ART now in the games of chivalry, where Beauty dealt the prize which Valour won, all is now bed of the lake is but a rushy swamp; and the massive ruins of the castle only serve toshow what their splendor once was, and to impress on the musing visitor the transitory value ofhuman possessions, and the happiness of those who enjoy a humble lot in virtuous con-tentment. Warwick, both town and castle, furnished material for other pictures, and somewere found in the — Pleasant, pleasant woods of Warwick, when the shaws are thick with summer : Green and golden, gloom and sunshine, leafy wealth of wilderness ;Velvet mosses plashing rainbows round the feet of any comer, Lingering where the dew still lingers, branches droop, and odors press ;High above the castle towers; down below the wild brook brawling;And across a dream of sorrow, hark ! the nightingales are calling, Far away in long-drawn depths of dusky dell and dark The Little Champion. Drawn by Peirce. Nor was the gentle Avon left unpainted. A placid stream, says Hugh Miller, broadlybefringed with sedges, winds in tortuous reaches through rich meadows; and now it sparklesin open sunlight, for the trees recede; and anon it steals away, scarce seen, amid the gloom ofbosky thickets. And such is the Avon — Shakspeares own river. According to Charles Knight, All the great natural features of the river must have suffered little change since the time ofShakspeare. Inundations in some places may have widened the channel; osier islands may havegrown up where there was once a broad stream. But we here look upon the same scenery uponwhich he looked, as truly as we gaze upon the same blue sky, and see its image in the same glassywater. Peirce also visited Derbyshire, where he painted Haddon Hall, and made an excursionto Scotland. Among the pictures brought back from the land of the m
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