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" Behind these sallows, in a nook between them and the hill, rose the uncouth and shapeless cottage of Tom Cordery. It is a scene which hangs upon the eye and the memory, striking, grand, almost sublime, and above all eminently foreign. No English painter... "
The Works of Mary Russell Mitford: Prose and Verse, Viz. Our Village ... - Page 48
by Mary Russell Mitford - 1846 - 672 pages
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The Spirit of the English Magazines

1826 - 504 pages
...grand, almost sublime, and above all, eminently foreign. No English painter would choose such a subject for an English landscape ; no one in a picture would...English. It might pass for one of those scenes which have famished models to Salvator Rosa. Tom's cottage was, however, very thoroughly national and characteristic...
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