 | 1869 - 330 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...strangely with the tattered thatch of the roof and the half-broken windows. No garden, no pig-sty, no pens for geese, none of the usual signs of cottage habitation... | |
 | 1870 - 322 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...strangely with the tattered thatch of the roof and the half-broken windows. No garden, no pig-sty, no pens for geese, none of the usual signs of cottage habitation... | |
 | Garland - Poetry - 1872 - 170 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...strangely with the tattered thatch of the roof and the half broken windows. No garden, no pig-sty, no pens for geese, none of the usual signs of cottage habitation... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 860 pages
...— almost sublime, and, above all, eminently foreign. No English painter would choose such a subject half-broken windows. No garden, no pigsty, no pens for geese, none of the usual signs of cottage habitation... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 824 pages
...almost sublime, and. above all. eminently foreign. . No English paimcr would choose such a subject for an English landscape; no one. in a picture, would take it for Knglis i. Jt nVL'ht pass for one of those scenes which have furnished models (o Saivator Ho.*a. 'Jours... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1896 - 800 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...strangely with the tattered thatch of the roof, and the half-broken windows. No garden, no pigsty, no pens for geese, none of the usual signs of cottage habitation... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1903 - 888 pages
...— almost sublime, and, above all, eminently foreign. No English painter would choose such a subject ad Salvntor Rosa. Tom's cottage was, however, very thoroughly national and characteristic ; a low. ruinous... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - England - 1924 - 362 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...strangely with the tattered thatch of the roof, and the half-broken windows. No garden, no pig-sty, no pens for geese, none of the usual signs of cottage habitation... | |
 | English literature - 1825 - 804 pages
...sublime, and above all, eminently foreign. No English painter would choose such a subject for an Eng. lish landscape ; no one in a picture would take it for...those scenes which have furnished models to Salvator lto.su. Tom's cottage was, however, very thoroughly national and characteristic ; a low, ruinous hovel,... | |
 | 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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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... 
