American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 473
nity is subject from fall of temperature and adversehygrometrical condition. Numerous are the devices for making the situation less unbearableand to prevent the hand from stiffening, but nothing enables human nature to endure themisery for long. Thick boots and a slab of cork may save the feet from… … AMERICAN ART 893 the landscape-painter finds his work almost impossible. Providence tempers the wind to theshorn lamb, says Sterne, — a sentiment so beautiful that many take it for Scripture, — but theshorn lambs of Art have not yet devised any effective method of defending themselves fromthe…
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