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American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)

Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 174

An illustration from American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects, 1889, leaf 174
n its motion,Open wide on her lap lay the well-worn psalm-book of Ainsworth,Printed in Amsterdam, the words and the music together.Rough-hewn, angular notes, like stones in the wall of a churchyard,Darkened and overhung by the running vine of the verses.Such was the book from whose pages she sang… … those accompanying Irvings Rip Van Winkle, which drew forth a letter of warm appreciationfrom Joseph Jefferson; and those made for Edward Everett Hales masterly story of The Man 144 AMERICAN ART without a Country. But perhaps the best of all his drawings are the ones which he has sogracefully…

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