American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 366
over which a few starsare peeping like eyes of gigantic shapes, whose shadowy forms the imagination will not findit hard to distinguish. A sailing ship moving quietly onwards, or lying restfully in the heart of a calm, offersa surface upon which the magic brushes of the moon will paint a hundred… … Ship .-iT Anchor. Drawn bv Perkins. end of a boom or the clew of a sail, are like bands of shining silver. There is nothing fairerthan the spectacle of a sleeping ship, with her canvas hanging silent from the yards, stealing cutto the light of the moon that soars sparkling as if wet from the sea.…
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