American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 401
, she must clutch it, though with bleeding fingers; her feet must cling to the firm earththat the sunlight would revisit, not slip into the untried abyss, where she might long even forfamiliar pains. Janet trod slowly with her naked feet on the rough pavement, trembling at the fitful gleams… … Dorothea finds Mr. Casaubon Dead. Drawn by Taylor. There is an impressive silent dignity in the bowed form of dead Mr. Casaubon in the summer-house (from Middlemarch ), which many artists would have missed. When she entered the Yew-tree Walk, she could not see her husband; but the walk hadbends,…
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