American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 146
charming picture of an old English church which the artist has given us in thisillustration. How peacefully the river glides along beneath the stone arches of the bridge,waving the reeds in rhythmic motion as it flows past the churchyard wall! The sun issetting, and a last gleam lights up the white… … The Village Church. Drawn by Woodward. Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-trees shade. Where heaves the turf in many a mouldring heap,Each in his narrow cell forever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. Or to Tennysons lines where he speaks of the — Graves grass-green beside a gray…
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