Fry, Roger Eliot, 1866-1934 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 186
omewards beneath the eveningstar. Claude is the most ardent worshipper that ever was of the geniusloci. Of his landscapes one always feels that some god is in thisplace. Never, it is true, one of the greater gods: no mysterious-and fearful Pan, no soul-stirring Bacchus or all-embracing… … c a,« ■o c aih-l > CO CLAUDE 149 It is the sincerity of this worship, and the purity and directnessof its expression, which makes the lover of landscape turn with suchconstant affection to Claude, and the chief means by which he com-municates it is the unity and perfection of his general design;…
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