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Fifty years of work without wages : (laborare est orare) (1912)

Rowley, Charles · London ; New York : Hodder and Stoughton · leaf 136

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hereto the close-built coiling lanes unroll, Faced his work-window, whence his eyes would stare,Thought-wandering, unto nought that met them there, But to the unfettered, irreversible goal. This cupboard, Holy of Holies, held the cloudOf his soul writ and limned; this other one, His true wifes… … THE PAINTER.(By favour of Mr. Watts-Dunton.) FORD MADOX BROWN At the Royal Academy banquet on May 5th,1894, Lord Leighton spoke thus of FordMadox Brown, who died the year before: For there was that in his work which wasapt to arouse the uneasy dread of the not-usualwhich mostly marks the middling…

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