Great pictures, as seen and described by famous writers (1899)
Singleton, Esther, d. 1930, ed. and tr · New York : Dodd, Mead and Company · leaf 255
n the narrow limits of his nativevalley; in whom love of locality was indeed the very basisof his art. Constable, for it was he, like Rembrandt, was the sonof a miller, and was born at a time when the winds andflowing waters were powers in the land, bearing a goldenharvest on their health-giving… … THE HAY WAIN 185 of wheels, and the whirr of sails, as they sped round beforethe wind, was the music of his boyhood. His father, goodman of the world as he was, holding a high opinion of thesolid comforts gained by following his own profitable call-ing, placed his son, at the age of seventeen, in…
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