Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 1151
weed and shrub softly gliding on the sunny fence. There is a strange, awe-inspiring beauty in these pure, in-tangible shadows. The veriest homely weed, seen thus, as it were, in its disembodied spirit, becomes instinct with beauty. Wordsworth, it willbe remembered, fell upon his knees before the… … have no perspective and no shading. An easyway to arrange a vase of flowers or of leafy twigsfor drawing, is to study their shadow on a wallwhile the vase is slowly turned, until the shadowshows them to be suitably placed. We cannot draw a shadow by daylight for, ifcast by the sun, it moves as that…
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