Westminster abbey and the cathedrals of England (1895)
Farrar, Frederic William, 1831-1903, Milman, Henry Hart, 1791-1868, Stanley, Arthur Penrhyn, 1815-1881 · Philadelphia : J. C. Winston & co. · leaf 83
they had vexed the later years of Reynolds, in their deep and reverential sorrow. It was Turners dying request that he might repose as near as possible to SirJoshua Reynolds. This request was granted without hesitation. There was a wild storythat Turner, in one of his fits of ill humour with the… … AlyTAR AND REREDO& ^V. PauVs. 17 temptation of at least tacitly couniving at a crime like that of the saint-worshippers ofold, who broke open their tombs for less valuable plunder—plunder which the worldmight have better spared than Turners Carthage. The great sculptors, Flaxman, Chantrey,…
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