A Funeral Oration, Occasioned by the Death of Thomas Cole: Delivered Before the National Academy of Design, New-York, May 4, 1848D. Appleton, 1848 - 42 sider |
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148 CHESNUT-STREET 200 BROADWAY ACADEMY OF DESIGN admirable afterwards American APPLETON & COMPANY Arch of Nero architecture artist Arts Library assiduously banks beauty best picture blended bloom canvass Catskill Cole's colour commission coun Course of Empire DCCC XLVIII delight desire diately Dunlap earlier engaged excellence executed exhibition feel flowers forest founded the Academy friends FUNERAL ORATION genius grandeur heard him say imme Italy Lancashire landscape painter Let me say letters linger luxu manner merit mind Mountain Home Naples NATIONAL ACADEMY nature never New-York nobler occasion Ohio old Academy Paestum painted pass patron pencil PHILADELPHIA poem poet possess present produced recollect riance Rome scarcely less second visit seems serene shadow Sicily sketches sorrow speak Steubenville strength studied and copied summits Switzerland THOMAS COLE tion took Trumbull valleys variety Verbryck visit to Europe WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT winter youth Zanesville to Chillicothe
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Side 38 - CALL it not vain: — they do not err, Who say, that when the Poet dies, Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies: Who say, tall cliff, and cavern lone, For the departed Bard make moan; That mountains weep in crystal rill; That flowers in tears of balm distil; Through his loved groves that breezes sigh, And oaks, in deeper groan, reply; And rivers teach their rushing wave To murmur dirges round his grave.
Side 12 - ... carried the eye over scenes of wild grandeur peculiar to our country , over our aerial mountain-tops with their mighty growth of forest never touched by the axe, along the banks of streams never deformed by culture, and into the depth of skies bright with the hues of our own climate...
Side 37 - Cole used the winnowing processes of memory and time: ". . . you never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately on returning from them ... I must wait for time to draw a veil over the common details...
Side 12 - Bryant in his funeral oration, "he had a fixed reputation, and was numbered among the men of whom our country has reason to be proud." He went to Europe in 1831, where his success was not marked, and on his return to America his friends said of him that he had lost his American spirit which gave his pictures their character before leaving for Italy; but he soon recovered his old-time enthusiasm and regained...
Side 1 - COLE'S works did not appear ou ils walls: * To have missed them/ he adds, ' would have made us feel that the collection was incomplete. Yet we shall miss them hereafter ; that skilful hand is at rest forever. His departure has left a vacuity which amazes and alarms us. It is as if the voyager on the Hudson were to look toward the great range of the Catskills, at the foot of which COLE, with a reverential fondness, had fixed his abode, and were to see that the grandest of its summits had disappeared...
Side 3 - The paintings of Cole are of that nature that it hardly transcends language to call them acts of religion.' While his rich, brushy panoramas demonstrated the insignificance of man as he confronted God's handiwork, their programmatic organization stressed the vanity and brevity of his existence. His proudest achievements - The Course of Empire, The Departure and the...
Side 20 - That he would have been a great painter," says Bryant, "if he had never studied abroad — scarcely less great on that account — no man can doubt ; but would he have been able to paint some of these pictures which we most value and most affectionately admire ; that fine one, for example, the Ruins of Aqueducts in the Campagna of Rome, with its broad masses of shadow dividing the sunshine that bathes the solitary plain, strewn with ruins ; its glorious mountains in the distance, and its silence...
Side 26 - ... glorious picture, and the idea of the poet could not have been better illustrated. With regard to the actual views, and other less ambitious proSecond visit to Europe. — Pictures of American scenery. ductions of Cole, we can only say that the entire number might be estimated at about one hundred. " In July, 1841, Cole sailed on a second visit to Europe. On this occasion he travelled much in Switzerland, which he had never before seen, lingering as long as the limits of the time he had prescribed...
Side 15 - I rejoice to hear your report of Morse's advance in his art. / know what is in him, perhaps, better than any one else. If he will only bring out all that is there, he will show powers that many now do not dream of."* * Mr.
Side 39 - ... because of his departure. . . . The region of the Catskills, where he wandered and studied and sketched, and wrought his sketches into such glorious creations, is saddened by a desolate feeling when we behold it and think of it. The mind that we knew was abroad in those scenes EULOGY ON COLE. 35 of grandeur and beauty, and which gave them a higher interest in our eyes, has passed from the earth, and we see that something of power and greatness is withdrawn from the sublime mountain-tops and the...
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