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THE DO RE GALLERY.
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avenue of trees, which the cessation of all human interference for a hundred years has
converted into a forest glade. To adopt the pleasant verses of Mr. Tom Hood—
“Along that silent avenue the young Prince gaily passes ;
’Tis carpeted with velvet moss beneath the nodding grasses.
The dreamy sunlight, through the boughs upon the green sward streaming,
Sets here and there with radiance rare a lingering dewdrop gleaming.
On either hand rise lofty stems; above, the branches mingle ;
And, as a glimpse of blue shuts in the end ot some green dingle,
Framed in an arch of greenery where that long alley closes,
He sees a flight of steps, a gate o’ergrown with truant roses,
And some one who beside the gate in that warm sunshine dozes.” Fairy Realm.
The Prince passes the sleepy porter, whom no blows will awaken, and enters the
palace.
The tangled overgrowth of the wood, with its mingling of shadow and sunshine, is
most artistically represented ; and a sense of solitude, of silence, and of dreamy enchantment,
is thrown over the whole.
PLATE CXLVI.
THE BATTLE OF THE ANGELS.
Raphael, relating to Adam and Eve the events of the great conflict in heaven, tells
them :—
“ Now storming fury rose,
And clamour, such as heard in heaven till now
Was never. Arms on armour clashing brayed
Horrible discord, and the madding wheels
Of brazen chariots raged : dire was the noise
Of conflict; overhead the dismal hiss
Of fiery darts in flaming volleys flew,
And, flying, vaulted either host with fire.
So, under fiery cope, together rushed
Both battles main, with ruinous assault
And inextinguishable rage.” Paradise Lost, Book VI., lines 207—217.
The hurtle of the winged warriors encountering in mid air is very suggestive of angelic
warfare.
PLATE CXLVII.
THE COUNCIL HELD BY THE RATS (LA FONTAINE).
A certain cat spread so much terror through the kingdom of the rats, that the latter,
taking advantage of the cat’s absence one day, held a council to determine what should
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avenue of trees, which the cessation of all human interference for a hundred years has
converted into a forest glade. To adopt the pleasant verses of Mr. Tom Hood—
“Along that silent avenue the young Prince gaily passes ;
’Tis carpeted with velvet moss beneath the nodding grasses.
The dreamy sunlight, through the boughs upon the green sward streaming,
Sets here and there with radiance rare a lingering dewdrop gleaming.
On either hand rise lofty stems; above, the branches mingle ;
And, as a glimpse of blue shuts in the end ot some green dingle,
Framed in an arch of greenery where that long alley closes,
He sees a flight of steps, a gate o’ergrown with truant roses,
And some one who beside the gate in that warm sunshine dozes.” Fairy Realm.
The Prince passes the sleepy porter, whom no blows will awaken, and enters the
palace.
The tangled overgrowth of the wood, with its mingling of shadow and sunshine, is
most artistically represented ; and a sense of solitude, of silence, and of dreamy enchantment,
is thrown over the whole.
PLATE CXLVI.
THE BATTLE OF THE ANGELS.
Raphael, relating to Adam and Eve the events of the great conflict in heaven, tells
them :—
“ Now storming fury rose,
And clamour, such as heard in heaven till now
Was never. Arms on armour clashing brayed
Horrible discord, and the madding wheels
Of brazen chariots raged : dire was the noise
Of conflict; overhead the dismal hiss
Of fiery darts in flaming volleys flew,
And, flying, vaulted either host with fire.
So, under fiery cope, together rushed
Both battles main, with ruinous assault
And inextinguishable rage.” Paradise Lost, Book VI., lines 207—217.
The hurtle of the winged warriors encountering in mid air is very suggestive of angelic
warfare.
PLATE CXLVII.
THE COUNCIL HELD BY THE RATS (LA FONTAINE).
A certain cat spread so much terror through the kingdom of the rats, that the latter,
taking advantage of the cat’s absence one day, held a council to determine what should