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PLATE CCXXIV.
THE ANGEL SHOWING JERUSALEM IN RUINS TO SAINT JOHN.
This very impressive picture is its own description ; but that which, in the Book of Revelation,
the angel is described as showing to Saint John is the new or celestial Jerusalem, not
the ruins of the old or terrestrial.
PLATE CCXXV.
THE LIGHT IN THE WOOD.
When lost by night in the forest with his little brothers, Hop o’ my Thumb climbs to the
top of a high tree, and sees a distant light—the light, as it afterwards proves, of the
ogre’s house. The plate shows us a fine bit of solitary forest.
PLATE CCXXVI.
THE MAIDEN (LA FONTAINE).
A maiden of great beauty, but no less pride, refused suitor after suitor until, finding her
youth departing and her charms decaying, she was glad to accept a rough, unmannerly
boor. The Watteau-like engraving shows the lady in the days of her haughtiness.
PLATE CCXXVII.
CHRIST AND THE TRIBUTE MONEY.
The subject is from Matthew xxii. 15—22, where Jesus, being asked if it was lawful to
pay tribute to Caesar, replied by the celebrated speech, “ Render unto Caesar the thing
which are Caesar’s ; and unto God the things that are God’s.”
PLATE CCXXVI 11.
THE DON’S MISADVENTURE.
While staying at the inn to which allusion has already been made more than once, Don
Quixote is persuaded by the serving-maid, Maritornes, to present himself outside a small
grated window, that his hand may be kissed by a lady who, as Maritornes says, is deeply
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PLATE CCXXIV.
THE ANGEL SHOWING JERUSALEM IN RUINS TO SAINT JOHN.
This very impressive picture is its own description ; but that which, in the Book of Revelation,
the angel is described as showing to Saint John is the new or celestial Jerusalem, not
the ruins of the old or terrestrial.
PLATE CCXXV.
THE LIGHT IN THE WOOD.
When lost by night in the forest with his little brothers, Hop o’ my Thumb climbs to the
top of a high tree, and sees a distant light—the light, as it afterwards proves, of the
ogre’s house. The plate shows us a fine bit of solitary forest.
PLATE CCXXVI.
THE MAIDEN (LA FONTAINE).
A maiden of great beauty, but no less pride, refused suitor after suitor until, finding her
youth departing and her charms decaying, she was glad to accept a rough, unmannerly
boor. The Watteau-like engraving shows the lady in the days of her haughtiness.
PLATE CCXXVII.
CHRIST AND THE TRIBUTE MONEY.
The subject is from Matthew xxii. 15—22, where Jesus, being asked if it was lawful to
pay tribute to Caesar, replied by the celebrated speech, “ Render unto Caesar the thing
which are Caesar’s ; and unto God the things that are God’s.”
PLATE CCXXVI 11.
THE DON’S MISADVENTURE.
While staying at the inn to which allusion has already been made more than once, Don
Quixote is persuaded by the serving-maid, Maritornes, to present himself outside a small
grated window, that his hand may be kissed by a lady who, as Maritornes says, is deeply
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