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STANFORD LIBRARIES fire - fly from light to darkness in one oscillation , ranging from the fullest prism of solar colour to the coldest greys of twilight , and from the silver tinging of a morning cloud to the lava fire of a volcano ...
STANFORD LIBRARIES fire - fly from light to darkness in one oscillation , ranging from the fullest prism of solar colour to the coldest greys of twilight , and from the silver tinging of a morning cloud to the lava fire of a volcano ...
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Their lights are always transparent ( mere white excepted ) and their shadows sometimes want depth . This is in accordance with the effect of glass - staining , in which transparency may cease with darkness , but never with light .
Their lights are always transparent ( mere white excepted ) and their shadows sometimes want depth . This is in accordance with the effect of glass - staining , in which transparency may cease with darkness , but never with light .
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Van Eyck's high lights were either , in proportion to the scale of picture and breadth of handling , as loaded as these ... preparation of the gradations of drawing in the one , and the daring assumption of massy light in the other .
Van Eyck's high lights were either , in proportion to the scale of picture and breadth of handling , as loaded as these ... preparation of the gradations of drawing in the one , and the daring assumption of massy light in the other .
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Memoirs of Viscountess Sundon Mistress of the Robes | 94 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 82 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1847 |
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