“It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.”
Letter to Thomas Oldham Barlow (1876), from The Letters of Samuel Palmer, ed. Raymond Lister (Oxford, 1974)
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British landscape painter, etcher and printmaker 1805–1881Related quotes
Source: The Bridge on the Drina (1945), Ch. 17
“The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled.”
“On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore
Which Jews might kiss, and infidels adore.”
Canto II, line 7.
The Rape of the Lock (1712, revised 1714 and 1717)
(16th February 1822) Poetic Sketches, No.6
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
“Think of all that bullshit, the nonsense and non-sequiturs, the self-aggrandisement and self-deception, the boring stupid nonsense, the pathetic attempts to impress or ingratiate, the slow-wittedness, the incomprehension and the incomprehensible, the gland-addled meanderings and general suffocating dullness.”
Source: Culture series, Look to Windward (2000), Chapter 11 “Absence of Gravitas” (p. 245)
(2nd February 1822) Poetic Sketches, No.4
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
