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R. M. Ballantyne Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader A Tale Of The Pacific

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The Great Pacific Is The Scene Of Our Story. On A Beautiful Morning, Many Years Ago, A Little Schooner Might Have Been Seen Floating, Light And Graceful As A Seamew, On The Breast Of The Slumbering Ocean. She Was One Of Those Low, Black-Hulled Vessels, With Raking, Taper Masts, Trimly-Cut Sails, And Elegant Form, Which We Are Accustomed To Associate With The Idea Of A Yacht Or A Pirate. She Might Have Been The Former, As Far As Appearance Went; For The Sails And Deck Were White As Snow, And Every Portion Of Brass And Copper Above Her Water-Line Shone In The Hot Sun With Dazzling Brilliancy. But Pleasure-Seekers Were Not Wont, In Those Days, To Take Such Distant Flights, Or To Venture Into Such Dangerous Seas,--Dangerous Alike From The Savage Character Of The Islanders, And The Numerous Coral Reefs That Lie Hidden A Few Feet Below The Surface Of The Waves. Still Less Probable Did It Seem That The Vessel In Question Could Belong To The Lawless Class Of Craft To Which We Have Referred; For, Although She Had What May Be Styled A Wicked Aspect, And Was Evidently Adapted For Swift Sailing, Neither Large Guns Nor Small Arms Of Any Kind Were Visible. Whatever Her Nature Or Her Object, She Was Reduced, At The Time We Introduce Her To The Reader, To A State Of Inaction By The Dead Calm Which Prevailed. The Sea Resembled A Sheet Of Clear Glass. Not A Cloud Broke The Softness Of The Sky, In Which The Sun Glowed Hotter And Hotter As It Rose Towards The Zenith. The Sails Of The Schooner Hung Idly From The Yards; Her Reflected Image Was Distorted, But Scarcely Broken, By The Long, Gentle Swell; Her Crew, With The Exception Of The Watch, Were Asleep Either On Deck Or Down Below; And So Deep Was The Universal Silence, That, As The Vessel Rose And Fell With A Slow, Quiet Motion, The Pattering Of The Reef-Points On Her Sails Forcibly Attracted The Listener'S Attention, As Does The Ticking Of A Clock In The Deep Silence Of Night. A Few Sea-Birds Rested On The Water, As If In The Enjoyment Of The Profound Peace That Reigned Around; And Far Away On The Horizon Might Be Seen The Tops Of The Palm Trees That Grow On One Of Those Coral Islands Which Lie Scattered In Thousands, Like Beautiful Gems, On The Surface Of That Bright Blue Sea. [mehr]

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William Morris The Wood Beyond The World (Fiscle Part-9)

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Awhile Ago There Was A Young Man Dwelling In A Great And Goodly City By The Sea Which Had [mehr]

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John Ruskin Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving

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John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was the leading English art critic of the Victorian era, also an art patron, draughtsman, watercolourist, a prominent social thinker and philanthropist. He wrote on subjects ranging from geology to architecture, myth to ornithology, literature to education, and botany to political economy. His writing styles and literary forms were equally varied. Ruskin penned essays and treatises, poetry and lectures, travel guides and manuals, letters and even a fairy tale. The elaborate style that characterised his earliest writing on art was later superseded by a preference for plainer language designed to communicate his ideas more effectively. [mehr]

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John Ruskin Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving

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R. M. Ballantyne Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific

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R. M. Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 1894) was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who [mehr]

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R. M. Ballantyne Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader A Tale of the Pacific

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Robert Michael Ballantyne (24 April 1825 – 8 February 1894) was a Scottish author of juvenile fiction who wrote [mehr]

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John S. Springer Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure.

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John McKendree Springer (7 September 1873 – 2 December 1963) was an American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church and The Methodist Church, elected in 1936.[1] He was also notable as a pioneering missionary instrumental in developing Methodism on the continent of Africa.Springer was born in Cataract, Wisconsin, the son of the Rev. Henry Martin Springer, and the grandson of the Rev. Elihu Springer, both M.E. Preachers. Elihu Springer was a soldier in the American Indian Wars. Henry Springer served four years with the Colorado Cavalry during the American Civil War. He is buried at the United Methodist mission station in Mulungwishi, Katanga Province, DRC. His grave marker indicates that he died on December 1, 1963. [mehr]

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F. Morley Fletcher Wood-Block Printing A Description of the Craft of Woodcutting and Colour Printing Based on the Japanese Practice

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Frank Morley Fletcher (1866–1950)[1] was a British painter and printmaker known primarily for his role in introducing Japanese [mehr]

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John Ruskin Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston

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T. Martin Wood Whistler

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Whistler written by T. Martin Wood. Masterpieces in colour edited by T. Leman Hare. Published in 1834-1903 and now republish in ePub file. At the time when Rossetti and his circle were foregathering chiefly at Rossetti’s house, quiet Chelsea scarcely knew how daily were associations added which will always cluster round her name. Whistler’s share in those associations is very large, and he has left in his paintings the memory of many a night, as he returned beside the river. Before Whistler painted it, night was more opaque than it is now. It had been viewed only through the window of tradition. It was left for a man of the world coming out of an artificial London room to paint its stillness, and also to show us that we ourselves had made night more beautiful, with ghostly silver and gold; and to tell us that the dark bridges that sweep into it do not interrupt—that we cannot interrupt, the music of nature. [mehr]

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