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| THE KAPELLBRÜCKE, LUCERNE. FROM A DRAWING BY RUSKIN. |
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| Volume IV—OF MOUNTAIN BEAUTY | ||
| Volume V | { | OF LEAF BEAUTY |
| OF CLOUD BEAUTY | ||
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MODERN PAINTERS.
VOLUME IV.,
CONTAINING
PART V.,
OF MOUNTAIN BEAUTY.
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| The Gates of the Hills. |
PREFACE.
I was in hopes that this volume might have gone its way withoutpreface; but as I look over the sheets, I find in them variousfallings short of old purposes which require a word of explanation.
Of which shortcomings, the chief is the want of reference tothe landscape of the Poussins and Salvator; my original intentionhaving been to give various examples of their mountain-drawing,that it might be compared with Turner's. But theten years intervening between the commencement of this workand its continuation have taught me, among other things, thatLife is shorter and less