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William Barnes
3 quotes
“The beautiful in nature is the unmarred result of God's first creative or forming will,and ..the beautiful in art is the result of an unmistaken working of man in accordance with the beautiful in nature.”
William Barnes (1801–1886) first seen 1861 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Thoughts on Beauty in Art- Article in MacMillan's Magazine 1861.
“But no. Too soon I voun' my charm abroke. Noo comely soul in white like her— Noo soul a-steppen light like her— An' nwone o' comely height like her— Went by; but all my grief agean awoke.”
William Barnes (1801–1886) said by 1886 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Wind at the Door, from Poets of the English Language, W. H. Auden and Norman Holmes Pearson (1950).
“Since I do miss your vaïce an’ feäce In praÿer at eventide, I’ll praÿ wi’ woone said vaïce vor greäce To goo where you do bide;”
William Barnes (1801–1886) first seen 1879 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Wife a-lost, from Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect (1879).