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Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1905)
PreRaphaelitism and the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood - 1905 Author:William Holman Hunt Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV Or from the bridge I lean'd to hear The mill dam rushing down with noise, And sec the minnows everywhere In crystal eddies glance and poise. . . . ... more » I loved the brimming wave that swam Through quiet meadows round the mill, The sleepy pool above the dam, The pool beneath it never still, The meal-sacks on the whiten'd floor, The dark round of the dripping wheel, The very air about the door Made misty with the floating meal. Miller's Daughter, Tennyson. Give me quickly the cold water flowing forth from the Lake of Memory.—Orphic Tablets, Gilbert Murray. Ewell—Ye well—in Surrey, at the time I speak of, had a true claim to be a home of repose. The fount in its slab-formed cradle at the entrance of the village was, in factj only the public appearance of the newly-born stream, the true fans being on the left side of the road hidden by a garden wall. And yet when the pedestrian, a-dust, athirst, and sun-dazed, stepped within the surrounding rails of the crystal well, his eyes rested on the refreshing waters ere he raised them to his parched lips. The wide earth's thank-offering of a spring of water outpouring in its sparkling purity is ever a delight to the soul of man. The village itself had no sense of modern bustling or hurry; all was arranged spaciously, all workexecuted with deliberation, and with such unostentation that externally there was but little to distinguish the chemist's shop from the baker's, or any other tradesman's house from that of his neighbour. On the outskirts of the trading centre there were gentlemen's homes and farmsteads ; and Nonsuch Park, of Elizabethan fame, still gave a stately grace farther afield, although the quaint palace had long since gone from sight. Banstead and A. Hugtui. EWELL SPRING. Epsom Downs formed the horizo...« less