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poetry in a landscape. But her sight was very
short, and she did not wear spectacles, partly
from feminine coquetry, and partly from fear of
looking like the traditional blue stocking, and so
could not take in the details of the surrounding
Nature. If, nevertheless, in some of her works
we find not only very fine pictures of landscape,
its general impression, its soul, so to say, but
also a true rendering of its details, this was owing,
no doubt, more to abstract knowledge than to
personal observation. She was well grounded in
natural history, had helped her husband in
translating Brehm’s ‘Birds,’ and had shared his
studies of palæontology and geology. She had
also had much personal intercourse with the
most distinguished contemporary naturalists.
But, after all, her taste depended very much
on her mood. When in good spirits, the most
uninteresting landscape became beautiful in her
eyes, and when out of humour she was perfectly
indifferent to the finest effects of colour and line.
On the whole, she lacked a just eye for pure
symmetrical form, for harmony, proportion,
colour, and other objective phases of beauty.
Thus, if a person was sympathetic to her, or
possessed some of the qualities she
particularly admired, she would consider him or
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