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Glaucus; Or, The Wonders of the Shore
·
Charles Kingsley
127
οὐτ’
ἐν
θέρει,
οὐτ’
ἐν
ὁπώρῃ.
Those
who
have
never
seen
one
of
them
can
never
imagine
(and
neither
Mr.
Gosse’s
pencil
nor
my
clumsy
words
can
ever
describe
to
them)
the
gorgeous
colouring
and
the
grace
and
delicacy
of
form
which
these
subaqueous
landscapes
exhibit.
As
for
colouring,—
the
only
bit
of
colour
which
I
can
remember
even
faintly
resembling
them
(for
though
Correggio’s
Magdalene
may
rival
them
in
greens
and
blues,
yet
even
he
has
no
such
crimsons
and
purples)
is
the
Adoration
of
the
Shepherds,
by
that
“prince
of
colorists”—
Palma
Vecchio,
which
hangs
on
the
left-hand
side
of
Lord
Ellesmere’s
great
gallery.
But
as
for
the
forms,—
where
shall
we
see
their
like?
Where,
amid
miniature
forests
as
fantastic
as
those
of
the
tropics,
animals
whose
shapes
outvie
the
wildest
dreams
of
the
old
German
ghost
painters
which
cover
the
walls
of
the
galleries
of
Brussels
or
Antwerp?
And
yet
the
uncouthest
has
some
quaint
beauty
of
its
own,
while
most—
the
star-fishes
and
anemones,
for
example—
are
nothing
but
beauty.
The
brilliant
plates
in
Mr.
Gosse’s
“Aquarium”
give,
after
all,
but
a
meagre
picture
of
the
reality,
as
it
may
be
seen
in
the
tank-house
at
the
Zoological
Gardens;
and
as
it
may
be
seen
also,
by
anyone
who
will
follow
carefully
the
directions
given
at
the
end
of
his
book,
stock
a
glass
vase
with
such
common
things
as
he
may
find
in
an
hour’s
search
at
low
tide,
and
so
have
an
opportunity
of
seeing
how
truly
Mr.
Gosse
says,
in
his
valuable
preface,
that—
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
