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away by the next splash of the foam, and the 



glistening granite and green water all pure again 



in vacant wrath. So stayed by him, for ever, the 



Image of the Sea. 



John Ruskin. 



How to Paint It '^^^ '':^ ^c> 



(From MS. Notebooks; trans.) 



T F you wish to represent a tempest properly, 

 consider and set down exactly what are the 

 results when the wind blowing over the face of 

 the sea and of the land lifts and carries with it 

 every thing that is not immovable in the general 

 mass. . . . Let the sea be wild and tempestuous, 

 and between the crests of its waves it should be 

 covered with eddying foam, and the wind should 

 carry the finer spray through the stormy air after 

 the manner of a thick and all-enveloping mist. 

 Of the ships that are there, some you should show 

 with sail rent and the shreds of it flapping in the 

 air in company with the broken halyards, and 

 some of the masts broken and gone by the 

 board, and the vessel itself lying disabled and 

 broken by the fury of the waves, with some of 

 the crew shrieking and clinging to the fragments 

 of the wreck. You should show the clouds, driven 

 by the impetuous winds, hurled against the high 

 mountain tops, and there wreathing and eddying 



