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| David Cox Rhyl Sands ca. 1854 oil on canvas Tate Britain |
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| Henry Herbert La Thangue Farm near Horsey, Norfolk 1885 oil on board Canterbury Museums and Galleries, Kent |
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| James Paterson Moonrise, Moniaive 1886 oil on canvas Lillie Art Gallery, Glasgow |
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| Paul Signac La route Pontoise (L'embranchement de Bois Colombes) 1886 oil on canvas Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire |
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| Charles Conder Yport, Normandy 1892 oil on canvas York City Art Gallery |
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| Alfred Sisley Storr Rock, Lady’s Cove, Le Soir 1897 oil on canvas National Museum Cardiff, Wales |
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| John Lavery The Bridge at Grès 1901 oil on canvas Ulster Museum, Belfast |
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| Pierre Bonnard Landscape 1902 oil on panel Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
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| George Clausen The Village at Night 1903 oil on canvas Lotherton Hall, Leeds, Yorkshire |
Young Men of Sidon (A.D. 400)
The actor they had brought to entertain them
also recited several choice epigrams.
The drawing room opened out on the garden
and it had a light fragrance of flowers
that mingled with the fragrance
of the five perfumed young Sidonians.
They read Meleager, and Crinagoras, and Rhianos.
But when the actor had recited,
"Here lies the Athenian Aeschylus son of Euphorion" –
(stressing perhaps more than necessary
the words "famous for his valor," the "sacred Marathonian grove"),
a spirited young man, a fanatic of letters,
leaped up at once and shouted,
"Oh, that quatrain does not please me.
Somehow such phrases seem to betray cowardice.
Give – I say – all your strength to your work,
all your care, and again – remember your work
in your time of trial, or when your hour is near.
This is what I expect and demand of you.
And not to dismiss entirely from your mind
the brilliant Word of Tragedy –
that Agamemnon, that remarkable Prometheus,
those presentations of Orestes, Cassandra,
The Seven Against Thebes – and as a reminder,
only note that in the ranks of soldiers,
among the masses, you too fought Datis and Artaphernes."
– C.P. Cavafy (1920), translated by Rae Dalven (1961)
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| Maximilien Luce Spring, Trees in a Landscape 1905 oil on board National Trust, Brodie Castle, Moray, Scotland |
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| Thomas Corsan Morton Sunny Woodlands ca. 1910 oil on canvas Kirkcaldy Galleries, Fife, Scotland |
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| Mark Gertler The Pond 1917 oil on canvas Government Art Collection, London |
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| Arthur Hacker Daisies at Burnham ca. 1918 oil on board Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries |
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| Thomas Cooper Gotch The Orchard 1920 oil on canvas Alfred East Art Gallery, Kettering, Northamptonshire |
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| Ambrose McEvoy The Thames from the Artist's House in Grosvenor Road ca. 1920 oil on canvas Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford, Yorkshire |