5. "From the
fair sheepfold, where a lamb I slumbered." Longfellow's tr.
[122] Allusions to pictures by Turner, The Garden of the
Hesperides, and The Meuse: Orange-Merchantman going to pieces on
the Bar.
[123] The pictures referred to are: The Death of Nelson, The Battle
of Trafalgar, and The Fighting Temeraire being towed to its Last
Berth (see cut). The first and third are in the National Gallery,
London.
[124] _Matthew_ xxiii, 14.
[125] Santa Maria della Salute, a church conspicuously situated at
the junction of the Grand Canal and the Giudecca.
[126] _Liber Studiorum_. "Interior of a church." It is worthy of
remark that Giorgione and Titian are always delighted to have an
opportunity of drawing priests. The English Church may, perhaps,
accept it as matter of congratulation that this is the only
instance in which Turner drew a clergyman. [Ruskin.]
[127] 1785.
[128] Wolsey's famous palace, twelve miles from London.
[129] I do not mean that this is his first acquaintance with the
country, but the first impressive and touching one, after his mind
was formed. The earliest sketches I found in the National
Collection are at Clifton and Bristol; the next, at Oxford.
[Ruskin.]
[130] The reference is to the two famous ruined abbeys of
Yorkshire--Whitby and Bolton.
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