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Thoughts and emotions which never perhaps were in the mind of the artist, never were anticipated, never were intended by him — may be strongly suggested by his work. This is an important part of the morals of art, which we must never lose sight of. Art is not only for pleasure and profit, but for good and for evil.

Anna Brownell Jameson

I confess to you, dear Ottilie, that I do not like the idea of going to you with my health so broken as it is now. You are also an invalid. Must we lie on two sofas and look at each other? — tho' this would be better than nothing, and better than to be separated for more years, till life ebbs away and leaves our best hopes stranded like wrecks on the shore.

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Work in some form or other is the appointed lot of all...

Anna Brownell Jameson

It seems to me that we can find a similitude for everything else, but Venice is like nothing else — Venice the beautiful, the wonderful!

Anna Brownell Jameson

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, — or, it may be, religion.

Anna Brownell Jameson

As the rolling stone gathers no moss, so the roving heart gathers no affections.

Anna Brownell Jameson

Anna Brownell Jameson

Anna Brownell Jameson

Born: May 19, 1794

Died: March 17, 1860 (aged 65)

Bio: Anna Brownell Jameson was a British writer.

Known for:

Winter studies and summer rambles in Canada (1838)
Shakespeare's heroines
Sacred and legendary art (1848)
The Diary of an Ennuyée (1826)

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