speed painting collection

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“feathered fairies perpetually weaving their aerial ballet-dance about the flowers”



"The pious bird with the scarlet breast, our little English Robin; the bird that comes

about our doors when autumn-winds are sobbing?"



"Diamond black to end of toe, thy counterpoint the crystal snow."



"Lo--a black line of birds in wavering thread bore him the greetings of the deathless

dead"



"curving and crossing each other so as to form geometrical figures unlike anything

in nature"




in nature"



"The forest folk peep from their holes"



“Always groomed to tip of feather, calm and trim in every weather”



"when balanced before a flower the swift motion of the wings obliterates their form,

making them seem like a mist encircling the body; yet it is precisely this formless cloud

on which the glittering body hangs suspended, which contributes most to give the

humming-bird its wonderful sprite-like or extra-natural appearance."



"But the nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out

of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not

ceased."



“These I will pass by, but not those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble

forth their curious ditties with which nature has furnished them to the shame of

art.”





art.”

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