Page 25: resist dyeing
Page i: the men who gave new energy
Page ii: A Personal View
Page 1: less agreeable
 Page 6: Skellig
Page 9: copying of books
Page 13: purely pagan people
Page 25: resist dyeing
Page 26: Superstar
Page 27: Charlemadge
Page 32: orderly mountains of stone
Page 34: sitting like an empress
Page 36: unashamedly extravagant
Page 37: irrepressible, irresponsible energy
Page 45: for alan sugar
Page 54: pillar people
Page 65: Castle of Love
Page 67: how to treat women
Page 72: Only artists and birds
Page 73: The Duke at dinner
Page 75: marriage to poverty
Page 82: supreme dramatist of human life
Page 88: external bin area
Page 92: love of opposites
Page 105: of nameless breed
Page 109: fought his way through security
Page 116: once been a beauty
Page 117: the scene has changed
Page 122: alarming young man
Page 132: Raphael loved the girls
Page 133: the great lost paintings of antiquity
Page 138: the character of the northern man
Page 148: inordinately vain
Page 151: something is missing
 Page 156: old fashioned history books
Page 158: intelligent nun
Page 165: great pessimists
Page 160: bad for art
Page 168: the most grandiose piece of town planning
Page 174: Painters were even worse
Page 178: dazzled enlightenment
Page 179: ecstasies should be vividly recorded
Page 193: I am in Holland
Page 198: they have some leisure
Page 200: superfluidity of wealth
Page 201: uncanny realism of the sheep’s head
Page 207: I’ve never had a pedicure
 Page 208: study to be quiet
Page 219: waste of money
Page 235: native good sense of a fox-hunting society
Page 237: it isn’t always easy to tell the difference between Haydn and Mozart
Page 244: the smile of reason
Page 251: gifted hostesses
Page 252: Gilles
Page 254: happiest among the working classes
Page 260: the gentle bourgeoisie
Page 261: Naturally, it killed him
Page 263: Thomas Jefferson
Page 267: no more smiles
Page 269: The Compleat Angler
Page 270: fifty-two different meanings
Page 272: it never occurred to him to admire the scenery
Page 273: Whatever his defects as a human being
Page 276: Man (and Woman) Looking at Mountains
Page 277: The evolutionary development of plants
Page 279: When Doves Cry
Page 282: it was rejected from the Academy
Page 284: But all the time Turner was perfecting
Page 288: another of Mr Turner’s little jokes
Page 292: Rude
Page 297: Woltz
Page 299: Platty Joobs
Page 300: we cannot have one thing without another
Page 303: The history book on the shelf
Page 308: Nature is indifferent
Page 311: He died at the age of thirty-three
Page 316: the noon gun
Page 318: middle-class morality?
Page 321: with Mills and Ovens and Cauldrons
Page 322: the State of the Poor
Page 336: somewhat joyless style
Page 337: factory chimneys in the background
Page 340: influence on Van Gogh
Page 345: the chaos of modern art
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