That Quiet Earth

I wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth. //
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Thomas Gainsborough, Mr and Mrs William Hallett (‘The Morning Walk’) (detail), 1785

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Julia and Herbert Duckworth, photographed by Oscar Rejlander

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Illustration by John Millais of Coleridge’s ‘Love’:
All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame

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Gustave Doré, David and Jonathan

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Frederic Leighton, The Painter’s Honeymoon (detail)

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Joseph Wright of Derby, Experiment on a Bird in an Air Pump (detail), c. 1768

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