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Everything may be expected of these formidable engines of war,
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Investigator received the £5,000 prize for the discovery of the Northwest Passage and was knighted. Famous English books of the year were Robert Browning's
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Men and Women, Charles Kingsley's
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Westward Ho! and George Henry Lewes'
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Life of Goethe.
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Shirley,
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Villette and the celebrated
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Jane Eyre. At the same time her sister, Emily Jane, who published under the name of Ellis Bell, won fame by her novel
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Wuthering Heights.
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Paysage Intime, and follower and modifier of the new realistic schools under the lead of Courbet, exhibited his
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Souvenir de Marcoussy,
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Ode to Superstition and
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The Pleasures of Memory. The death of his father in 1793 left him in the possession of an ample fortune, and he lost no time in retiring from active business. In 1798 he published
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The Epistle to a Friend and other poems. During the early part of the Nineteenth Century, Rogers figured in the foremost rank of the literary and artistic society in London, where he went by the name of
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The Banker Bard of St. James's Place. In 1812 he brought out an epic on
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The Voyage of Columbus, which met with indifferent success. This was followed by
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Jacqueline and
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Human Life. His last and largest publication was his descriptive poem
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Italy, brought out in 1822. Rogers devoted the rest of his literary life to the publication of exquisitely illustrated editions of his
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Italy and his
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Poems. Shortly after Rogers' death a collection of his witty sayings was published under the title of
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Table Talk.
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Jemmapes, Hanau, Montmirail, and Valmy. In 1812 he received his first important commission from King Jerome of Westphalia, and in 1813 another from Empress Marie Louise. In 1814, Horace Vernet, with his father and Géricault, fought on the Barrière de Clichy, and for his gallant conduct there received the decoration of the Legion of Honor from the hands of Napoleon. After the Restoration, Vernet achieved a great success by his
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Battle of Torlosa, which was purchased for 6,000 francs for the Maison du Roi. At the Salon of 1819 Vernet contested the field with Géricault and Ingres, whose
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Medusa and
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Odalisque were the success of the season. By his popular lithographs of Napoleonic scenes, Vernet so jeopardized his interests at Court that it was thought best for him to transfer his studio from Paris to Rome. On his return from there in 1822 he painted his masterpiece,
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The Defence of the Barrier of Clichy, for which Odiot paid 4,000 francs. It was presented to the Chamber of Peers, from which it was transferred subsequently to the Gallery of the Louvre. Thenceforward Vernet's pictures, the first of which had sold for a few hundred francs, commanded ever higher prices. For Avignon, his ancestral home, Horace Vernet painted
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Mazeppa Pursued by Wolves, a picture which was injured by a sabre stroke in the artist's studio. After his election to the Institute, Vernet changed the style of his subjects, charging staggering prices. For a ceiling fresco in the Museum of Charles X. he received 17,910 francs; for
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Phillip Augustus Before Bovines, now at Versailles, 24,775 francs; for
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The Battle of Fontenoy, 30,000 francs. Still these pictures were scarcely up to the standard of the
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Barrier of Clichy,