Blind with rain.
Cf. ‘When the chill rain begins at shut of eve
In dull November, and their chancel vault,
The Heaven itself, is blinded throughout night.’
Keats’s Hyperion, II. 36–38.
Lord Byron ... Heaven and Earth. Sc. III.
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[110]. Le Brun. See ante, note to p. [25].
Sebastian Bourdon. French painter and engraver (1616–1671). He was one of the twelve artists who founded the Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1648.
Le Sueur. Eustache Le Sueur (1616–1655), French historical painter, also one of the twelve (see above). He is one of the greatest of French painters, and is often called the French Raphael.