Download or read book Half-Hours of Blind Man's Holiday, Or Summer and Winter Sketches in Black and White, Vol. 1 of 2 (Classic Reprint) written by W. W. Fenn and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Half-Hours of Blind Man's Holiday, or Summer and Winter Sketches in Black and White, Vol. 1 of 2 Fourteen years ago a very puzzling problem was put before me, and in rather a startling fashion. Up to the age of five-and-thirty life had been a pleasant happy thing enough - I enjoyed it, in fact. I was a landscape-painter, and in bright summer weather, when I could wander at will by mountain-side or riverbank, by 'the melancholy marge of some neglected sea, ' or in the midst of yellow cornfields and shady lanes, and could set up my easel in the air whenever it pleased me, carrying off from it more or less successful work, with an equal yield of profit and pleasure, I did not acknowledge to myself that I dwelt in 'a vale of tears.' But there came a day when literally to me there was 'no more splendour in the grass or glory in the flower;' I became blind, and for a time was more dependent than the veriest child upon the care and guidance of others. My forced inaction was torture to me. What could I do? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.