Edward Hopper paintings

Edward Hopper paintings
Edgar Degas paintings
train of armed men, some noble dameEscorting (so their scatter’d words discover’d,As unperceived I hung upon their rear),Are close at hand, and mean to pass the nightWithin the castle. –Orra: a Tragedy.–
The travellers had now reached the verge of the wooded country, and were about to plunge into its recesses, held dangerous at that time from the number of outlaws whom oppression and poverty had driven to despair, and who occupied the forests in such large bands as could easily bid defiance to the feeble police of the period. From these rovers, however, notwithstanding the lateness of the hour, Cedric and Athelstane accounted themselves secure, as they had in attendance ten servants, besides Wamba and Gurth, whose aid could not be counted upon, the one being a jester and the other a captive. It may be added, that in travelling thus late through the forest, Cedric and Athelstane relied on their