Modern Painters ...J. Wiley & sons, 1879 |
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Página 123
... flakes , not ir- regularly and contortedly , like the crystallines , but straightly , so as to leave a silky lustre on the sides of the frag- ments , as in roofing slate ; and separating with great ease , yield- ing to a slight pressure ...
... flakes , not ir- regularly and contortedly , like the crystallines , but straightly , so as to leave a silky lustre on the sides of the frag- ments , as in roofing slate ; and separating with great ease , yield- ing to a slight pressure ...
Página 124
... flakes trembling down , one sees not why , into more total dissolution , leaving a few jagged teeth , like the edges of knives eaten away by vinegar , projecting through the half - dislodged mass from the inner rock , keen enough to cut ...
... flakes trembling down , one sees not why , into more total dissolution , leaving a few jagged teeth , like the edges of knives eaten away by vinegar , projecting through the half - dislodged mass from the inner rock , keen enough to cut ...
Página 128
... flakes , but rarely to the extent in which such action takes place in other rocks ; and the most delicate sculptures , if executed in good marble , will remain for ages undeteriorated . Finally , § 3. Quarries of marble are , however ...
... flakes , but rarely to the extent in which such action takes place in other rocks ; and the most delicate sculptures , if executed in good marble , will remain for ages undeteriorated . Finally , § 3. Quarries of marble are , however ...
Página 129
... flakes . As , however , the slaty and compact crystallines , so also the slaty and compact co- herents pass into each other by subtle gradations , and present many intermediate conditions , very obscure and indefinable . § 5. I said ...
... flakes . As , however , the slaty and compact crystallines , so also the slaty and compact co- herents pass into each other by subtle gradations , and present many intermediate conditions , very obscure and indefinable . § 5. I said ...
Página 134
... flakes and fragments of the night , stayed in their solemn squares in the midst of all the rosy bendings of the orchard boughs , and yellow effulgence of the harvest , and tracing themselves in black network and motionless fringes ...
... flakes and fragments of the night , stayed in their solemn squares in the midst of all the rosy bendings of the orchard boughs , and yellow effulgence of the harvest , and tracing themselves in black network and motionless fringes ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Aiguille Albert Durer Alps appear artist bank beauty beds blue broken Chamouni chapter character Charmoz chlorite cleavage cliff clouds color composed contour crest curvature curves daguerreotype dark débris drawing earth edge examine expression fact Faido fall farther feeling feet flakes Fribourg give glacier gneiss granite grey heaven hills human imagination J. M. W. Turner kind landscape less light limestone lines look lower lowland Martigny Martin Schöngauer mass Matterhorn mica mind Mont Blanc moun mountain mystery nature nearly never noble observe outline paint painters Paul Veronese peaks perfect pine Plate Pre-Raphaelitism precipice purple ravines reader Rembrandt ridge rock round scene scenery seen shade shadows side slaty crystallines slope soft steep stones straight stream structure substance summit supposed Switzerland tain things tion Titian torrent trees true truth Turner Turnerian Valais valley waves whole
Passagens conhecidas
Página 53 - She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.
Página 371 - In these two princely boys! They are as gentle As zephyrs, blowing below the violet, Not wagging his sweet head: and yet as rough, Their royal blood enchafd, as the rud'st wind, That by the top doth take the mountain pine, And make him stoop to the vale.
Página 84 - The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
Página 316 - For he is the Lord our God : and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Página 363 - Whilst summer lasts, and I live here, Fidele, I'll sweeten thy sad grave: Thou shalt not lack The flower, that's like thy face, pale primrose; nor The azur'd hare-bell, like thy veins; no, nor The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Out-sweeten'd not thy breath...
Página 369 - Frascati villa with its bath, So, let the blue lump poise between my knees, Like God the Father's globe on both His hands Ye worship in the Jesu Church so gay, For Gandolf shall not choose but see and burst! Swift as a weaver's shuttle fleet our years: Man goeth to the grave, and where is he?
Página 369 - Ready to twitch the Nymph's last garment off, And Moses with the tables . . . but I know Ye mark me not! What do they whisper thee, Child of my bowels, Anselm?
Página 53 - Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, they were stronger than lions. Ye daughters of Israel, weep over Saul, who clothed you in scarlet, with other delights, who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel.
Página 88 - Again, ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oaths : but I say unto you, Swear not at all : neither by heaven ; for it is God's throne : nor by the earth ; for it is his footstool...
Página 316 - For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field : And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.