Modern Painters ...: pt. 6. Of leaf beauty. pt 7. Of cloud beauty. pt. 8-9. Of ideas of relationJ. Wiley & sons, 1879 |
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... flowers , we say . the flowers are always striving to grow wherever we suffer them ; and the fairer , the closer . There may indeed have been a Fall of Flowers , as a Fall of Man ; but assuredly creatures such as we are can now fancy ...
... flowers , we say . the flowers are always striving to grow wherever we suffer them ; and the fairer , the closer . There may indeed have been a Fall of Flowers , as a Fall of Man ; but assuredly creatures such as we are can now fancy ...
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... flowers and trees , which man was at first appointed to keep , were intended to render to him in return for his care ; and the services they still render to him , as far as he allows their influence , or fulfils his own task towards ...
... flowers and trees , which man was at first appointed to keep , were intended to render to him in return for his care ; and the services they still render to him , as far as he allows their influence , or fulfils his own task towards ...
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... flowers tossing above the helmets , and glowing between the lowered lances . For in like manner the whole of Nature only shone hitherto for man between the tossing of helmet - crests ; and sometimes I cannot but think of the trees of ...
... flowers tossing above the helmets , and glowing between the lowered lances . For in like manner the whole of Nature only shone hitherto for man between the tossing of helmet - crests ; and sometimes I cannot but think of the trees of ...
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... flowers . " If , then , we took him to a birch - wood , and showed him that catkins were flowers , as well as cherry - blossoms , he might , with a little help , reach so far as to divide all flowers into two classes ; one , those that ...
... flowers . " If , then , we took him to a birch - wood , and showed him that catkins were flowers , as well as cherry - blossoms , he might , with a little help , reach so far as to divide all flowers into two classes ; one , those that ...
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... flower ? or may it some day have incal- culable pomp of leaves and unmeasured treasure of flowers ? Will it rise only to the height of a man - as an ear of corn - and perish like a man ; or will it spread its boughs to the sea and ...
... flower ? or may it some day have incal- culable pomp of leaves and unmeasured treasure of flowers ? Will it rise only to the height of a man - as an ear of corn - and perish like a man ; or will it spread its boughs to the sea and ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Albert of Nuremberg Aristophanes asceticism beauty blue bough branches buds called Ceto chapter character clouds color composition Correggio Covent Garden curves dark death delight dragon drawing Durer earth engraving Erytheia evil expression faith fall farther feeling figure flowers Geryon Giorgione give golden Gorgons grace Greek ground hand heart heaven Hesiod Hesperides human kind labor landscape leaf leaves less light lines look Madonna meaning Medusa mind mountain nature nearly Nereus never noble painted painter partly passion perfect perhaps person Phorcys picture piece pine Pitti Palace Plate rain reader respecting rock Schaffhausen seen sense shade shoot side sketches sorrow soul spirit spray stem strange strength suppose things thought tion Titian trees true truth Turner Typhon Vandyck vapor Venetian Veronese Veronese's vulgar wholly wind word
Passagens conhecidas
Página 287 - No foulness, nor tumult, in those tremulous streets, that filled, or fell, beneath the moon ; but rippled music of majestic change, or thrilling silence. No weak walls could rise above them ; no low-roofed cottage, nor straw-built shed. Only the strength as of rock, and the finished setting of stones most precious. And around them, far as the eye could reach, still the soft moving of stainless waters, proudly pure ; as not the flower, so neither the thorn nor the thistle, could grow in the glancing...
Página 100 - Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass, — the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every fibre into fitful brightness and glossy traverses of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace.
Página 327 - There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough : The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.
Página 76 - They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble, for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.
Página 209 - For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same : but the dregs thereof, all the •wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
Página 82 - And in the midst of this wide quietness A rosy sanctuary will I dress With the wreath'd trellis of a working brain, With buds, and bells, and stars without a name, With all the gardener Fancy e'er could feign, Who breeding flowers, will never breed the same...
Página 156 - The highest and first law of the universe — and the other name of life, is, therefore, " help." The other name of death is " separation." Government and co-operation are in all things and eternally the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, eternally, and in all things, the laws of death.
Página 82 - Yes, I will be thy priest, and build a fane In some untrodden region of my mind...
Página 231 - I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now. Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth.
Página 310 - With matchlesse eares deformed and distort, Fild with false rumors and seditious trouble, Bred in assemblies of the vulgar sort, That still are led with every light report: And as her eares, so eke her feet were odde, And much unlike ; th' one long, the other short, And both misplast; that, when th