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The blue ridge of the Alban mount lifts itself against a solemn space of green,
clear, quiet sky. Watch-towers of dark clouds stand steadfastly along the
promontories of the Apennines. From the plain to the mountains, the shattered
aqueducts, ...
The blue ridge of the Alban mount lifts itself against a solemn space of green,
clear, quiet sky. Watch-towers of dark clouds stand steadfastly along the
promontories of the Apennines. From the plain to the mountains, the shattered
aqueducts, ...
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Here the exquisite execution of the glossy and crisp hair of the dog, the bright
sharp touching of the green bough beside it, the clear painting of the wood of the
coffin and the folds of the blanket, are language — language clear and
expressive ...
Here the exquisite execution of the glossy and crisp hair of the dog, the bright
sharp touching of the green bough beside it, the clear painting of the wood of the
coffin and the folds of the blanket, are language — language clear and
expressive ...
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Rembrandt, are ostentatious exhibitions of the artist,s power of speech, the clear
and vigorous elocution of useless and senseless words : while the early efforts of
Cimabue and Giotto are the burning messages of prophecy, delivered by the.
Rembrandt, are ostentatious exhibitions of the artist,s power of speech, the clear
and vigorous elocution of useless and senseless words : while the early efforts of
Cimabue and Giotto are the burning messages of prophecy, delivered by the.
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I shall look only for truth ; bare, clear, downright statement of facts ; showing in
each particular, as far as I am able, what the truth of nature is, and then seeking
for the plain expression of it, and for that alone. And I shall thus endeavor, totally
...
I shall look only for truth ; bare, clear, downright statement of facts ; showing in
each particular, as far as I am able, what the truth of nature is, and then seeking
for the plain expression of it, and for that alone. And I shall thus endeavor, totally
...
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... clear sense of the word, unseen. And numbers of men being pre-occupied with
business or care of some description, totally unconnected with the impressions of
sight, SEC. I. CH. II.] TRUTH NOT EASILY DISCERNED. 51.
... clear sense of the word, unseen. And numbers of men being pre-occupied with
business or care of some description, totally unconnected with the impressions of
sight, SEC. I. CH. II.] TRUTH NOT EASILY DISCERNED. 51.
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appear artist beauty become believe blue body boughs cause Chapter character Claude clear clouds color complete considered curves dark delicate dependent direction distance distinct drawing edge effect equally especially evidence example excellence execution expression fact fall false feeling foliage foreground give given gray greater green ground hand highest hills ideas imitation important impossible impression instance Italy kind knowledge landscape leaves less light lines look marked mass masters means mind mountain nature necessary never object observed once outline painter painting particular passages perfect perhaps picture piece pleasure present principles pure qualities receive reflection rendered respect rock seen separate shade shadow side space speak surface thing thought tion tone touch trees true truth Turner waves whole
Passagens conhecidas
Página 265 - ... the whole heaven — one scarlet canopy, — is interwoven with a roof of waving flame, and tossing-, vault beyond vault, as with the drifted wings of many companies of angels : and then, when you can look no more for gladness, and when you are bowed down with fear and love of the Maker and Doer of this, tell me who has best delivered this His message unto men ! ' Alps at Daybreak (Itogers's Poems :) Delphi, and various vignettes.
Página 91 - Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Página 207 - I stand, the chasm of sky above my head Is heaven's profoundest azure ; no domain For fickle, short-lived clouds to occupy, Or to pass through ; but rather an abyss In which the everlasting stars abide ; And whose soft gloom, and boundless depth, might tempt The curious eye to look for them by day.
Página 51 - A sufficient impulse there may be on the organ; but it not reaching the observation of the mind, there follows no perception: and though the motion that uses to produce the idea of sound be made in the ear, yet no sound is heard.
Página 51 - This is certain, that whatever alterations are made in the body, if they reach not the mind; whatever impressions are made on the outward parts, if they are not taken notice of within ; there is no perception. Fire may burn our bodies with no other effect than it does a billet, unless the motion be continued to the brain, and there the sense of heat or idea of pain be produced in the mind, wherein consists actual perception.
Página 156 - ... opens in a cloud at sunset the motionless masses of dark rock — dark, though flushed with scarlet lichen, casting their quiet shadows across its restless radiance, the fountain underneath them filling its marble hollow with blue mist and fitful sound, and, over all, — the multitudinous bars of amber and rose, the sacred clouds that have no darkness, and only exist to...
Página 220 - Attained his western bound; but rays of light — • Now suddenly diverging from the orb Retired behind the mountain tops or veiled By the dense air — shot upwards...
Página 50 - I have to prove to them that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in their philosophy, and that the truth of nature is a part of the truth of God ; to him who does not search it out, darkness, as it is to him who does, infinity.
Página 26 - Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to our moral nature in its purity and perfection.
Página 12 - If I say that the greatest picture is that which conveys to the mind of the spectator the greatest number of the greatest ideas, I have a definition which will include as subjects of comparison every pleasure which art is capable of conveying.
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | Modern Painters ... Volume 1 de Modern Painters, John Ruskin |
| Autor | John Ruskin |
| Editora | J. Wiley & sons, 1878 |
| Original de | Universidade de Virginia |
| Digitalizado | 12 Abr 2008 |
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