... four-square, remnants of mighty edifices, not one left upon another, lie upon them to keep them down, A dull purple, poisonous haze stretches level along the desert, veiling its spectral wrecks of massy ruins, on whose rents the red light rests like... Modern Painters - Página xxxviiipor John Ruskin - 1873Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1847 - 610 páginas
...clear, quict sky. Watch-towers of dark clouds stand stedfastly along the promontories of the Appenines. From the plain to the mountains, the shattered aqueducts,...of funeral mourners passing from a nation's grave. Lct us, with Claude, make a few " ideal" alterations in this landscape. First, we will reduce the multitudinous... | |
| 1847 - 610 páginas
...ruins, on whose rents the red light rests like dying fire on defiled altars. The blue ridge of the Alban mount lifts itself against a solemn space of green,...clear, quiet sky. Watch-towers of dark clouds stand stedfastly along the promontories of the Appenines. From the plain to the mountains, the shattered... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 páginas
...altars. The blue ridge of the Alban mount lifts itself against a solemn space of green, clear, quiet eky. Watch-towers of dark clouds stand steadfastly along...of funeral mourners passing from a nation's grave. JOHN BUSKIN. THE WAVE OF LIFE. FROM THE OEUKAK. " Whither, thou turbid wave ? Whither, with so much... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 510 páginas
...ruins, on whose rents the red light rests like dying fire on defiled altars. The blue ridge of the Alban mount lifts itself against a solemn space of green,...of funeral mourners passing from a nation's grave. JOHN KUSKIN. THE WAVE OF LIFE. FROM THE GEKMAN. " Whither, thou turbid wave ? Whither, with so much... | |
| Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1855 - 478 páginas
...ruins, on whose rents the red light rests like dying fire on defiled altars. The blue ridge of the Alban mount lifts itself against a solemn space of green, clear, quiet sky. Wateh-towers of dark clouds stand steadfastly along the promontories of the Apennines. From the plain... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 páginas
...on whose rents the red light rests, like dying fire on defiled altars. The blue ridge of the Alban Mount, lifts itself against a solemn space of green,...of funeral mourners passing from a nation's grave. WATER. Of all inorganic substances, acting in their own proper nature, and without assistance or combination,... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 496 páginas
...on whose rents the red light rests, like dying fire on defiled altars. 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... | |
| Graduated series - 1859 - 462 páginas
...ruins, on whose rents the red lightrests likedying fire on defiled altars. 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... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1888 - 620 páginas
...on whose rents the red light rests, like dying fire on defiled altars. The blue ridge of the Alban Mount lifts itself against a solemn space of green,...funeral mourners, passing from a nation's grave." This is not simply word-painting ; it is poetry ; it is glamour. It VOL. LXXXIIL E differs from mere... | |
| 1862 - 610 páginas
...on whose rents the red light rests, like dying fire on defiled altars. The blue ridge of the Alban Mount lifts itself against a solemn space of green,...clear, quiet sky. Watch-towers of dark clouds stand stedfastly along the promontories of the Apennines. From the plain to the mountains, the shattered... | |
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