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... Modern Painters ... - Página 207por John Ruskin - 1878Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1889 - 512 páginas
...and white reminiscences of the old masters. " The chasm of sky above my head Is Heaven's profoundest azure. No domain For fickle, short-lived clouds, to...his American Notes, I remember Dickens notices the some truth, describing himself as lying drowsily on the barge deck, looking not at, but through the... | |
| 1889 - 684 páginas
...Mr. Ruskin uses to illustrate this fact:— ': 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 abyts In which the everlasting stars abide, And whose soft gloom and boundless depth, might tempt The... | |
| John Ruskin - 1891 - 452 páginas
...in the second book of the Excursion : — " 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 ubyu In which the everlasting stars abide, And whose soft gloom, and boundless depth, might tempt The... | |
| John Ruskin - 1894 - 360 páginas
...in the second book of the Excursion : — " 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 abytt In which the everlasting stars abide. And whose soft gloom, and boundless depth, might tempt... | |
| Vida Dutton Scudder - 1895 - 368 páginas
...possesses us as we breathe the air of his poems. " The chasm of sky above my head Is heaven's prof oundest azure : no domain For fickle, short-lived clouds to occupy Or to pass through ; but rather an abyss 1 Ode [written on a blank page before Beaumont and Fletcher's tragi-comedy, The Fair Maid of the Inn].... | |
| Vida Dutton Scudder - 1895 - 349 páginas
...possesses us as we breathe the air of his poems. " 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 1 Ode [written on a blank page before Beaumont and Fletcher's tragi-comedy, The Fair Maid of the Inn].... | |
| Vida Dutton Scudder - 1895 - 368 páginas
...[written on a blank page before Beaumont and Fletcher's tragi-comedy, The Fair Maid of the Inn]. Wherein the everlasting stars abide, And whose soft gloom and boundless depth might tempt The curious eye to dwell on them by day." * Wordsworth gives us, in noble lines, the summary of the themes on which his... | |
| John Ruskin - 1903 - 824 páginas
...given in the second 1 book of the Excursion : " 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 ahyxs In which the everlasting stars abide, And whose soft gloom, and boundless depth, might tempt... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1904 - 676 páginas
...lapse ; and lo ! while in this strait I stand, the chasm of sky above my head Is heaven's profoundest azure ; no domain For fickle, short-lived clouds to...might tempt The curious eye to look for them by day. .Hail Contemplation ! from the stately towers, Reared by the industrious hand of human art To lift... | |
| William Angus Knight - 1904 - 492 páginas
...:—and lo ! while in this strait I stand—the chasm of sky above my head Is heaven's profoundest azure ; no domain For fickle, short-lived clouds to...abide ; And whose soft gloom, and boundless depth, prevails. might tempt The curious eye to look for them by day. 1 A pause ensued ; and with minuter... | |
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