 | 1847 - 610 sivua
...altars. The blue ridge of the Alban mount lifts itself against a solemn space of green, clear, quict sky. Watch-towers of dark clouds stand stedfastly...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... | |
 | Susan Fenimore Cooper - 1854 - 482 sivua
...clear, quiet eky. Watch-towers of dark clouds stand steadfastly along the promontories of the Apennines. From the plain to the mountains, the shattered aqueducts,...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 sivua
...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,...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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1857 - 500 sivua
...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,...we will reduce the multitudinous precipices of the Apennines to four sugar-loaves. Secondly, we will remove the Alban Mount, and put a large dust-heap... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 sivua
...clear, quiet sky. Watchtowers of dark clouds stand steadfastly along the promontories of the Apennines. From the plain to the mountains, the shattered aqueducts,...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,... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1888 - 620 sivua
...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,...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 sivua
...clear, quiet sky. Watch-towers of dark clouds stand stedfastly along the promontories of the Apennines. From the plain to the mountains, the shattered aqueducts,...funeral mourners, passing from a nation's grave.' — Ib., vol. i., Preface, pp. xxxvii, xxxviii. And, in a grander style than either, combining truth... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 sivua
...quiet, sky. Watch-towers of dark clouds stand steadfastly along the promontories of the Apennines. From the plain to the mountains, the shattered aqueducts,...of funeral mourners, passing from a nation's grave. J. RUSKIN 449. THE OCEAN DRIED UP. But if we should suppose the ocean dry, and that we looked down... | |
 | 1867 - 484 sivua
...clear, quiet sky. Watch towers of dark cloud stand steadfastly along the promontories of the Apenniaes. From the plain to the mountains, the shattered aqueducts,...funeral mourners, passing from a nation's grave." The railway station at Rome is at the east end of the city, on the shoulder of the Viminal Hill. The... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 sivua
...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,...of funeral mourners, passing from a nation's grave. — MP i. Pref. to 2nd Ed. SOUTH ITALY. — We are accustomed to hear the south of Italy spoken of... | |
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... veiling its spectral wrecks of massy 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... 
