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... land . It is indeed gilded with corn , and fra- grant with deep grass , but it is not subdued to the plough or to the scythe . It gives at its own free will ; it seems to have nothing wrested from it , nor conquered in it . It is not ...
... land . It is indeed gilded with corn , and fra- grant with deep grass , but it is not subdued to the plough or to the scythe . It gives at its own free will ; it seems to have nothing wrested from it , nor conquered in it . It is not ...
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... lands , the soft wings of the sea angel droop still with dew , and the shadows of their plumes falter on the hills ; strange laughings and glitterings of silver streamlets , born suddenly , and twined about the mossy heights in ...
... lands , the soft wings of the sea angel droop still with dew , and the shadows of their plumes falter on the hills ; strange laughings and glitterings of silver streamlets , born suddenly , and twined about the mossy heights in ...
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... land appear . " We do not , perhaps , often enough consider the deep signification of this sentence . We are too apt to receive it as the description of an event vaster only in its extent , not in its nature , than the compelling of the ...
... land appear . " We do not , perhaps , often enough consider the deep signification of this sentence . We are too apt to receive it as the description of an event vaster only in its extent , not in its nature , than the compelling of the ...
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... land appeared , not in level sands forsaken by the surges , which those surges might again claim for their own ; but in range beyond range of swelling hills and iron rocks , for ever to claim kindred with the firmament , and be ...
... land appeared , not in level sands forsaken by the surges , which those surges might again claim for their own ; but in range beyond range of swelling hills and iron rocks , for ever to claim kindred with the firmament , and be ...
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Readings in Modern Painters John Ruskin. tence , " Let the dry land appear , " we should try to follow the finger of God as it engraved upon the stone tables of the earth the letters and the law of its everlasting form , as gulf by gulf ...
Readings in Modern Painters John Ruskin. tence , " Let the dry land appear , " we should try to follow the finger of God as it engraved upon the stone tables of the earth the letters and the law of its everlasting form , as gulf by gulf ...
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Page 148 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Page 113 - For he is the Lord our God : and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Page 35 - it is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which Nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man, more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him, and teaching him, than in any other of her works, and it is just the part in which we least attend to her.
Page 37 - Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never the same for two moments together; almost human in its passions, almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost divine in its infinity, its appeal to what is immortal in us, is as distinct, as its ministry of chastisement ' or of blessing to what is mortal is essential.
Page 38 - Who saw the dance of the dead clouds where the sunlight left them last night, and the west wind blew them before it like withered leaves? All has passed unregretted as unseen; or if the apathy be ever shaken off even for an instant, it is only by what is gross, or what is extraordinary. And yet it is not in the broad and fierce manifestations of the elemental energies, nor in the clash of the hail, nor the drift of the whirlwind, that the highest characters of the sublime are developed. God is not...
Page 123 - It had been wild weather when I left Rome, and all across the Campagna the clouds were sweeping in sulphurous blue, with a clap of thunder or two, and breaking gleams of sun along the Claudian aqueduct lighting up the infinity of its arches like the bridge of chaos.
Page 137 - Meek creatures! the first mercy of the earth, veiling with hushed softness its dintless rocks; creatures full of pity, covering with strange and tender honor the scarred disgrace of ruin, — laying quiet finger on the trembling stones, to teach them rest.
Page 125 - ... 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 illumine, were seen in fathomless intervals between the solemn and orbed repose of the stone pines, passing to lose themselves in the last, white blinding...
Page 48 - Wait a little longer, and you shall see those scattered mists rallying in the ravines, and floating up towards you, along the winding valleys, till they couch in quiet masses, iridescent with the morning light, upon the broad breasts of the higher hills, whose leagues of massy undulation will melt back and back into that robe of material light, until they fade away, lost in its lustre, to appear again above, in the serene heaven, like a wild, bright, impossible dream, foundationless and inaccessible,...
Page 55 - The hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.