 ... 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...  Frondes Agrestes: Readings in Modern Painters - Page 125by John Ruskin - 1875 - 184 pagesFull view - About this book
 | England - 1843 - 832 pages
...mist and fitful sound, and over all — the multitndinous hars of amher and rose, the sacred clonds that have no darkness, and only exist to illumine, were seen in fathomless intervals hetween the solemn and orhed repose of the stone pines, passing to lose themselves in the last, white,... | |
 | Scotland - 1843 - 1380 pages
...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...where the Campagna melted into the blaze of the sea." In verity, this is no " Campana Supellex." It is a riddle ! Is he going up or down hill—- or both... | |
 | 1844 - 532 pages
...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...where the Campagna melted into the blaze of the sea. Tell me who is likest this, Poussin or Turner?" (pp. 116-118). The ancient landscape painter, it is... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 pages
...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 intervals between the solemn and orbed repose of the stone pines, passing to lose themselves in the... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...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 intervals between the solemn and orbed repose of the stone pines, passing to lose themselves in the... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1857 - 502 pages
...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...solemn and orbed repose of the stone pines, passing 1 " (';;•!• 1 1 s adulator .... OF TRUTH OF COLOUK. PABT II. § 3. Turner himself is inferior in... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1857 - 418 pages
...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...where the Campagna melted into the blaze of the sea. EVENING GUESTS. From an old number of Chamberjs Edinburgh Journal, where it appears anonymously. IP... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1857 - 500 pages
...nature. § 4. Impossible colours of Salvator, Titian ; to lose themselves in the last, white, Winding lustre of the measureless line where the Campagna melted into the blaze of the sea. Tell me who is likest this, Poussin or Turner ? Not in his most daring and dazzling efforts could Turner... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...hollow with blue mist and fitful sound, and over all the multitudinous bars of umber and rose, the sacred clouds that have no darkness, and only exist...where the Campagna melted into the blaze of the sea. The woods and waters which were peop>d by the Greek with typical life were not different from those... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...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...were seen in fathomless intervals between the solemn aud orbed repose of the stone pines, passing to lose themselves in the last, white blinding lustre... | |
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