Frondes agrestes. Readings in 'Modern painters' [by J. Ruskin], chosen by the younger lady of the Thwaite, Coniston [S. Beever].1875 |
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... edge is approached ; and then , suddenly , through the boughs of the firs , the eye perceives , be- neath , the green and gliding stream , and the broad walls of sandstone cliff that form its banks ; hollowed out where the river leans ...
... edge is approached ; and then , suddenly , through the boughs of the firs , the eye perceives , be- neath , the green and gliding stream , and the broad walls of sandstone cliff that form its banks ; hollowed out where the river leans ...
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... edge , yet never leaving it — poised as a white bird hovers over its nest ! Or those war clouds that gather on the horizon , dragon- crested , tongued with fire , -how is their barbed strength bridled ? What bits are those they are ...
... edge , yet never leaving it — poised as a white bird hovers over its nest ! Or those war clouds that gather on the horizon , dragon- crested , tongued with fire , -how is their barbed strength bridled ? What bits are those they are ...
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... edge ; these are taken up by the wind , not in dissipating dust , but bodily , in writhing , hanging , coiling masses , which make the air white , and thick as with snow , only the flakes are a foot or two long each ; the surges ...
... edge ; these are taken up by the wind , not in dissipating dust , but bodily , in writhing , hanging , coiling masses , which make the air white , and thick as with snow , only the flakes are a foot or two long each ; the surges ...
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... edge of the horizon to the other , like a woven gar- ment , and shaken into deep falling folds , as the robes droop from a king's shoulders ; all its bright rivers leaping into cataracts along the hollows of its fall , and all its ...
... edge of the horizon to the other , like a woven gar- ment , and shaken into deep falling folds , as the robes droop from a king's shoulders ; all its bright rivers leaping into cataracts along the hollows of its fall , and all its ...
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... and mingled with the sweet occurrences of transmitted light . If , passing to the edge of a sheet of it upon the lower Alps , early in May , we find , as we are nearly sure to find , two or three little round 128 FRONDES AGRESTES .
... and mingled with the sweet occurrences of transmitted light . If , passing to the edge of a sheet of it upon the lower Alps , early in May , we find , as we are nearly sure to find , two or three little round 128 FRONDES AGRESTES .
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Page 96 - I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled. I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
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Page 114 - For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field : And the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Page 62 - I say unto you, Swear not at all : neither by heaven ; for it is God's throne : nor by the earth ; for it is his footstool...
Page 169 - Perhaps there is no more impressive scene on earth than the solitary extent of the Campagna of Rome under evening light. Let the reader imagine himself for a moment withdrawn from the sounds and motion of the living world, and sent forth alone into this wild and wasted plain. The earth yields and crumbles beneath his foot, tread he never so lightly, for its substance is white, hollow, and carious, like the dusty wreck of the bones of men. The long knotted grass waves and tosses feebly in...
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Page 38 - ... 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 in the earthquake, nor in the fire : but in the still, small voice.
Page 133 - Consider what we owe merely to the meadow grass, to the covering of the dark ground by that glorious enamel, by the companies of those soft, and countless, and peaceful spears.