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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... lifted up among the barred clouds , step by step , line by line ; star after star she quenches with her kindling light , setting in their stead an army of pale , pene- trable , fleecy wreaths in the heaven , to give light upon the earth ...
... lifted up among the barred clouds , step by step , line by line ; star after star she quenches with her kindling light , setting in their stead an army of pale , pene- trable , fleecy wreaths in the heaven , to give light upon the earth ...
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... lifted cloud , casting a new glory on every wreath , as it passes by , until the whole heaven , one scarlet canopy , is interwoven with a roof of waving flame , and tossing vault beyond vault , as with the drifted wings of many ...
... lifted cloud , casting a new glory on every wreath , as it passes by , until the whole heaven , one scarlet canopy , is interwoven with a roof of waving flame , and tossing vault beyond vault , as with the drifted wings of many ...
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... lifted even in flood scarcely over its stepping stones , but through all sweet summer keeping tremulous music with harp- strings of dark water among the silver fingering of the pebbles . Far away in the south the strong river gods have ...
... lifted even in flood scarcely over its stepping stones , but through all sweet summer keeping tremulous music with harp- strings of dark water among the silver fingering of the pebbles . Far away in the south the strong river gods have ...
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... lifted at intervals , like sheaves of loaded corn , by some stronger gush from the cataract , and bowed again upon the mossy rocks as its roar dies away , the dew gushing from their thick branches through drooping clusters of emerald ...
... lifted at intervals , like sheaves of loaded corn , by some stronger gush from the cataract , and bowed again upon the mossy rocks as its roar dies away , the dew gushing from their thick branches through drooping clusters of emerald ...
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... , whirling and flying in rags and fragments from wave to wave ; and finally conceive the surges them- selves in their utmost pitch of power , velocity , vastness and madness , lifting themselves in precipices and peaks 72 FRONDES AGRESTES .
... , whirling and flying in rags and fragments from wave to wave ; and finally conceive the surges them- selves in their utmost pitch of power , velocity , vastness and madness , lifting themselves in precipices and peaks 72 FRONDES AGRESTES .
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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.
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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.