Let us, for a moment, try to raise ourselves even above the level of their flight, and imagine the Mediterranean lying beneath us like an irregular lake, and all its ancient promontories sleeping in the sun... The Ecclesiologist - Página 431de Ecclesiological society - 1853Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1854 - 428 páginas
...swallow see far off, as they lean npon the siroeeo wind. Let ns, for a moment, try to raise onrselves even above the level of their flight, and imagine the Mediterranean lying beneath ns like an irregnlar lake, and all its aneient promontories sleeping in the snn ; here and there an... | |
| John Ruskin - 1853 - 456 páginas
...gentian and of the olive which the stork and the swallow see far off, as they lean upon the sirocco wind. Let us, for a moment, try to raise ourselves even...of storm, moving upon the burning field ; and here and there a fixed wreath of white volcano smoke, surrounded by its circle of ashes ; but for the most... | |
| Crystal palace - 1854 - 250 páginas
...gentian and of the olive which the stork and the swallow see far off, as they lean upon the sirocco wind. Let us, for a moment, try to raise ourselves even...sleeping in the sun ; here and there an angry spot of thunder—a gray stain of storm—moving upon the burning field; and there a fixed wreath of white... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1854 - 608 páginas
...the stork and the swallow see fur off, as they lean upon the sirocco wind. Let us fur a moment try 'o raise ourselves even above the level of their flight,...the sun : here and there an angry spot of thunder, a gray stain of storm, moving upon the burning field ; and here and there a fixed wreath of white volcano... | |
| 1854 - 632 páginas
...gentian and of the olive which the stork and the swallow see far off, as they lean upon the sirocco wind. Let us for a moment try to raise ourselves even above...Mediterranean lying beneath us like an irregular lake, and nil its ancient promontories sleeping in the sun : here and there an angry spot of thunder, a grey... | |
| John Ruskin - 1854 - 104 páginas
...gentian and of the olive which the stork and the swallow see far off, as they lean upon the sirocco wind. Let us, for a moment, try to raise ourselves even above the level of their flight, and imagine the Mediterannean lying beneath us like an irregular lake, and all its ancient promontories sleeping in... | |
| William Sidney Gibson - 1856 - 96 páginas
...shores of the Mediterranean to the north of Europe ! Let us (says one of our most eloquent writers) imagine the Mediterranean lying beneath us like an...of storm, moving upon the burning field, and here and there a fixed wreath of white volcano smoke surrounded by its circle of ashes, but for the most... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 496 páginas
...gentian and of the olive which the stork and the swallow see far off, as they lean upon the sirocco wind. Let us, for a moment, try to raise ourselves even...of storm, moving upon the burning field; and here and there a fixed wreath of white volcano smoke, surrounded by its circle of ashes ; but for the most... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 páginas
...gentian and of the olive which the stork and the swallow see far off, as they lean upon the sirocco wind. Let us, for a moment, try to raise ourselves even...of storm, moving upon the burning field ; and here and there a fixed wreath of white volcano smoke, surrounded by its circle of ashes ; but for the most... | |
| Mrs. Henry Warwick Cole - 1859 - 578 páginas
...gentian and of the olive which the stork and the swallow see far off, as they lean upon the sirocco wind. Let us, for a moment, try to raise ourselves even...of storm moving upon the burning field ; and here and there a fixed wreath of white volcano smoke, surrounded by its circle of ashes : but for the most... | |
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