Between that grim cathedral of England and this, what an interval ! There is a type of it in the very birds that haunt them; for, instead of the restless crowd, hoarse-voiced and sable-winged, drifting on the bleak upper air, the St Mark's porches are... New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register - Página 344editado por - 1854Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| 1853 - 512 páginas
...instead of the restless crow, hoarse-voiced and sable-winged, drifting on the bleak upper air, the S. Mark's porches are full of doves, that nestle among...that have stood unchanged for seven hundred years." — p. 66. And the first glimpse of the interior of S. Mark's must also be quoted : " Through the heavy... | |
| 1853 - 1042 páginas
...marble foliage, and mingle the soft iridescence of their living plumes, changing at every motion, with tints, hardly less lovely, that have stood unchanged for seven hundred years." — p. 67. Scattered throughout this second volume are admonitions addressed to our English church... | |
| Charles Williams - 1854 - 662 páginas
...spray, as if the breakers of the Lido shore had been first bound before they fell, and the sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst. " Between...that have stood unchanged for seven hundred years." ' The Piazza is almost the only place in which the population can assemble for the purpose of public... | |
| 1854 - 632 páginas
...had been frostbound before they fell, and the sea-nymphs had inlaid them, with coral and amethysts. " Between that grim cathedral of England and this, what...that have stood unchanged for seven hundred years." We now proceed to give our readers the heads of a piece of artistical analysis, which, as we have already... | |
| Charles Williams - 1854 - 668 páginas
...first bound before they fell, and the sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst. " Betwaen that grim cathedral of England and this what an interval...that have stood unchanged for seven hundred years." The Piazza is almost the only place in which the population can assemble for the purpose of public... | |
| 1854 - 526 páginas
...the soft iridescence of their living plumes, changing at every motion, with the tints, hardly leas lovely, that have stood unchanged for seven hundred...The parting is rude ; but there are some partings ao hard, that to part at all yon must do it in cruel haste — If it were done, when 'tis done, then... | |
| James Hamilton - 1856 - 984 páginas
...my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs." (ch. ii. 14.) * " The St. Mark's porches are full of doves that nestle...that have stood unchanged for seven hundred years." — RUSKIN'S Stonet of Venice, p. 66. The species is very widely spread along the European shores,... | |
| Rand - 1857 - 344 páginas
...spray, as if the breakers on the Lido shore had been frost-bound before they fell, and the sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst. " Between...that have stood unchanged for seven hundred years. " And what effect has this splendour on those who pass beneath it ? You may walk from sunrise to sunset,... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 496 páginas
...haunt them ; for, instead of the restless crowd, hoarse-voiced and sable-winged, drifting on the black upper air, the St. Mark's porches are full of doves,...that have stood unchanged for seven hundred years. And what effect has this splendor on those who pass beneath it ? You may walk from sunrise to sunset,... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 páginas
...haunt them; for, instead of the restless crowd, hoarse-voiced and sable-winged, drifting on the black upper air, the St. Mark's porches are full of doves,...that have stood unchanged for seven hundred years. And what effect has this splendor on those who pass beneath it ? You may walk from sunrise to sunset,... | |
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