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 4101853Visualização completa - Sobre este livro
| John Ruskin - 1918 - 454 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...their flight, and imagine the Mediterranean lying bfineath us Jlike an jrregular lake, and all its ancient promontories sleeping in the sun: here and... | |
| Francis Patrick Donnelly - 1919 - 328 páginas
...of view gives interest through novelty, as when Ruskin imagines Europe being viewed as if by a bird. "Let us, for a moment, try to raise ourselves even above the level of the swallow's flight, and imagine the Mediterranean lying beneath us." — Stones of Venice. allusion... | |
| 1920 - 512 páginas
...Keats, and the Bible, from Mr. Strunsky's C+ catalog of Central Park, to Ruskin's picture of Europe: " Let us, for a moment, try to raise ourselves even above the level of the birds' flight, and imagine the Mediterranean lying beneath us ASSIGNMENT 3. Narrow the following... | |
| Francis Henry Pritchard - 1923 - 214 páginas
...confines fright fair peace And make us wade even in our kindred's blood. SHAKESPEARE (e) Let us ... imagine the Mediterranean lying beneath us like an...volcano smoke, surrounded by its circle of ashes. KUSKIN (d) The thunder-phrase of the Athenian, grown Up out of memories of Marathon, Would echo like... | |
| Warner Taylor - 1923 - 532 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...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... | |
| Francis Henry Pritchard - 1924 - 258 páginas
...confines fright fair peace And make us wade even in our kindred's blood. SHAKESPEARE (c) Let us ... imagine the Mediterranean lying beneath us like an...volcano smoke, surrounded by its circle of ashes. BUSKIN (rf) The thunder-phrase of the Athenian, grown Up out of memories of Marathon, Would echo like... | |
| Warner Taylor - 1927 - 668 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...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... | |
| Eric Warner, Graham Hough - 1983 - 314 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...lake, and all its ancient promontories sleeping in the sun:8 here and there an angry spot of thunder, a grey stain of storm, moving upon the burning field;... | |
| Jonah Siegel - 2000 - 384 páginas
...for ourselves that variegated mosaic of the world's surface which a bird sees in its migration. . . . Let us, for a moment try to raise ourselves even above...Mediterranean lying beneath us like an irregular lake . . . here and there an angry spot of thunder, a grey stain of storm moving upon the burning field;... | |
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