The Works of John Ruskin: Modern painters, v.1-5J. Wiley, 1887 |
Términos y frases comunes
Aiguille Aiguille du Midi Albert Durer Alpine Alps angle appear Argentière artist bank beauty beds blue broken Chamouni chapter character Charmoz cleavage cliff clouds color contour crest curvature curves dark débris drawing earth edge examine expression fall farther feeling feet fragments Fribourg give glacier gneiss Goldau granite grey heaps heart heaven hills human imagination infinite influence kind landscape less light limestone lines look lower lowland Martigny Martin Schöngauer Masaccio mass Matterhorn mica mind Mont Mont Blanc moun mountain nature nearly ness never noble observe paint painters Paul Veronese peaks perfect pines Plate precipice purple ravines reader rocks round scene scenery seen shadow Shakespere side slaty crystallines slope soft stones Stones of Venice straight stream structure summit supposed Switzerland tain things thought tion Titian torrent trees true Turner Valais valley waves whole
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Página 365 - With fairest flowers While summer lasts, and I live here, Fidèle, I'll sweeten thy sad grave. Thou shalt not lack The flower that's like thy face—pale primrose, nor The azured harebell—like thy veins ; no, nor • The leaf of eglantine, whom not to slander, Outsweetened not thy breath. The
Página 373 - We are beastly ; subtle as the fox, for prey ; Like warlike as the wolf, for what we eat : Our valor is to chase what flies ; our cage We make our choir, as doth the prisoned bird." A few phrases occur here and there which might justify
Página 93 - out of his place. The waters wear the stones : thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth ; and thou destroyest the hope of man."—Job, xiv. 18, 19. straying streamlets, the whole heart of Nature seems thirsting to give, and still to give, shedding
Página 318 - For thou shalt be in league with the Stones of the Field ; and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.
Página 89 - Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven ? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth ? canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds
Página 56 - attempted by sculptors, simply because they did not observe that the main note of expression in it was in the fair sheet-lightning—fading and flaming through the cloud of passion 1 Per più fiate gli occhi ci sospinse Quella lettura, e scolorocci il viso. And, of course, in landscape, color is the principal source of expression, Take one melancholy chord from the close of Crabbe's Patron
Página 346 - intense delight, because the shadow, or the hope, of the hills is in them. § 2. And thus, although there are few districts of Northern Europe, however apparently dull or tame, in which I cannot find pleasure, though the whole of Northern France (except Champagne), dull as it seems to most travellers, is to me a
Página 96 - some appointed rate of journey, they must evermore descend, sometimes slow and sometimes swift, but never pausing ; the daily portion of the earth they have to glide over marked for them at each successive sunrise, the place which has known them knowing them no more, and the gateways of guarding mountains opened for
Página 63 - door in Mr. Hunt's picture, and there will not be found in it a- single clear outline. All is the most exquisite mystery of color ; becoming reality at its due distance. In like manner, examine the small gems on the robe of the figure. Not one will be made out in form,
Página 90 - drooping swathe of rain, his promises of everlasting love. "In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun ;" whose burning ball, which without the firmament would be seen as an intolerable and scorching circle in the blackness of vacuity, is by that firmament surrounded