... as if the rock spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass, the traceries of intricate silver and fringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every fibre into fitful brightness, and glossy traverses of silken change, yet all subdued... The home naturalist - Seite 115von Harland Coultas - 1877Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1873 - 500 Seiten
...the starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine filmed as though the Rock spirits could spin porphyry ; the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes of...traverses of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive ; framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace. They will not be gathered like the flowers for chaplet... | |
| John Ruskin - 1860 - 452 Seiten
...rounded bosses of furred and beaming green, — the starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine-filmed, as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do...subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest oifices of grace. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet or love-token ; but of these... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1861 - 614 Seiten
...rounded bosses of furred and beaming green — the starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine-filmed, as if the rock spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass — the traceries of in trícate sil ver and fringes of amber, lustrous, aborescent, burnished through every über into... | |
| 1861 - 588 Seiten
...one to tell of the rounded bosses of furred and beaming green, the starred divisions of rubied bloom, the traceries of intricate silver and fringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every fiber into a fitfuL¿righlness and glossy travesty of silken change, yet all subdued and pensive, and... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1866 - 374 Seiten
...divisions of rubied bloom, fine-filmed, as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass,—the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes of amber,...subdued and pensive, and framed for simplest, sweetest oflices of grace. They will not be gathered, like the flowers, for chaplet or love-token; but of these... | |
| Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 Seiten
...rounded bosses of furred and beaming green, — the starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine-filmed, as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass,— the traceries of intricate silver, andfringes of amber, lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every fibre into fitful brightness and... | |
| John Ruskin - 1871 - 470 Seiten
...rounded bosses of furred and beaming green, — the starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine-filmed, as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do...the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes of * The reader must remember always that my work is concerning the aspects of things only: — of course... | |
| Illustrated reader - 1874 - 408 Seiten
...divisions of rubied bloom, fine-filmed, as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do glass,—the traceries of intricate silver, and fringes of amber,...glossy traverses of silken change, yet all subdued and peneive, and framed for simplest, sweetest offices of grace. They will not be gathered, like the flowers,... | |
| Edward W. Badger, William Hillhouse - 1878 - 738 Seiten
...rounded bosses of furred and beaming greeu, — the starred divisions of rubied bloom, Cue-filmed, as if the rock spirits could spin porphyry as we do...lustrous, arborescent, burnished through every fibre in to fitful brightness and glossy traverses of silken change, yet all subdued ami pensive, and framed... | |
| John Ruskin - 1879 - 506 Seiten
...rounded bosses of furred and beaming green, — the starred divisions of rubied bloom, fine-filmed, as if the Rock Spirits could spin porphyry as we do...intricate silver, and fringes of amber, lustrous, arbo* The reader must remember always that my work is concerning the azpecta of things only. Of course,... | |
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