The True and the Beautiful in Nature, Art, Morals, and Religion: Selected from the Works of John RuskinJ. Wiley, 1859 - 452 Seiten |
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... strange thing how little in general people know about the sky . It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man , more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him , than in ...
... strange thing how little in general people know about the sky . It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man , more for the sole and evident purpose of talking to him and teaching him , than in ...
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... strange how many deep sources of delight are gathered into the compass of their glens and vales ; and how , down to the most secret cluster of their far - away flowers , and the idlest leap of their straying streamlets , the whole heart ...
... strange how many deep sources of delight are gathered into the compass of their glens and vales ; and how , down to the most secret cluster of their far - away flowers , and the idlest leap of their straying streamlets , the whole heart ...
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... strange and majestic than any which could be obtained by structures so beneficently adapted to the welfare of the human race . And the admission of other modes of elevation , more terrific and less secure , takes place exactly in ...
... strange and majestic than any which could be obtained by structures so beneficently adapted to the welfare of the human race . And the admission of other modes of elevation , more terrific and less secure , takes place exactly in ...
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... strange electric darts and flashes of mountain fire , and tossing it high in fantastic storm - cloud as the dried grass is tossed by the mower , only suffering it to depart at last , when chastened and pure , to refresh the faded air of ...
... strange electric darts and flashes of mountain fire , and tossing it high in fantastic storm - cloud as the dried grass is tossed by the mower , only suffering it to depart at last , when chastened and pure , to refresh the faded air of ...
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... strange to his feet , though forty years un- known , the roughness of the bare mountain - path , as he climbed from ledge to ledge of Abarim ; not strange to his aged eyes the scattered clusters of the mountain herbage , and the broken ...
... strange to his feet , though forty years un- known , the roughness of the bare mountain - path , as he climbed from ledge to ledge of Abarim ; not strange to his aged eyes the scattered clusters of the mountain herbage , and the broken ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Albert Durer appearance arch architecture artist beauty believe beneath blue bough building character Christ chrysoprase clouds color creatures Dante dark death deep delight Divine earth evil expression faith feeling foam fulness give glory God's Gothic Gothic architecture grace grass hand happy heart heaven hills human idea ideal imagination intellect John Ruskin kind landscape less light lines living look lower marble marble church Masaccio mean mediæval mind Mino da Fiesole mountain nature ness never noble object observe painter painting passing passion pathetic fallacy Paul Veronese peculiar perfect Perugino picture pleasure poetry present pure purity purple racter rocks sculpture seems seen sense shadow snow spirit stone Stones of Venice strange strength sublime suppose things thought tion Titian trees true truth utmost Venetian schools Venice waves whole wind words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 403 - A servant with this clause makes drudgery divine; who sweeps a room, as for thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
Seite 39 - Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith that all which we behold Is...
Seite 401 - And he took up his parable and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said...
Seite 21 - That which doth assign unto each thing the kind, that which doth moderate the force and power, that which doth appoint the form and measure, of working, the same we term a law.
Seite 437 - She riseth also while it is yet night and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
Seite 384 - My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away; Which are blackish by reason of the ice, and wherein the snow is hid: What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
Seite 411 - LET the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, " There is a man child conceived.
Seite 96 - For he is the Lord our God : and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand.
Seite 189 - But when from under this terrestrial ball He fires the proud tops of the eastern pines And darts his light through every guilty hole, Then murders, treasons, and detested sins, The cloak of night being pluck'd from off their backs, Stand bare and naked, trembling at themselves...
Seite 385 - He putteth forth his hand upon the rock ; he overturneth the mountains by the roots. He cutteth out rivers among the rocks ; and his eye seeth every precious thing. He bindeth the floods from overflowing; and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light.