Ruskin: Sesame and lilies. Unto this last. The Queen of the air. The storm cloud of the nineteenth centuryDana Estes & Company, 1856 |
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... Greek ( not to speak of eastern and primitive dialects ) . And many words have been all these ; -that is to say , have been Greek first , Latin next , French or German next , and English last : undergoing a certain change of sense and ...
... Greek ( not to speak of eastern and primitive dialects ) . And many words have been all these ; -that is to say , have been Greek first , Latin next , French or German next , and English last : undergoing a certain change of sense and ...
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... Greek tragic thought ; and in this gloom the failure of colour - percep tion is partly noble , partly base : noble , in its earnestness , which raises the design of Greek vases as far above the designing of mere colourist nations like ...
... Greek tragic thought ; and in this gloom the failure of colour - percep tion is partly noble , partly base : noble , in its earnestness , which raises the design of Greek vases as far above the designing of mere colourist nations like ...
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... Greek coins which present so many admirable subjects for your study , I must speak for the present of one only : the Hercules of Camarina . You have , represented by a Greek workman , in that coin , the face of a man , and the skin of a ...
... Greek coins which present so many admirable subjects for your study , I must speak for the present of one only : the Hercules of Camarina . You have , represented by a Greek workman , in that coin , the face of a man , and the skin of a ...
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æther Alps Athena beautiful become blue body breath calm Camarina catallactic character Chimæra cloud colour creature dark death Demeter depends earth economists electric cloud English entirely Erechtheum evil eyes fact farther fire flowers force give given gold Greek Greek art ground hand Harpies heart heaven Hephæstus Hermes Homer honour human idea Iliad justice kind labour lecture less light live look matter means merely Milan Cathedral mind modern Mont Blanc moral myths nation nature Nemean Lion ness never noble observe once passion perfect perhaps persons Pindar plague-wind political economy produce pure quantity question rain reader respecting rich rock sense serpent soul spirit strange strength sunset suppose tell things thought tion true truth vapour Voirons wages wealth weather wholly wind wise word