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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Page 57
... beautiful or ideal soul ? If we had to deal with mere blood , instead of spirit , and the thing might literally be ... beautiful human creature than a beautiful dome or steeple , and more delightful to look up reverently to a creature ...
... beautiful or ideal soul ? If we had to deal with mere blood , instead of spirit , and the thing might literally be ... beautiful human creature than a beautiful dome or steeple , and more delightful to look up reverently to a creature ...
Page 397
... beautiful that it may also be thought of as partly an apoca- lypse . 7. ' More beautiful in that variety .'- This line , with the one italicized beneath , expresses in Myrrha's mind , the feeling which I said , in the outset , every ...
... beautiful that it may also be thought of as partly an apoca- lypse . 7. ' More beautiful in that variety .'- This line , with the one italicized beneath , expresses in Myrrha's mind , the feeling which I said , in the outset , every ...
Page 407
... beautiful appearance of some cirrus clouds near the sun , the central part of the cloud being of a fine pink or red , then green , and pink fringe . This continued for about a quarter of an hour . The same was observed on the 27th of ...
... beautiful appearance of some cirrus clouds near the sun , the central part of the cloud being of a fine pink or red , then green , and pink fringe . This continued for about a quarter of an hour . The same was observed on the 27th of ...
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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