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 301
... blue . I was not thinking of this when I wrote , in speaking of pictorial chiaroscuro , " The sky is not blue colour merely ; it is blue fire , and cannot be painted " ( Mod . P. iv . p . 36 ) ; but it was this that the Greeks chiefly ...
... blue . I was not thinking of this when I wrote , in speaking of pictorial chiaroscuro , " The sky is not blue colour merely ; it is blue fire , and cannot be painted " ( Mod . P. iv . p . 36 ) ; but it was this that the Greeks chiefly ...
Page 377
... blue — all the hues pro- duced by diffraction - were exhibited in the utmost splendour . " Three times during my ... blue sky . Under the blue space is a flattened dome of earth - cloud clinging to , and altogether masquing the form of ...
... blue — all the hues pro- duced by diffraction - were exhibited in the utmost splendour . " Three times during my ... blue sky . Under the blue space is a flattened dome of earth - cloud clinging to , and altogether masquing the form of ...
Page 402
... blue , and pure air blue , what are the changes in either which make them what sailors call " dirty ; " but it is one of the worst omissions of the previous lecture , that I have not stated among the characters of the plague - cloud ...
... blue , and pure air blue , what are the changes in either which make them what sailors call " dirty ; " but it is one of the worst omissions of the previous lecture , that I have not stated among the characters of the plague - cloud ...
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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