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 244
... darkness , she is " Glaukopis , " " owl - eyed . " * In her justice , which is the dominant virtue , she wears two robes , one of light and one of darkness ; the robe of light , saffron colour , or the colour of the daybreak , falls to ...
... darkness , she is " Glaukopis , " " owl - eyed . " * In her justice , which is the dominant virtue , she wears two robes , one of light and one of darkness ; the robe of light , saffron colour , or the colour of the daybreak , falls to ...
Page 303
... darkness by which she herself deceives and beguiles to final ruin those to whom she is wholly adverse ; this contradiction of her own glory being the uttermost judg- ment upon human falsehood . Thus it is she who provokes Pandarus to ...
... darkness by which she herself deceives and beguiles to final ruin those to whom she is wholly adverse ; this contradiction of her own glory being the uttermost judg- ment upon human falsehood . Thus it is she who provokes Pandarus to ...
Page 390
... darkness seeming each time as it settles more loathsome , at last stopping my reading in mere blindness . One lurid gleam of white cumulus in upper lead- blue sky , seen for half a minute through the sulphurous chimney - pot vomit of ...
... darkness seeming each time as it settles more loathsome , at last stopping my reading in mere blindness . One lurid gleam of white cumulus in upper lead- blue sky , seen for half a minute through the sulphurous chimney - pot vomit 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