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 268
... light is supposed to blind the eyes , and no face of the god is seen ( Turner , in the Ulysses and Polyphemus sunrises , loses the form of the god in light , giving the chariot - horses only ; rendering in his own manner , after 2,200 ...
... light is supposed to blind the eyes , and no face of the god is seen ( Turner , in the Ulysses and Polyphemus sunrises , loses the form of the god in light , giving the chariot - horses only ; rendering in his own manner , after 2,200 ...
Page 376
... light . But , mind , all that is done by reflected light - and in that light you never get a green ray from the reflecting cloud ; there is no such thing in nature as a green lighted cloud re- lieved from a red sky , the cloud is always ...
... light . But , mind , all that is done by reflected light - and in that light you never get a green ray from the reflecting cloud ; there is no such thing in nature as a green lighted cloud re- lieved from a red sky , the cloud is always ...
Page 403
... light or colour which an object possesses , whatever the angle it is seen at , and the light which it reverberates at one angle only . The Alps , under the rose * of sunset , are exactly of the same colour whether you see them from ...
... light or colour which an object possesses , whatever the angle it is seen at , and the light which it reverberates at one angle only . The Alps , under the rose * of sunset , are exactly of the same colour whether you see them from ...
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