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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... noble art ; and if that noble art were among us , we should feel it and rejoice ; not caring in the least to hear lectures on it ; and since it is not among us , be assured we have to go back to the root of it , or , at 124 SESAME AND ...
... noble art ; and if that noble art were among us , we should feel it and rejoice ; not caring in the least to hear lectures on it ; and since it is not among us , be assured we have to go back to the root of it , or , at 124 SESAME AND ...
Page 128
... noble Catholics of the Forest Cantons , and the noble Protestants of the Vaudois valleys , have maintained , for dateless ages , their faiths and liberties - there the unchecked Alpine rivers yet run wild in devastation : and the ...
... noble Catholics of the Forest Cantons , and the noble Protestants of the Vaudois valleys , have maintained , for dateless ages , their faiths and liberties - there the unchecked Alpine rivers yet run wild in devastation : and the ...
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... noble passion , and Fortitude , or noble patience ; and of these , the chief powers of Athena , the Greeks had divinely written for them , and for all men after them , two mighty songs , -one , of the Menis , † mens , passion , or zeal ...
... noble passion , and Fortitude , or noble patience ; and of these , the chief powers of Athena , the Greeks had divinely written for them , and for all men after them , two mighty songs , -one , of the Menis , † mens , passion , or zeal ...
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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