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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... pure woman has above all creatures ; -fineness and fulness of sensation , be- yond reason ; -the guide and sanctifier of reason itself . Reason can but determine what is true : —it is the God - given passion of humanity which alone can ...
... pure woman has above all creatures ; -fineness and fulness of sensation , be- yond reason ; -the guide and sanctifier of reason itself . Reason can but determine what is true : —it is the God - given passion of humanity which alone can ...
Page 292
... pure delight , from the coveting of Eve to the crowning of the Madonna , above the " Rosa sempiterna , Che si dilata , rigrada , e ridole Odor di lode al Sol . " We have no time now for these , we must go on to the hum- blest group of ...
... pure delight , from the coveting of Eve to the crowning of the Madonna , above the " Rosa sempiterna , Che si dilata , rigrada , e ridole Odor di lode al Sol . " We have no time now for these , we must go on to the hum- blest group of ...
Page 375
... pure white , and practically opaque , cloud , or thing like a cloud , as an Alp , or Milan Cathedral , you can have cast by rising or setting sunlight , any tints of amber , orange , or moderately deep rose - you can't have lemon ...
... pure white , and practically opaque , cloud , or thing like a cloud , as an Alp , or Milan Cathedral , you can have cast by rising or setting sunlight , any tints of amber , orange , or moderately deep rose - you can't have lemon ...
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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