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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... sense solemn days . There is no solemnity so deep , to a rightly - thinking creature , as that of dawn . But not only in that beautiful sense , but in all their character and method , they are to be solemn days . Take your Latin ...
... sense solemn days . There is no solemnity so deep , to a rightly - thinking creature , as that of dawn . But not only in that beautiful sense , but in all their character and method , they are to be solemn days . Take your Latin ...
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John Ruskin. sense , it is the work of people who know also that they are right . The very sense of inevitable error from their purpose marks the perfectness of that purpose , and the continued sense of failure arises from the continued ...
John Ruskin. sense , it is the work of people who know also that they are right . The very sense of inevitable error from their purpose marks the perfectness of that purpose , and the continued sense of failure arises from the continued ...
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... sense that the heaven is light , more than it is 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 ...
... sense that the heaven is light , more than it is 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 ...
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