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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... serpent in the lake of Lerna , and if I mean , and you understand , nothing more than that fact , the story , whether true or false , is not a myth . But if by telling you this , I mean that Hercules purified the stagnation of many ...
... serpent in the lake of Lerna , and if I mean , and you understand , nothing more than that fact , the story , whether true or false , is not a myth . But if by telling you this , I mean that Hercules purified the stagnation of many ...
Page 286
... serpent and fish , per- haps gives some resemblance of it , dimly visible , for the quivering turns the fin into a mere mist . The entrance of the two barbs of a bee's sting by alternate motion , " the teeth of one barb acting as a ...
... serpent and fish , per- haps gives some resemblance of it , dimly visible , for the quivering turns the fin into a mere mist . The entrance of the two barbs of a bee's sting by alternate motion , " the teeth of one barb acting as a ...
Page 288
... serpent's coil ; and there is rarely a piece of monkish decorated writing in the world , that is not tainted with some ill - meant vileness of grotesque - nay , the very leaves of the twisted ivy - pattern of the fourteenth century can ...
... serpent's coil ; and there is rarely a piece of monkish decorated writing in the world , that is not tainted with some ill - meant vileness of grotesque - nay , the very leaves of the twisted ivy - pattern of the fourteenth century can ...
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