 not desolate, for its valleys are full of sown fields and tended pastures ; not rich nor lovely, but sunburnt and sorrowful, becoming wilder every instant as the road winds into its recesses, ascending still, until the higher woods, now partly oak and...  Giotto - Page 21by Harry Quilter - 1895 - 126 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1881 - 996 pages
...olive: a scene not sublime, for its forms are subdued and low; not.desolate, for its valleys are fall of sown fields and tended pastures; not rich nor lovely,...the higher woods, now partly oak and partly pine, drooping back from the central nest of the Apennine, leave a pastoral wilderness of scattered rock... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1876 - 454 pages
...mountain-ground, tufted irregularly with ilex and olive : a scene not sublime, for its forms are subdued and low ; not desolate, for its valleys are full of sown fields...the higher woods, now partly oak and partly pine, drooping back from the central nest of the Appennine, leave a pastoral wilderness of scattered rock... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1876 - 516 pages
...mountain-ground, tufted irregularly with ilex and olive : a scene not sublime, for its forms are subdued and low ; not desolate, for its valleys are full of sown fields...the higher woods, now partly oak and partly pine, drooping back from the central nest of the Appennine, leave a pastoral wilderness of scattered rock... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1876 - 458 pages
...mountain-ground, tufted irregularly with ilex and olive : a scene not sublime, for its forms are subdued and low ; not desolate, for its valleys are full of sown fields...the higher woods, now partly oak and partly pine, drooping back from the central nest of the Appennine, leave a pastoral wilderness of scattered rock... | |
 | Augustus John C. Hare - 1884 - 250 pages
...mountain-ground, tufted irregularly with ilex and olive ; a scene not sublime, for its forms are subdued and low; not desolate, for its valleys are full of sown fields...the higher woods, now partly oak and partly pine, drooping back from the central nest of the Apennine, leave a pastoral wilderness of scattered rock... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1884 - 424 pages
...mountain-ground, tufted irregularly with ilex and olive ; a scene not sublime, for its forms are subdued and low ; not desolate, for its valleys are full of sown fields...the higher woods, now partly oak and partly pine, drooping back from the central nest of the Apennine, leave a pastoral wilderness of scattered rock... | |
 | Augustus John Cuthbert Hare - 1890 - 284 pages
...mountain-ground, tufted irregularly with ilex and olive; a scene not sublime, for its forms are subdued and low; not desolate, for its valleys are full of sown fields...the higher woods, now partly oak and partly pine, drooping back from the central nest of the Apennine, leave a pastoral wilderness of scattered rock... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 416 pages
...mountain-ground, tufted irregularly with ilex and olive : a scene not sublime, for its forms are subdued and low ; not desolate, for its valleys are full of sown fields...ascending still, until the higher woods, now partly oak aud partly pine, drooping back from the central crest of the Apeuniue, leave a pastoral wilderness... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1900 - 353 pages
...mountain-ground, tufted irregularly with ilex and olive : a scene not sublime, for its forms are subdued and low ; not desolate, for its valleys are full of sown fields...the higher woods, now partly oak and partly pine, drooping back from the central crest of the Apennine, leave a pastoral wilderness of scathed rock and... | |
 | Marian Andrews, Christopher Hare - 1904 - 414 pages
...are subdued and low, only a grey extent of mountain ground, tufted irregularly with ilex and olive ; not rich nor lovely, but sunburnt and sorrowful ;...oak and partly pine, dropping back from the central nest of the Apennines, leave a pastoral wilderness of scattered rock and arid grass, withered away... | |
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