| 1854 - 686 pages
...river." Here is the worthy companion-piece of the above otherwise incomparable description : — " Beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises a vision out of the earth, and all the groat squares seem to have opened from it in a. kind of awe, that we may sec it far away : a multitude... | |
| Henry Allon - 1853 - 628 pages
...struck ' hack into sudden obedience and lovely order.' ' And well may they fall back, for beyond these troops of ordered arches, there rises a vision out...clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light, a treasure heap, it seems, partly of gold. partly of opal, and mother of pearl, hollowed beneath into... | |
| 1853 - 1042 pages
...goodly sculpture aud fluted shafts of delicate stone. ' And well may they fall back ; for beyond these troops of ordered arches there rises a •vision out...clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light; a treasured heap, it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed beneath... | |
| Charles Williams - 1854 - 662 pages
...adopt Mr. Ruskm's description of the Church of St. Mark, after alluding to ал English cathedral : — "There rises a vision out of the earth, and all the...clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light; a treasure heap, it seems, partly of gold and partly of opal and mother of pearl, hollowed beneath into... | |
| 1854 - 632 pages
...Cathedral. 183 Here is the worthy companion-piece of the above otherwise incomparable description : — "Beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises a vision out of the earth, and all the great squares seem to have opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it tar away : a multitude of... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 496 pages
...charged with goodly sculpture, and fluted shafts of delicate stone. And well may they fall back, for beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises...white domes, clustered into a long low pyramid of colored light ; a treasure-heap, it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal, and mother-of-pearl,... | |
| John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 pages
...charged with goodly sculpture, and fluted shafts of delicate stone. And well may they fall back, for beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises...white domes, clustered into a long low pyramid of colored light ; a treasure-heap, it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal, and mother-of-pearl,... | |
| John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...charged with goodly sculpture, and fluted shafts of delicate stone. And well may they fall back, for beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises...opened from it in a kind of awe, that we may see it far away;—a multitude of pillars and white domes, clustered into a long low pyramid of colored light;... | |
| George Henry Duncan Mathias - 1867 - 292 pages
...charged with goodly sculpture and fluted shafts of delicate stone. "And well may they fall back, for beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises...white domes, clustered into a long low pyramid of colored light, a treasure-keep, it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl, hollowed... | |
| John Ruskin - 1867 - 458 pages
...with goodly sculpture, and fluted shafts of delicate stone. § xiv. And well may they fall back, for beyond those troops of ordered arches there rises...white domes, clustered into a long low pyramid of colored light ; a treasure-heap, it seems, partly of gold, and partly of opal and mother-of-pearl,... | |
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