 | 1881 - 996 pages
...tower upon a distant rock ; but neither gardens, nor flowers, nor glittering palace walls, only a grey extent of mountain-ground, tufted irregularly with...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 - 450 pages
...tower upon a distant . rock ; but neither gardens, nor flowers, nor glittering palacewalls, only a grey extent of mountain-ground, tufted irregularly with...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
...flowers, nor glittering palacewalls, only a grey extent of mountain-ground, tufted irregularly with ile.v and olive : a scene not sublime, for its forms are subdued and low ; no!, desolate, for its valleys are full of sown fields and tended pastures ; not rich nor lovely,... | |
 | Augustus John C. Hare - 1884 - 250 pages
...tower upon a distant rock ; but neither gardens, nor flowers, nor glittering palacewalls, only a grey extent of mountain-ground, tufted irregularly with...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
...tower upon a distant rock ; but neither gardens, nor flowers, nor glittering palacewalls, only a grey extent of mountain-ground, tufted irregularly with...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 - 428 pages
...tower upon a distant rock ; but neither gardens, nor flowers, nor glittering palacewalls, only a grey extent of mountain-ground, tufted irregularly with...every instant as the road winds into its recesses, a-cending still, until the higher woods, now partly oak and partly pine, drooping back from the central... | |
 | Elizabeth Dickinson Rice Bianciardi - 1884 - 318 pages
...but neither gardens nor flowers nor glittering palace walls, only a gray extent of mountain ground tufted irregularly with ilex and olive ; a scene not...the road winds into its recesses, ascending still." There are melancholy associations also with this road. One cannot but remember Eleanor of Toledo, the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1894 - 416 pages
...tower upon a distant rock ; but neither gardens, nor flowers, nor glittering palace walls, only a grey extent of mountain-ground, tufted irregularly with...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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1900 - 353 pages
...tower upon a distant rock; but neither gardens, nor flowers, nor glittering palace-walls, only a grey extent of mountain-ground, tufted irregularly with...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... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1906 - 752 pages
...but neither gardens, nor flowers, nor glittering palace walls, only a grey extent of mountain ground, tufted irregularly with ilex and olive: a scene not...sunburnt and sorrowful; becoming wilder every instant as * Lord Lindsay, Christian Art, vol. ii. p. 166. 1 [.WfsiV de Profettori del Diiegno, vol. i. pp. 103... | |
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... 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 and tended pastures ; not rich nor lovely, but sunburnt and sorrowful... 
