 | Henry Allon - 1853 - 628 страница
...themselves far into the blue sky, in flashes and wreaths of sculptured spray, as if the breakers of the Lido shore had been frost-bound before they fell,...sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst.' The exquisite beauty of this piece of ' word painting,' must be felt by every reader; but the exquisite... | |
 | Ecclesiological society - 1853 - 942 страница
...blazing in their breadth of golden strength, and the S. Mark's lion lifted on a blue field covered witli stars, until at last, as if in ecstasy, the crests...birds that haunt them ; for, instead of the restless crow, hoarse-voiced and sable-winged, drifting on the bleak upper air, the S. Mark's porches are full... | |
 | 1853 - 512 страница
...and the S. Mark's lion lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in eestasy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam,...birds that haunt them ; for, instead of the restless crow, hoarse-voiced and sable-winged, drifting on the bleak upper air, the S. Mark's porches are full... | |
 | Crystal palace - 1854 - 250 страница
...of life ; angels, and the sign* of heaven, and the labours of man, each in its appointed season upon earth ; and above these another range of glittering...sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst." Byzantine art had this merit in it, that it contained a principle of life. Its decoration, harsh and... | |
 | 1854 - 632 страница
...lifted on a blue field, covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstasy, the crests of the archer break into a marble foam, ' and toss themselves far...and the sea-nymphs had inlaid them, with coral and amethysts. " Between that grim cathedral of England and this, what an interval ! There is a type of... | |
 | Charles Williams - 1854 - 668 страница
...flashes and wreaths of sculptured spray, as if the breakers of the Lido shore had been first bound before they fell, and the sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst. " Betwaen that grim cathedral of England and this what an interval ! There is a type of it in the very... | |
 | Robert Scott Burn - 1857 - 138 страница
...Greek horses are seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength ; and the St. Mark's lion lifted in a blue field, covered with stars, until at last, as...sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst." " Byzantine architecture," remarks a writer, himself a great admirer of Ruskin, and who frequently... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 страница
...spray, as if the breakers on the Lido shore had been frostbound before tfiey fell, and the sea nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst. Between that...grim cathedral of England and this, what an interval I There is a type of it in the very birds that haunt them; for, instead of the restless crowd, hoarse-voiced... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1866 - 248 страница
...and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstacy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam,...sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst." The commencement of the fifteenth century was perhaps the most flourishing period in the history of... | |
 | Samuel Manning - 1866 - 228 страница
...and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstacy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam,...sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst." The commencement of the fifteenth century was perhaps the most flourishing period in the history of... | |
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... a confusion of delight, amidst which the breasts of the Greek horses are seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength, and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstasy, the crests of the arches... 
