 | Robert Scott Burn - 1857 - 138 страница
...description of the interior decoration of St. Mark's, at Venice : — " Under foot and over head is a continual succession of crowded imagery ; one picture...crystal ; the passions and the pleasures of human life symbolised together, and the mystery of its redemption ; for the mazes of interwoven lines and changeful... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 страница
...; and the glories around the heads of the sculptured saints flash upon us as we pass them, and sink into the gloom. Under foot and over head a continual...crystal; the passions and the pleasures of human life symbolised together, and the mystery of its redemption; for the mazes of interwoven lines and changeful... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1859 - 504 страница
...around the heads of the sculptured saints flash upon us as we pass them, and sink into the gloom. Undei foot and over head a continual succession of crowded...crystal ; the passions and the pleasures of human life symbolised together, and the mystery of its redemption ; for the mazes of interwoven lines and changeful... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1867 - 502 страница
...around the heads of the sculptured saints flash upon us as we pass them, and fink into the gloom. Undei foot and over head a continual succession of crowded...crystal ; the passions and the pleasures of human life symbolised together, and the mystery of its redemption; for tht mazes of interwoven lines and changeful... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 страница
...casts a narrow phosphoric stream upon the waves of marble that heave and fall in a thousand colours along the floor. What else there is of light is from...of them drink from running fountains and feed from * The Doge Andrea Dandolo. vases of crystal ; the passions and the pleasures of human life symbolized... | |
 | World - 1868 - 528 страница
...contains, so beautifully described by Mr. Ruskin in the following passage from the " Stones of Venice." " Under foot and over head, a continual succession of...crystal : the passions and the pleasures of human life symbolised together." Our illustration, taken from the celebrated Piaza of St. Mark, will serve to... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1869 - 390 страница
...mosaics upon a ground of gold; the pavement is of tesselafed marble. Under foot and over head there is " a continual succession of crowded imagery, one picture passing into another, as in a dream; forms of beauty and shapes of terror blend in fantastic combinations ; in the midst of dragons, serpents,... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1869 - 400 страница
...mosaics upon a ground of gold; the pavement is of tesselated marble. Under foot and over head there is " a continual succession of crowded imagery, one picture passing into another, as in a dream ; forms of beauty and shapes of terror blend in fantastic combinations ; in the midst of dragons, serpents,... | |
 | 1870 - 1172 страница
...contains, so beautifully described by Mr. Ruskin in the following passage from the "Stones of Venice." "Under foot and over head, a continual succession...from running fountains and feed from vases of crystal : Jhe passions and the pleasures of human life symbolized together." Our illustration, taken from the... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1872 - 500 страница
...around the heads of the sculptured saints flash upon us as we pass them, and sink into the gloom. TJndej foot and over head a continual succession of crowded...crystal ; the passions and the pleasures of human life symbolised together, and the mystery of its redemption ; for the mazes of interwoven lines and changeful... | |
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Under foot and over head, a continual succession of crowded imagery, one picture passing into another, as in a dream ; forms beautiful and terrible mixed together ; dragons and serpents, and ravening beasts of prey, and graceful birds that in the midst... 
