 Perhaps there is no more impressive scene on earth than the solitary extent of the Campagna of Rome under evening light. Let the reader imagine himself for a moment withdrawn from the sounds and motion of the living world, and sent forth alone into this...  Examinations Papers - Σελίδα 631896Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Rose Mary, Kavana, Arthur Beatty - 1902 - 480 σελίδες
...perceive the details, as in section 133, and the next is to give them "a local habitation." A. MODEL. Perhaps there is no more impressive scene on earth...so lightly, for its substance is white, hollow, and carious, like the dusty wreck of the bones of men. The long knotted grass waves and tosses feebly in... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 824 σελίδες
...of the impossible. Let us analyse the separate subjects a little in this ideal work of Claude's. 37. Perhaps there is no more impressive scene on earth...so lightly, for its substance is white, hollow, and carious, like the dusty wreck of the bones of men.* The long knotted grass waves and tosses feebly... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1903 - 910 σελίδες
...of the impossible. Let us analyse the separate subjects a little in this ideal work of Claude's. 37. Perhaps there is no more impressive scene on earth...so lightly, for its substance is white, hollow, and carious, like the dusty wreck of the bones of men.* The long knotted grass waves and tosses feebly... | |
 | American Society for Extension of University Teaching - 1903 - 304 σελίδες
...Selections," 2 vols. (G. Allen, 1893). NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. A RUSKIN'S POWER IN DESCRIPTION. " Perhaps there is no more impressive scene on earth...so lightly, for its substance is white, hollow, and carious, like the dusty wreck of the bones of men. The long knotted grass waves and tosses feebly in... | |
 | George Gilbert Ramsay - 1903 - 456 σελίδες
...of Laurentum, and the sea bearing sails of every nation to the strand ofOstia. CCXLVI. The Campagna. Perhaps there is no more impressive scene on earth...himself for a moment withdrawn from the sounds and motions of the living world, and sent forth alone into this wild and wasted plain. The earth yields... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1904 - 202 σελίδες
...ewe's; and the child's wasted shoulders, cutting his old tartan jacket through, so sharp are they. 88. Perhaps there is no more impressive scene on earth...so lightly, for its substance is white, hollow, and carious, like the dusty wreck of the bones of men. The long knotted grass waves and tosses feebly in... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 σελίδες
...picture of the Campagna of Rome. This is in the Preface to the second edition of Modern Painters, 1843. "Perhaps there is no more impressive scene on earth...evening light. Let the reader imagine himself for the moment withdrawn from the sounds and motion of the living world, and sent forth alone into this... | |
 | William Tenney Brewster - 1907 - 424 σελίδες
...picture of the Campagna of Rome. This is in the Preface to the second edition of Modern Painters, 1843. "Perhaps there is no more impressive scene on earth...evening light. Let the reader imagine himself for the moment withdrawn from the sounds and motion of the living world, and sent forth alone into this... | |
 | Beaumont Fletcher - 1908 - 272 σελίδες
...author of Modern Painters himself in his description of the Campagna. " Let the reader," he writes, " imagine himself for a moment withdrawn from the sounds...of the living world and sent forth alone into this !/i he wild and wasted plain. The earth yields _, and crumbles beneath his feet, tread he never so... | |
 | William Angus Knight - 1909 - 300 σελίδες
...followed by two passages from Modern Painters. The first is his description of the Roman Campagna : "Perhaps there is no more impressive scene on earth...evening light. Let the reader imagine himself for the moment withdrawn from the sounds and motion of the living world, and sent forth alone into this... | |
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