The Complete Works of John Ruskin, Volume 21Reuwee, Wattley & Walsh, 1891 |
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aerial perspective Alps angle Apennines appear artist bank battle of Marengo beauty beds blue boughs Canaletto cast character chiaroscuro Claude Claude's clear clouds color concave convex Copley Fielding curves dark reflections delicate distance drawing duckweed earth edge effect evidence expression exquisite fall farther feeling fissures foam foliage foreground give gray green ground Hence hills horizontal imagination impression instance John Varley lake landscape laws leaves less Leucippus limestone lines local color look mass mind mountain nature ness never objects observe old masters paint painters peaks perfect pict picture Pitti palace precipice rendering ridges ripple rise river Rivers of France rock Salvator's seen shadow shadow falls sharp shore side slope snow soil space spect speculum metal spray Stanfield stream summit surface thing tion torrent touch transparent trees truth Turner Vandevelde vertical water-painting waves whole
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Page 310 - That which doth assign unto each thing the kind, that which doth moderate the force and power, that which doth appoint the form and measure, of working, the same we term a law.
Page 411 - Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar?
Page 411 - O Proserpina, For the flowers now, that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's* waggon ! daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty ; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes, Or Cytherea's breath ; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength, a malady Most incident to maids ; bold...
Page 405 - And fuelled entrails thence conceiving fire, Sublimed* with mineral fury, aid the winds, And leave a singed bottom all involved With stench and smoke: such resting found the sole Of unblest feet.
Page 382 - On the other side, Incensed with indignation, Satan stood Unterrified, and like a comet burned, That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In the arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war.
Page 409 - The imagination sees the heart and inner nature, and makes them felt, but is often obscure, mysterious, and interrupted, in its giving of outer detail. Take an instance. A writer with neither imagination nor fancy, describing a fair lip, does not see it, but thinks about it, and about what is said of it, and calls it well-turned, or rosy, or delicate, or lovely, or afflicts us * Compare Arist.
Page 368 - On every corse there stood. This seraph-band, each waved his hand; It was a heavenly sight! They stood as signals to the land, Each one a lovely light; This seraph-band, each waved his hand, No voice did they impart — No voice; but oh! the silence sank Like music on my heart.
Page 154 - It is a sunset on the Atlantic, after prolonged storm ; but the storm is partially lulled, and the torn and streaming rain-clouds are moving in scarlet lines to lose themselves in the hollow of the night.
Page 448 - Rock-rooted, stretched athwart the vacancy Its swinging boughs, to each inconstant blast Yielding one only response, at each pause, In most familiar cadence : with the howl, The thunder and the hiss of homeless streams Mingling its solemn song...
Page 410 - With that she dashed her on the lips So dyed double red ; Hard was the heart that gave the blow, Soft were those lips that bled.