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Page xxv
... light . You have only to open your whole soul to it . " But his eager spirit made such peaceful preoccupation and such economy of power impossible to him . He knew what was good for his peace , he perfectly recognised in which fields of ...
... light . You have only to open your whole soul to it . " But his eager spirit made such peaceful preoccupation and such economy of power impossible to him . He knew what was good for his peace , he perfectly recognised in which fields of ...
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... light was to him the same , and never was there a man who lived more largely in the contem- plation of sky and cloud , of lake and flowers and hills . The physical 1 Vol . XXXIV . 2 Bright , 1127 ; Ruskin , 813 . 3 The first to be ...
... light was to him the same , and never was there a man who lived more largely in the contem- plation of sky and cloud , of lake and flowers and hills . The physical 1 Vol . XXXIV . 2 Bright , 1127 ; Ruskin , 813 . 3 The first to be ...
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... light . There were , of course , as he records in his lectures , 2 days of serene weather and of wholesome storm , and at such times his mental moods responded to the genial touch . These were times when he was able , as he says in the ...
... light . There were , of course , as he records in his lectures , 2 days of serene weather and of wholesome storm , and at such times his mental moods responded to the genial touch . These were times when he was able , as he says in the ...
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... light . " 3 Ruskin's physician had ordered change of air and foreign travel , but he stayed on for some months yet at Herne Hill - busying himself with the May - day Festival at Whitelands College , with the parts of Proserpina ...
... light . " 3 Ruskin's physician had ordered change of air and foreign travel , but he stayed on for some months yet at Herne Hill - busying himself with the May - day Festival at Whitelands College , with the parts of Proserpina ...
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... lights round apse , and that no interior can be perfect with less than five . I do not know if there are good examples of seven . The mimicked Last Judgment ' — M. Viollet - le - Duc's - is very carefully vile , and the whole west front ...
... lights round apse , and that no interior can be perfect with less than five . I do not know if there are good examples of seven . The mimicked Last Judgment ' — M. Viollet - le - Duc's - is very carefully vile , and the whole west front ...
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Page lxvi - And the city lieth foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he measured the city with the reed, twelve thousand furlongs. The length, and the breadth, and the height of it are equal.
Page 490 - You owe this strange intelligence, or why Upon this blasted heath you stop our way With such prophetic greeting. Speak, I charge you. WITCHES vanish. BAN. The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, And these are of them.
Page 249 - For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
Page 488 - I am he that liveth and was dead : and behold, I am alive for evermore : and have the keys of hell and of death.
Page 457 - He giveth snow like wool : He scattereth the hoarfrost like ashes. He casteth forth his ice like morsels : Who can stand before his cold? He sendeth out his word, and melteth them: He causeth his wind to blow, and the waters flow.
Page 515 - Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens, from the mountains of the leopards.
Page 382 - Of the blind vapor, opened to my view Glory beyond all glory ever seen By waking sense or by the dreaming soul ! The appearance, instantaneously disclosed, Was of a mighty city — boldly say A wilderness of building, sinking far And self-withdrawn into a...
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Page 249 - Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
Page 417 - Or will you, youths of England, make your country again a royal throne of kings ; a sceptred isle, for all the world a source of light, a centre of peace ; mistress of Learning and of the Arts ; — faithful guardian of great memories in the midst of irreverent and ephemeral visions ; — faithful servant of time-tried principles, under temptation from fond experiments and licentious desires ; and, amidst the cruel and clamorous jealousies of the nations, worshipped in her strange valour, of goodwill...