 Let us, for a moment, try to raise ourselves even above the level of their flight, and imagine the Mediterranean lying beneath us like an irregular lake, and all its ancient promontories sleeping in the sun...  The Ecclesiologist - Page 4101853Full view - About this book
 | 1854 - 428 pages
...swallow see far off, as they lean npon the siroeeo wind. Let ns, for a moment, try to raise onrselves even above the level of their flight, and imagine the Mediterranean lying beneath ns like an irregnlar lake, and all its aneient promontories sleeping in the snn ; here and there an... | |
 | Crystal palace - 1854 - 250 pages
...gentian and of the olive which the stork and the swallow see far off, as they lean upon the sirocco wind. Let us, for a moment, try to raise ourselves even...sleeping in the sun ; here and there an angry spot of thunder—a gray stain of storm—moving upon the burning field; and there a fixed wreath of white... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1854 - 608 pages
...the stork and the swallow see fur off, as they lean upon the sirocco wind. Let us fur a moment try 'o raise ourselves even above the level of their flight,...the sun : here and there an angry spot of thunder, a gray stain of storm, moving upon the burning field ; and here and there a fixed wreath of white volcano... | |
 | 1854 - 632 pages
...gentian and of the olive which the stork and the swallow see far off, as they lean upon the sirocco wind. Let us for a moment try to raise ourselves even above...Mediterranean lying beneath us like an irregular lake, and nil its ancient promontories sleeping in the sun : here and there an angry spot of thunder, a grey... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1854 - 104 pages
...gentian and of the olive which the stork and the swallow see far off, as they lean upon the sirocco wind. Let us, for a moment, try to raise ourselves even above the level of their flight, and imagine the Mediterannean lying beneath us like an irregular lake, and all its ancient promontories sleeping in... | |
 | Peter Bayne - Authors, English - 1860 - 432 pages
...and of the olive, which the stork and the swallow see far oif, as they lean upon the sirocco wind. Let us for a moment try to raise ourselves even above...the sun: here and there an angry spot of thunder, a gray stain of storm, moving upon the burning field; and here and there a fixed wreath of white volcano... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...gentian and of the olive which the stork and the swallow see far off as they lean upon the sirocco wind. Let us, for a moment, try to raise ourselves even...the sun : here and there an angry spot of thunder, a grej stain of storm, moving upon the burning field, and here and there a fixed wreath of white volcano... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1871 - 470 pages
...gentian and of the olive which the stork and the swallow see far off, as they lean upon the sirocco wind. Let us, for a moment, try to raise ourselves even...lake, and all its ancient promontories sleeping in the eun : here and there an angry spot of thunder, a grey stain of 4—2 storm, moving upon the burning... | |
 | William Swinton - Readers - 1883 - 504 pages
...and of the olive which the stork and the swallow see far off, as they lean upon the sirocco wind. 3. Let us, for a moment, try to raise ourselves even...the sun ; here and there an angry spot of thunder, a gray stain of storm, moving upon the burning field ; and here and there a fixed wreath of white volcano... | |
 | William Swinton - 1883 - 492 pages
...and of the olive which the stork and the swallow see far off, as they lean upon the sirocco-wind. 3. Let us, for a moment, try to raise ourselves even...the sun; here and there an angry spot of thunder, a gray stain of storm, moving upon the burning field ; and here and there a fixed wreath of white volcano-smoke,... | |
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