 I look into the eyes of the caged tiger, and on the scaly train of the crocodile, stretched on the sands of the river that has mirrored a hundred dynasties. I stroll through Rhenish vineyards, I sit under Roman arches, I walk the streets of once buried...  Soundings from the Atlantic - Page 154by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1864 - 468 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Anna Verona Dorris - Public schools - 1928 - 504 pages
...are now commonly used were perfected by Oliver Wendell Holmes, the American essayist and poet. ... I stroll through Rhenish vineyards, I sit under Roman...I am looking down upon Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives.1 Use of the stereograph and stereoscope. The stereograph and the motion-picture film are probably... | |
 | Joan Burbick - History - 1994 - 368 pages
...and trace the veinings of a leaf so delicately wrought in the paintings not made with hands, that 1 can almost see its down and the green aphis that sucks...I am looking down upon Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives.37 Ironically, the journey through the stereoscopic image makes matter of little consequence... | |
 | Simon Penny - Social Science - 1995 - 312 pages
...the experience of watching stereographic photographs with a special viewing device, the stereoscope: "I pass, in a moment, from the banks of the Charles...I am looking down upon Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives."6 As these examples demonstrate, the quest for immersive experience is a cultural topos, which... | |
 | Nicholas Mirzoeff - Art and society - 1999 - 566 pages
...the body behind us and sail away into one strange scene after another, like disembodied spirits.... I leave my outward frame in the arm-chair at my table,...looking down upon Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives" (Batchen 1996: 26) Holmes found himself in a similar virtual space to that experienced by Goethe and... | |
 | Martin Lister - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 424 pages
...contemporary response to the stereoscope's image and the sense of disembodiment that it created: '[I] leave my outward frame in the arm-chair at my table,...looking down upon Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives' (Holmes 1859, quoted in Batchen 1998: 275-6). The three-dimensionalisation of photography which the... | |
 | Nicholas Mirzoeff - Art - 2002 - 766 pages
...of Baalbec, - mightiest masses of quarried rock that man has lifted into the air. ... [I] leave mv outward frame in the armchair at my table, while in...looking down upon Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives. Here we have a description ol an earlv nineteenth-century teclmology of seeing that would appear to... | |
 | Martin Lister - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2003 - 166 pages
...the sense of disemhodiment that it created: '[l] leave my outward frame in the arm-chair at my tahle, while in spirit I am looking down upon Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives' (Hohnes 1859. quoted in Baichen 1998: 275-6). The three- dimensionalisati on of photography which the... | |
 | Vanessa Toulmin, Simon Popple - Art - 2005 - 280 pages
...on the rush of wasteful cataracts. I pass, in a moment, from the banks of the Charles to the fords of the Jordan, and leave my outward frame in the armchair...I am looking down upon Jerusalem from the mount of Olives.23 Holmes' 'spirit' travel instantly crosses continents, and even human scale itself, to eliminate... | |
 | Ray Zone - Performing Arts - 2007 - 234 pages
...small library of glass and pasteboard!" wrote Holmes; "I creep over the vast features of Rameses. ... I pass, in a moment, from the banks of the Charles...looking down upon Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives." 19 The Vortex of Popular Consumption In 1850, Louis-Desire Blanquart-Evrard had brought to market a... | |
 | Barbara Levine, Kirsten Jensen - Architecture - 2007 - 216 pages
...of the three Titanic stones of the wall of Baalbec... and then l dive into some mass of foliage... and leave my outward frame in the arm-chair at my table, while in spirit l am looking down upon Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives. ln the mid-nineteenth century, the wealthy... | |
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