 | 1854 - 686 pages
...lifted on a blue field, covered with stars, until at la^t, as if it ecstasy, the crest's of the archer break into a marble foam, and toss themselves far into the blue >!:•,. in II ishes and wreaths of sculptured spray, as if the breakers on the Lido shore had been... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1853 - 628 pages
...Greek horses are seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength, and the St. Mark's lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstacy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam, and toss themselves far into the blue sky,... | |
 | 1853 - 1042 pages
...Greek horses are seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength, and the St. Mark's lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as...sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst. ' Between that grim cathedral of England and this, what an interval ! There is a type of it in the... | |
 | Ecclesiological society - 1853 - 942 pages
...blazing in their breadth of golden strength, and the S. Mark's lion lifted on a blue field covered witli stars, until at last, as if in ecstasy, the crests...sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst. " Between that grim cathedral of England and this, what an interval! There is a type of it in the very... | |
 | Church architecture - 1853 - 512 pages
...Greek horses are seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength, and the S. Mark's lion lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in eestasy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam, and toss themselves far into the blue sky... | |
 | John Ruskin - Architecture - 1853 - 456 pages
...Greek horses are seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength, and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstacy, the crests of the arches break into a marble foam, and toss themselves far into the blue sky... | |
 | Crystal palace - 1854 - 250 pages
...Greek horses are seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength ; and the St. Mark's lion lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as...had inlaid them with coral and amethyst." Byzantine art had this merit in it, that it contained a principle of life. Its decoration, harsh and ungainly... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1854 - 520 pages
...Greek horses are seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength, and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as...shore had been frost-bound before they fell, and the sea- nymphs had inlaid them with coral and amethyst. " Between that grim cathedral of England and this,... | |
 | 1854 - 632 pages
...lifted on a blue field, covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstasy, the crests of the archer break into a marble foam, ' and toss themselves far...and the sea-nymphs had inlaid them, with coral and amethysts. " Between that grim cathedral of England and this, what an interval ! There is a type of... | |
 | Charles Williams - Alps - 1854 - 668 pages
...Greek horses are" seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength, and the St. Mark's Lion, lifted on a blue field, covered with stars, until at last, as...and wreaths of sculptured spray, as if the breakers of the Lido shore had been first bound before they fell, and the sea-nymphs had inlaid them with coral... | |
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... a confusion of delight, amidst which the breasts of the Greek horses are seen blazing in their breadth of golden strength, and the St Mark's lion, lifted on a blue field covered with stars, until at last, as if in ecstasy, the crests of the arches... 
