 | George Keate - Margate (England) - 1790 - 388 pages
...these great cathedrals of the earth, with their gates of rock, pavements of cloud, choirs of stream and stone, altars of snow, and vaults of purple traversed by the continual stars, — of these, as we have seen, it was written, nor long ago, by one of the best of the poor human race... | |
 | Universalism - 1860 - 444 pages
...also "the great cathedrals of the earth, their gates of rock, pavements of cloud, choirs of stream and stone, altars of snow, and vaults of purple traversed by the continual stars, quiet in pale cloisters for the thinker, glorious in holiness for the worshipper." We welcome this... | |
 | John Ruskin - Aesthetics - 1856 - 568 pages
...these great cathedrals of the earth, with their gates of rock, pavements of cloud, choirs of stream and stone, altars of snow, and vaults of purple traversed by the continual stars, — of these, as we have seen, it was written, nor long ago, by one of the best of the poor human race... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - New Hampshire - 1859 - 438 pages
...these great cathedrals of the earth, with their gates of rock, pavements of cloud, choirs of stream and stone, altars of snow, and vaults of purple, traversed by the continual stars, — of these, as we have seen, it was written, nor long ai/o, by one of the best of the poor hitman... | |
 | John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill - Aesthetics - 1859 - 504 pages
...these great cathedrals of the earth, with their gates of rock, pavements of cloud, choirs of stream and stone, altars of snow, and vaults of purple traversed by the continual stars, — of these, as we have seen, it was written, nor long ago, by one of the best of the poor human race... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1859 - 504 pages
...these great cathedrals of the earth, with their gates of rock, pavements of cloud, choirs of stream and stone, altars of snow, and vaults of purple traversed by the continual stars,—of these, as we have seen, it was written, nor long ago, by one of the best of the poor human... | |
 | Peter Bayne - Authors, English - 1860 - 432 pages
...mountains, mark attentively as he points out " their gates of rock, pavements of cloud, choirs of stream and stone, altars of snow, and vaults of purple traversed by the continual stars," and you conclude that there he must always have worshipped. But when you have passed with him from... | |
 | Thomas Starr King - White Mountains - 1860 - 436 pages
...these, great cathedrals of the earth, with their gates of rock, pavements of cloud, choirs of stream and stone, altars of snow, and vaults of purple, traversed by the continual stars, — of Oiese, as we have seen, it was written, nor long ago, by one of the best of the poor human race... | |
 | John Ruskin - 1868 - 506 pages
...these great cathedrals of the earth, with their gates of rock, pavements of cloud, choirs of stream and stone, altars of snow, and vaults of purple traversed by the continual stars, — of these, as we have seen, it was written, not long ago, by one of the best of the poor human race... | |
 | John Pentland Mahaffy - Civilization - 1869 - 328 pages
...are the great cathedrals of the earth, with their gates of rock, pavements of cloud, choirs of stream and stone, altars of snow, and vaults of purple traversed by the continual stars." The beauty, then, of the mountains cannot in any way be denied. But when we come to ask what benefit... | |
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And of these great cathedrals of the earth, with their gates of rock, pavements of cloud, choirs of stream and stone, altars of snow, and vaults of purple traversed by the continual stars... 
